Contents
1 General Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Steen Brøndsted Nielsen and Jean Ann Wyer
2 Introduction and New Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Steen Brøndsted Nielsen
3 Experimental Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Jean Ann Wyer
4 Theoretical Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Marius Wanko and Angel Rubio
5 Photo-initiated Dynamics and Spectroscopy of the Deprotonated
Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anastasia V. Bochenkova and Lars H. Andersen
6 Fluorescence from Gas-Phase Biomolecular Ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Steen Brøndsted Nielsen
7 Spectroscopy of Ferric Heme and Protoporphyrin IX Ions
In Vacuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Jean Ann Wyer and Steen Brøndsted Nielsen
8 UV–Visible Absorption Spectroscopy of Protein Ions . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Rodolphe Antoine and Philippe Dugourd
9 Excited-State Dynamics of Protonated Aromatic Amino Acids . . . 155
Claude Dedonder, Ge ´raldine Fe ´raud, and Christophe Jouvet
10 UV Photophysics of DNA and RNA Nucleotides In Vacuo:
Dissociation Channels, Time Scales, and Electronic Spectra . . . . . 181
J. Mathias Weber, Jesse Marcum, and Steen Brøndsted Nielsen
11 Action Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Peptide Ions with
Energetic Photons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Thomas Schlatho ¨lter and Ronnie Hoekstra
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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