Self-assembly of functionally “inverse” zinc chlorins—31-hydroxy and 131keto groups, which are functionally essential in the bacteriochlorophylls c, d, and e, have been interchanged—is possible in nonpolar solvents (see schematic representation below). This result sets structural conditions for the formation of large aggregates similar to those formed by bacteriochlorophylls in vitro and in light-harvesting antenna systems of photosynthetic bacteria.
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