Routes to Functional Porphyrin Assemblies (Molecular Complexes, Covalent Redox Pairs, and Reactive Domains in Vesicles)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List Of Contributors XI
5. Section I. General
6. An Historical Survey of Porphyrins, their Related Spectra, and their Interpretation 3
7. Routes to Functional Porphyrin Assemblies (Molecular Complexes, Covalent Redox Pairs, and Reactive Domains in Vesicles) 19
8. Organism Dependent Pathways of Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis 43
9. Section II. Porphyrins And Metalloporphyrins
10. Transient Absorption Spectra and Excited State Kinetics of Transition Metal Porphyrins 63
11. Metal Complexes of Tetrapyrrole Ligands. XXXVII. Structure and Optical Spectra of Sandwich-Like Lanthanoid Porphyrins 91
12. Excited State Electron Transfer of Carbonyl[mesotetra(p-tolyl) porphyrinato osmium(II)]Complexes. One and Two Electron Photoredox Processes 107
13. Photophysical Properties of Hematoporphyrin and its Derivatives and their Use in Tumor Phototherapy 121
14. Optical Properties of Ferriheme-Quinidine Complexes 137
15. Resonance Raman Studies of Haemoglobin 157
16. Optical Properties of Heme Bound to the Central Exon Fragment of Globins and to Corresponding Fragments in Cytochromes 175
17. Heme Configuration in Cytochrome c 203
18. Correlation between Near-Infrared, ESR Spectra and Oxidation- Reduction Potentials in Low-Spin Heme Proteins 227
19. Circular Dichroism Contributions of Heme-Heme and Chlorophyll- Chlorophyll Interactions 239
20. Optical Properties of Conjugated Proteins which Transport Haem, Porphyrins and Bilirubin 261
21. Section III. Bile Pigments
22. Light Absorption of Bilatrienes-abc and 2,3-Dihydrobilatrienes-abc 281
23. Mechanism of Phototherapy of Neonatal Jaundice. Regiospecific Photoisomerization of Bilirubins 297
24. Effects of Environment on Photophysical Processes of Bilirubin 311
25. The Molecular Model of Phytochrome Deduced from Optical Probes 331
26. Phytochrome, the Visual Pigment of Plants: Chromophore Structure and Chemistry of Photoconversion 349
27. Recent Advances in the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Small, Large, and Native Oat Phytochromes 367
28. Contents IX Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depolarisation of Phycocyanins in Different States of Aggregation 383
29. The Influence of an External Electrical Charge on the Circular Dichroism of Chromopeptides from Phycocyanin 397
30. Bilins and Bilin-Protein Linkages in Phycobili proteins: Structural and Spectroscopic Studies 411
31. Structural Organization of Tetrapyrrole Pigments in Light- Harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes 425
32. The Crystal and Molecular Structure of C-Phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus and its Implications for Function and Evolution 445
33. Section IV. Chlorophylls
34. Optical Spectra of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. Theoretical and Experimental Aspects 453
35. Circular Dichroism of Chlorophylls in Protein Complexes from Chloroplasts of Higher Plants: A Critical Assessment 475
36. Optical Properties and Structure of Chlorophyll RC I 489
37. Long-Wavelength Absorbing Forms of BacteriochlorophylIs. II. Structural Requirements for Formation in Triton X-100 Micelles and in Aqueous Methanol and Acetone 507
38. Concluding Remarks 523
39. Index of Contributors 525
40. Subject Index 527
41. Backmatter 537