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To review the photophysical principles governing light absorption and electronic excitation energy transfer across multichromophoric antenna architectures in photosynthetic organisms.

July 18, 2016Chemical ReviewsOpen Access

Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of Photosynthetic Organisms

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TMTihana MirkovicUniversity of Toronto EOEvgeny E. OstroumovQuEra Computing (United States)JAJessica M. AnnaUniversity of Pittsburgh

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Review reveals mechanisms of excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic antenna complexes, highlighting how pigment arrangements optimize biological solar light harvesting.

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To review the photophysical principles governing light absorption and electronic excitation energy transfer across multichromophoric antenna architectures in photosynthetic organisms.
Examined the optical properties of individual light-harvesting chromophores and their cooperative pigment-pigment and pigment-protein interactions.
Evaluated energy landscape dynamics and coupling strengths utilizing purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes as a primary mechanistic model.
Electronic excitation energy transfer efficiency is governed by the precise spatial distribution, energetic landscape, and intermolecular coupling strength of constituent chromophores.
Light-harvesting complexes in purple bacteria demonstrate how cooperative pigment arrangements optimize exciton funneling directly toward reaction centers.
Diverse photosynthetic organisms exhibit tailored antenna variations evolved to maximize energy-transfer pathways across distinct ecological light conditions.

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Mirkovic et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de7c73bf539e2270558b46 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00002

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Review reveals mechanisms of excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic antenna complexes, highlighting how pigment arrangements optimize biological solar light harvesting.

Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of Photosynthetic Organisms

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