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Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

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The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 149))

Abstract

We present a critical scrutiny of the models for the primary charge separation process in bacterial photosynthesis in the light of recent experimental data and theoretical analysis. The sequential mechanisms are fraught with difficulties due to their incompatibility with magnetic data for the first observable radical pair in conjunction with the activationless nature of the electron transfer process. The implications of the unistep, superexchange mediated nonadiabatic electron transfer mechanism are examined.

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  1. School of Chemistry, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69 978, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    M. Bixon & Joshua Jortner

  2. Institut für Molekülphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 1000, Berlin 33, Germany

    M. Plato

  3. Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, Garching, Germany

    M. E. Michel-Beyerle

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Bixon, M., Jortner, J., Plato, M., Michel-Beyerle, M.E. (1988). Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. In: Breton, J., Verméglio, A. (eds) The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center. NATO ASI Series, vol 149. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0815-5_40

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