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THIS note presents results from a neodymium laser flash spectroscopy study of bovine rod outer segments (ROS), the only chromophore of which is rhodopsin. Previously unreported transients are interpreted in terms of a charge-transfer excited state which gives rise to radicals and/or triplets.
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BENSASSON, R., LAND, E. & TRUSCOTT, T. Nanosecond flash photolysis of rhodopsin. Nature 258, 768–770 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258768a0
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