Abstract: Excitation into the amide PT* transitions of N-methylacetamide (NMA) and small peptides such as di-and triglycine results in the photochemical conversion of the trans- amides into cis-amides with a high quantum yield. The cis form of NMA is easily monitored since its amide 11 UV Raman cross section is ca. IO-fold larger than that of the trans peptide with 220-nm excitation. We can detect the ca. 1.5% Boltzmann population of the cis form of ...
[Bushweller, C. Hackett; Fleischman, Stephen H.; Grady, Gilbert L.; McGoff, Paul; Rithner, Christopher D.; et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982 , vol. 104, # 23 p. 6224 - 6236]