Magnetophotoselection in the Investigation of Excitonically Coupled Chromophores: The Case of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sample Preparation
2.2. TR-EPR Experiments
2.3. Spectral Analysis
2.4. Excitonic Coupling Calculation
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Sample Availability
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Solvent | |D| (mT) | |E| (mT) | px | py | pz | ωm (°) | φm (°) | cP (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MeTHF | 30.4 | 4.3 | 0.31 | 0.56 | 0.13 | 90 | 65 | 63 |
EtOH:MeOH 3:2 | 29.5 | 3.8 | 0.31 | 0.57 | 0.12 | 90 | 54 | 64 |
λ (nm) | |D| (mT) | |E| (mT) | px | py | pz | ωex (°) | φex (°) | cP (%) | W (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
658 | 30.9 | 3.65 | 0.29 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 76 | 30 | 57 | 100 |
675 | 30.9 | 3.65 | 0.29 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 52 | 72 | 57 | 64 |
30.9 | 3.65 | 0.29 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 76 | 30 | 57 | 36 |
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Ciuti, S.; Agostini, A.; Barbon, A.; Bortolus, M.; Paulsen, H.; Di Valentin, M.; Carbonera, D. Magnetophotoselection in the Investigation of Excitonically Coupled Chromophores: The Case of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein. Molecules 2022, 27, 3654. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123654
Ciuti S, Agostini A, Barbon A, Bortolus M, Paulsen H, Di Valentin M, Carbonera D. Magnetophotoselection in the Investigation of Excitonically Coupled Chromophores: The Case of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein. Molecules. 2022; 27(12):3654. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123654
Chicago/Turabian StyleCiuti, Susanna, Alessandro Agostini, Antonio Barbon, Marco Bortolus, Harald Paulsen, Marilena Di Valentin, and Donatella Carbonera. 2022. "Magnetophotoselection in the Investigation of Excitonically Coupled Chromophores: The Case of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein" Molecules 27, no. 12: 3654. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123654