Toward a computational photobiology*
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چکیده
In this paper, we discuss the results of our recent studies on the molecular mechanism, which stand at the basis of the photochemical processes occurring in photobiological systems. These results are obtained using modern, robust, and fairly accurate high-level quantum chemical methods.
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