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SUBMITTER: Westlake BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3102414 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Westlake Brittany C BC Brennaman M Kyle MK Concepcion Javier J JJ Paul Jared J JJ Bettis Stephanie E SE Hampton Shaun D SD Miller Stephen A SA Lebedeva Natalia V NV Forbes Malcolm D E MD Moran Andrew M AM Meyer Thomas J TJ Papanikolas John M JM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110509 21
The simultaneous, concerted transfer of electrons and protons--electron-proton transfer (EPT)--is an important mechanism utilized in chemistry and biology to avoid high energy intermediates. There are many examples of thermally activated EPT in ground-state reactions and in excited states following photoexcitation and thermal relaxation. Here we report application of ultrafast excitation with absorption and Raman monitoring to detect a photochemically driven EPT process (photo-EPT). In this proc ...[more]