Abstract

Site-selection spectroscopy has been found as a powerful technique for studying large organic molecules (e.g. porphyrins) as well as more complex systems (e.g. chlorophyll in membranes). In the last decade an extraordinary attention has been dedicated to spectral investigations of photosynthetic systems. In vivo photosynthetic systems are very large and complex objects containing chlorophylls, proteins, membranes,… in some since now not completely known functional and structural organization. Therefore it seems to be very fruitful to start a study on some well defined model photosynthetic systems (e.g. chlorophyll-like molecule bonded to a synthetic sequential polypeptide).

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