Photosynthetic model compounds

The polyimide-base PR system [79,80] was designed on the premise that porphyrin-electron acceptor (quinones or imide moieties) systems are well-known model compounds for photosynthetic processes and exhibit very interesting charge transfer properties [81], A high quantum yield of charge separation can be achieved in these systems. Polyimides are found to be photoconductive and allow charge transport [82], Furthermore, polyimides possess high Tg and therefore, the electric field-induced dipole orientation can be fixed after imidization [83],... 

Porphyrin and its derivatives are well-known model compounds for photosynthetic processes that involve charge separation [87], A zinc porphyrin, a copper porphyrin, and a zinc phthalocyanine (Pc) are chosen and incorporated into PPV backbones. Four polymers are synthesized via the Heck polycondensation [88], The incorporation of these metal complex moieties in polymers XI to XIII is manifested by the appearance of Q bands from metalloporphyrin and zinc Pc... 

In the natural photosynthetic reaction center, ubiquinones (QA and QB), which are organized in the protein matrix, are used as electron acceptors. Thus, covalently and non-covalently linked porphyrin-quinone dyads constitute one of the most extensively investigated photosynthetic models, in which the fast photoinduced electron transfer from the porphyrin singlet excited state to the quinone occurs to produce the CS state, mimicking well the photo synthetic electron transfer [45-47]. However, the CR rates of the CS state of porphyrin-quinone dyads are also fast and the CS lifetimes are mostly of the order of picoseconds or subnanoseconds in solution [45-47]. A three-dimensional it-compound, C60, is super-... 

The situation in the photosynthetic reaction center can be mimicked by the dianthryl model compounds. In BA with perpendicular ground state conformation the interaction is small enough for charge separation/symmetry breaking to... 

Porphyrins as model compounds for photosynthetic investigations, syntheses of 81YGK909. 

Topics which have formed the subjects of reviews this year include excited state chemistry within zeolites, photoredox reactions in organic synthesis, selectivity control in one-electron reduction, the photochemistry of fullerenes, photochemical P-450 oxygenation of cyclohexene with water sensitized by dihydroxy-coordinated (tetraphenylporphyrinato)antimony(V) hexafluorophosphate, bio-mimetic radical polycyclisations of isoprenoid polyalkenes initiated by photo-induced electron transfer, photoinduced electron transfer involving C o/CjoJ comparisons between the photoinduced electron transfer reactions of 50 and aromatic carbonyl compounds, recent advances in the chemistry of pyrrolidino-fullerenes, ° photoinduced electron transfer in donor-linked fullerenes," supra-molecular model systems,and within dendrimer architecture,photoinduced electron transfer reactions of homoquinones, amines, and azo compounds, photoinduced reactions of five-membered monoheterocyclic compounds of the indigo group, photochemical and polymerisation reactions in solid Qo, photo- and redox-active [2]rotaxanes and [2]catenanes, ° reactions of sulfides and sulfenic acid derivatives with 02( Ag), photoprocesses of sulfoxides and related compounds, semiconductor photocatalysts,chemical fixation and photoreduction of carbon dioxide by metal phthalocyanines, and multiporphyrins as photosynthetic models. 

MODEL COMPOUND STUDIES OF PIGMENTS INVOLVED IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY CONVERSION INFRARED (IR)-SPECTRO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF CHLOROPHYLLS AND PHEOPHYTINS... 

Model Compound Studies of Pigments Involved in Photosynthetic Energy Conversion ... 

Araki K, Toma HE (2009) Supramolecular porphyrin model compounds for cytochrome p-450, cytochrome-c oxidase and photosynthetic systems. In Merce ALR, Felcman J, Recio MAE (eds) Molecular and supramolecular bioinorganic chemistry applications in medical sciences. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp 83-136... 

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