Abstract

Studies of primary charge separation in photosynthetic reaction centres have largely been confined to the reaction centres of purple bacteria such as Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodopseudomonas Viridis . Although reaction centres (RC's) from purple bacteria were first isolated 23 years ago, and despite the solution of their crystal structures, the precise mechanism of primary radical pair formation remains the subject of much contention.

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