Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy in Biomolecules: Active Site Dynamics of Heme Proteins
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’School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Box 37-1 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois 61 801 ; *Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305; 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003; and 4Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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