Computational Analysis of Chlorophyll Structure and UV-Vis Spectra: A Student Research Project on the Spectroscopy of Natural Complexes

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• This paper was submitted as a contribution representing work done primarily by undergraduate researchers; Dorota Kukier and Anna Gasior, supervised by Magdalena Makarska-Bialokoz and Agnieszka Kaczor.
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