Ultrafast nonradiative relaxation channels of tryptophan

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1928-1932

  Ovejas, Virginia ^a   Fernández Fernández, Marta ^a   Montero, Raúl ^a   Castaño, Fernando ^a   Longarte, Asier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

dynamics; femtosecond; nonadiabatic; nonradiative; photochemistry; photophysics; relaxation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMINO ACIDS; DYNAMICS; IONIZATION OF GASES; LANTHANUM; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; FEMTOSECONDS; NON ADIABATIC INTERACTIONS; NON-ADIABATIC; NON-RADIATIVE; NON-RADIATIVE RELAXATION; RELAXATION; UV ABSORPTION SPECTRUM;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84879227411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400810j     Document Type: Article

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