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ArticleNature communications2014

Dynamic localization of electronic excitation in photosynthetic complexes revealed with chiral two-dimensional spectroscopy.

Andrew F Fidler, Ved P Singh, Phillip D Long, Peter D Dahlberg, Gregory S Engel

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Article in Nature communications, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew F FidlerDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Ved P SinghDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Phillip D LongProgram in the Biophysical Sciences, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Peter D DahlbergProgram in the Biophysical Sciences, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Gregory S EngelDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago - Renewal 0T32EB009412 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ENGEL, GREGORY S, SOSNICK, TOBIN R · 2009 to 2023
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NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB009412
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Time-resolved ultrafast optical probes of chiral dynamics provide a new window allowing us to explore how interactions with such structured environments drive electronic dynamics. Incorporating optical activity into time-resolved spectroscopies has proven challenging because of the small signal and large achiral background. Here we demonstrate that two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy can be adapted to detect chiral signals and that these signals reveal how excitations delocalize and contract following excitation. We dynamically probe the evolution of chiral electronic structure in the light-harvesting complex 2 of purple bacteria following photoexcitation by creating a chiral two-dimensional mapping. The dynamics of the chiral two-dimensional signal directly reports on changes in the degree of delocalization of the excitonic states following photoexcitation. The mechanism of energy transfer in this system may enhance transfer probability because of the coherent coupling among chromophores while suppressing fluorescence that arises from populating delocalized states. This generally applicable spectroscopy will provide an incisive tool to probe ultrafast transient molecular fluctuations that are obscured in non-chiral experiments.

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PhotosynthesisBacterial ProteinsLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesRhodobacter sphaeroidesSpectrum AnalysisB800-850 light-harvesting complex, bacteriaBacterial ProteinsLight-Harvesting Protein Complexes

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PMCPMC3976994
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