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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 22, 期 34, 页码 19022-19032出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03276j
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- EPSRC [EP/L005646/1, EP/L005697/2]
- EPSRC [EP/L005697/2, EP/L005646/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Firefly bioluminescence is exploited widely in imaging in the biochemical and biomedical sciences; however, our fundamental understanding of the electronic structure and relaxation processes of the oxyluciferin that emits the light is still rudimentary. Here, we employ photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations to investigate the electronic structure and relaxation of a series of model oxyluciferin anions. We find that changing the deprotonation site has a dramatic influence on the relaxation pathway following photoexcitation of higher lying electronically excited states. The keto form of the oxyluciferin anion is found to undergo internal conversion to the fluorescent S(1)state, whereas we find evidence to suggest that the enol and enolate forms undergo internal conversion to a dipole bound state, possiblyviathe fluorescent S(1)state. Partially resolved vibrational structure points towards the involvement of out-of-plane torsional motions in internal conversion to the dipole bound state, emphasising the combined electronic and structural role that the microenvironment plays in controlling the electronic relaxation pathway in the enzyme.
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