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Upon excitation with ultraviolet (UV) light at 340 nm, HBT undergoes ultrafast intramolecular proton transfer, which causes the emission to red-shift to 525 nm. Carbon atoms are green, oxygen is red, nitrogen is blue, sulfur is yellow and hydrogens are white.
