Light-Induced Triplet-Triplet Electron Resonance Spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: We present a new technique, light-induced triplet-triplet electron resonance spectroscopy (LITTER), which measures the dipolar interaction between two photoexcited triplet states, enabling both the distance and angular distributions between the two triplet moieties to be determined on a nanometer scale. This is demonstrated for a model bis-porphyrin peptide that renders dipolar traces with strong orientation selection effects. Using simulations and density functional theory calculations, we extract distance distributions and relative orientations of the porphyrin moieties, allowing the dominant conformation of the peptide in a frozen solution to be identified. LITTER removes the requirement of current light-induced electron spin resonance pulse dipolar spectroscopy techniques to have a per

SUBMITTER: Bertran A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016185 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature