Recent advances in experimental techniques to probe fast excited-state dynamics in biological molecules in the gas phase: Dynamics in nucleotides, amino acids and beyond

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 469, Issue 2159, 2013, Pages

  Staniforth, Michael ^a   Stavros, Vasilios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GAS PHASE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

BIOMOLECULES;

EID: 84888156801     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0458     Document Type: Review

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