Published February 6, 1987
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Journal Article
Superexchange versus an intermediate BChl− mechanism in reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria
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Marcus, R. A.
Chicago
Abstract
Kinetic and singlet-triplet data are used to treat the mechanism of electron transfer for BChl*_2-BChl-BPh in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. The data favor a two-step transfer rather than a superexchange single step.
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© 1987 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Received 15 October 1986, in final form 18 December 1986. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support of this research by the National Science Foundation. The research was initiated while the author was a Leland J. Haworth Distinguished Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I am indebted to Dr. Norman Sutin and his colleagues for their gracious hospitality and many stimulating discussions. I am particularly indebted, too, to Dr. Jack Fajer of BNL, who called my attention to the experimental results in ref. [8], and to Drs. S. Boxer and W.W. Parsons for their helpful comments.Additional details
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