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Charge Delocalization in the Prosthetic Group of Visual Pigments

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THE visual pigment rhodopsin (I) consists of the prosthetic group 11-cis-retinal covalently bound to phosphatidyl ethanolamine in a protonated Schiff base1,2.

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PATEL, D. Charge Delocalization in the Prosthetic Group of Visual Pigments. Nature 224, 799–800 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224799a0

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