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Photoinduced Free Radicals of Visual Pigments in Solutions mobile at −196° C

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IN rigid solutions of visual pigments stabilized for studies of electron spin resonance (ESR) at the temperature of liquid nitrogen white irradiation creates free radicals with resonance patterns consisting of broad singlets1. We have obtained more refined information by providing solvents mobile at these low temperatures and by irradiation of the visual pigments with selected monochromatic beams rather than with white light.

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  1. Departments of Biochemistry and Neurology, New York Medical College, New York, New York, 10029

    ROBERT SACK

  2. Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973

    ROBERT SACK

  3. Medical Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973

    DONALD C. BORG

  4. Departments of Biochemistry and Neurology, New York Medical College, New York, New York, 10029

    SIMON FREED

  5. Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973

    SIMON FREED

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SACK, R., BORG, D. & FREED, S. Photoinduced Free Radicals of Visual Pigments in Solutions mobile at −196° C. Nature 235, 224–226 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235224a0

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