Light energy, chemical work

Cells do work in converting light energy to synthesised chemicals and... 

In this work, we will review the optical, and to some extent, the electrochemical properties, of selected subfamilies of Ir(III) complexes. This will be done having in mind mainly (i) the actual interest in the manipulation and tuning of the photophysical properties of complexes playing as phosphorescence emitters, (ii) the possible use of Ir(III) centers as templating units for multicomponent arrays, particularly in view of charge separation (CS) schemes for the interconversion of light and chemical energy. 

The other new aspect of our work was that it provided the first detailed structure of the photosynthetic reaction center. Thus it helped to understand how light energy is converted into chemical energy in the primary process of photosynthesis. 

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