Our current understanding of the PSII reaction centre owes a great deal to comparisons to
the simpler and better understood, purple bacterial reaction centre. Here we provide an …

The pulse methods with which this review is concerned have been developed for
photosynthesis since 1955.(1) Mmost all primary processes are observable only by these …

The genesis of the exploration of electron transfer (ET) in the condensed phase dates back
to the origins of chemistry in the nineteenth century. In 1808 Humphry Davy observed [1] that …

The fundamental photochemical reaction of photosynthetic energy conversion, which
transforms the photon energy of light in chemical free energy, takes places in a membrane …

'Tunnelling'is the metaphorical name given to the process, possible in quantum mechanics,
but not in classical mechanics, whereby a particle can disappear from one side of a potential …

SOLAR energy can be used and stored by the efficient production of long-lived
photoinduced charge separation1–3—a state achieved in photosynthetic systems by the …

Photosynthetic organisms transform the energy of sunlight into chemical potential in a
specialized membrane-bound pigment-protein complex called the reaction center. Following …

The photoexcited triplet state and photosynthesis Page 1 Chemical Reviews Volume 78, Number
3 June 1978 The Photoexcited Triplet State and Photosynthesis'^ HAIM LEVANONt and JAMES …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

The initial electron transfer steps in the photosynthetic reaction center of the purple
bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides have been investigated by femtosecond time-resolved …