Direct observation of the (forbidden) S1 state in carotenoids
AUTOR(ES)
Polívka, Tomáš
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Carotenoids are involved in a variety of biological functions, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood, in part because of the long-standing difficulty in assigning the location of the first excited (S1) state. Here, we present a method for determining the energy of the forbidden S1 state, on the basis of ultrafast spectroscopy of the short lived level. Femtosecond transient absorption spectra and kinetics of the S1 → S2 transition revealed the location of the intermediate level in two carotenoid species involved in the xanthophyll cycle, zeaxanthin and violaxanthin, and yielded surprising implications regarding the mechanism of photoregulation in photosynthesis.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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