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Figure 4
The chemistry of photocleavage. Upon illumination, the photocages undergo a `light transition' into an excited state. Nonproductive events, such as fluorescence or nonradiative decay, can bring the molecule back to the ground state, greatly decreasing the quantum yield of cleavage. The dark reaction proceeds from the excited state through one or more intermediates. The dark reaction determines the rate of compound release and therefore the achievable time resolution.

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