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Biophysical Journal 20: 377-382 (1977)
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Electronic structure of polyenes related to the visual chromophore. A simple model for the observed band shapes.

R Hemley and B E Kohler

ABSTRACT

A model is presented which attributes the widths of absorption bands in carotenoids to conformational disorder induced by the beta-ionylidene moiety. With reasonable parameter choices, the model gives a good quantitative fit to the spectra observed for four carotenoids and at the same time accounts for the lack of structure in the long-wavelength absorption of retinal.






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