Picosecond kinetics of events leading to reaction center bacteriochlorophyll oxidation.
A transient absorption spectrum has been measured in Rhodopseudomonas spheroides R26 reaction centers. Its salient features indicate that both the bacteriopheophytin and bacteriochlorophyll chromophores play a role in the excited state. Decay of this state yields a rise time for oxidation of the reaction center complex of about 150 picoseconds.
Kaufmann
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Dutton
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Netzel
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Leigh
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Rentzepis
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