Characterization of 11-cis-retinal Schiff base dimers derived from the 12-s-cis and the 12-s-trans conformer
Abstract
The two conformers of 11-cis-retinal Schiff base, one derived from the 12-s-cis the other from the 12-s-trans geometry, are found from temperature dependent u.v. and circular dichroism spectroscopies to undergo aggregation to chiral dimers; force-field calculations reveal the surprisingly different geometries of the aggregates in agrement with the spectral data.