Bicycle-pedal model for the first step in the vision process

Trajectory Surface Hopping Approach to Nonadiabatic Molecular Collisions: The Reaction of H+ with D2

1971 • 1,567 citations

Molecular Basis of Visual Excitation

1968 • 1,002 citations

Quantum chemistry program exchange

1987 • 1,001 citations

Calculation of ground and excited state potential surfaces of conjugated molecules. I. Formulation and parametrization

1972 • 736 citations

Pre-Lumirhodopsin and the Bleaching of Visual Pigments

1963 • 520 citations

Semiclassical Theory of Electronic Transitions in Low Energy Atomic and Molecular Collisions Involving Several Nuclear Degrees of Freedom

1972 • 472 citations

Resonance Raman spectroscopy of rhodopsin in retinal disk membranes

1974 • 274 citations

Processing of optical data by organisms and by machines

1969 • 252 citations

Formation and Decay of Prelumirhodopsin at Room Temperatures

1972 • 249 citations

Calculation of .pi..pi.* excited state conformations and vibronic structure of retinal and related molecules

1974 • 206 citations

The photochemical and macromolecular aspects of vision

1967 • 160 citations

Conversion of a photon to an electrical signal by sudden polarisation in the N-retinylidene visual chromophore

1975 • 131 citations

The Structure and Spectra of the Chromophore of the Visual Pigments

1974 • 127 citations

Implications of Torsional Potential of Retinal Isomers for Visual Excitation

1971 • 126 citations

Molecular aspects of photoreceptor function

1975 • 114 citations

Semiclassical trajectory approach to photoisomerization

1975 • 101 citations

Photochemistry of Iodopsin

1967 • 87 citations

Isorhodopsin II: artificial photosensitive pigment formed from 9,13-dicis retinal.

1975 • 85 citations

Theoretical studies of the visual chromophore

1975 • 75 citations

Series of synthetic visual pigments from cattle opsin and homologs of retinal

1969 • 69 citations

Properties of 14-methylretinal, 13-desmethyl-14-methylretinal, and visual pigments formed therefrom

1974 • 61 citations

Molecular Mechanism for the Initial Process of Visual Excitation. I. Model of Photoisomerization in Rhodopsin and Its Theoretical Basis by a Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Adiabatic Potential

1975 • 41 citations

Triplet-sensitized cis-trans isomerization of the protonated Schiff base of retinal isomers

1975 • 24 citations

Orientation of Intermediates in the Bleaching of Shear-Oriented Rhodopsin

1973 • 23 citations

Proteins which bind polyenes and react with photons

1975 • 9 citations