Organisms of all domains of life use photoreceptor proteins to sense and respond to light.
The light-sensitivity of photoreceptor proteins arises from bound chromophores such as …

Chemical dynamics in proteins are discussed, with bacteriorhodopsin serving as a model
system. Ultrafast time-resolved methods used to probe the chemical dynamics of retinal …

Real-time investigations of the rearrangement of bonds during chemical transformations
require femtosecond temporal resolution, so that the atomic vibrations within the reacting …

This communication describes the discovery of air-stable and highly versatile B-protected
haloalkenylboronic acid building blocks for iterative cross-coupling. These reagents enable …

In this paper we use ab initio multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory to
establish the intrinsic photoisomerization path model of retinal chromophores. This is …

Fluorescent chromophores are optically active probe molecules with widespread
applications in chemistry and biology. Usually chromophores function in condensed matter …

We demonstrate that a “brute force” quantum chemical calculation based on an ab initio
multiconfigurational second order perturbation theory approach implemented in a quantum …

CASSCF quantum chemical calculations (including dynamics) have been used to
investigate the ultrafast photoisomerization of three symmetric cyanine dye models of …

A method to predict temperature and pressure-dependent rate coefficients for complex
bimolecular chemical activation and unimolecular dissociation reactions is described. A …

We show that the ab initio CASPT2//CASSCF strategy previously used to investigate the
ground and excited states of the chromophore of the vision receptor rhodopsin (Rh) in vacuo …