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Frontispiece: Direct Measurement of the Isomerization Barrier of the Isolated Retinal Chromophore
Author(s) -
Dilger Jonathan,
Musbat Lihi,
Sheves Mordechai,
Bochenkova Anastasia V.,
Clemmer David E.,
Toker Yoni
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201581661
Subject(s) - isomerization , chromophore , retinal , photochemistry , protonation , chemistry , opsin , rhodopsin , catalysis , biochemistry , organic chemistry , ion
Isomerization In their Communication on page 4748 ff., Y. Toker and co‐workers report the energy barrier for the isomerization of the retinal protonated Schiff base chromophore and show that it is significantly lower than that within opsin proteins.