UV Photoinduced Dynamics of Conformer-Resolved Aromatic Peptides

A detailed understanding of radiative and nonradiative processes in peptides containing an aromatic chromophore requires the knowledge of the nature and energy level of low-lying excited states that could be coupled to the bright 1ππ* excited state. Isolated aromatic amino acids and short peptides provide benchmark cases to study, at the molecular level, the photoinduced processes that govern their excited state dynamics. Recent advances in gas...