Background: Thylakoids and chloroplasts harbor several vital metabolic processes, but are
most importantly associated with photosynthesis. The undisturbed functioning of this process …

The theoretical description of the initial steps in photosynthesis has gained increasing
importance over the past few years. This is caused by more and more structural data …

While density functional theory (DFT) has been proven to be extremely useful for the
prediction of thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties of molecules, to date most …

Bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchl a) and chlorophyll a (Chl a) play important roles as light
absorbers in photosynthetic antennae and participate in the initial charge-separation steps …

Phytol, a C20 alcohol esterifying the C-173 propionate, and Mg2+ ion chelated in the central
cavity, are conservative structural constituents of chlorophylls. To evaluate their …

Background: In addition to the considerable number of different chlorophyll structures
originated naturally, prominent research is made to produce new specific semisynthetic …

Chlorophyll (Mg-Chl) and its derivatives, zinc chlorophyll (Zn-Chl), copper chlorophyll (Cu-
Chl), pheophytin (Pheo), pheophorbide (Pheid), and zinc chlorophyllide (Zn-Chld), were …

Chlorophyll a (Chl a), an amphipathic porphyrin, was employed as natural photosensitizer
for photodynamic therapy applications. Due to its lacking solubility in water and high …

The synthesis and assembly of functioning photosynthetic complexes in chloroplasts
developing from etioplasts during the de-etiolation of angiosperm seedlings are imperative …

Chlorophylls, owing to their adjustable π-electron system and intense, well-separated
electronic transitions, can serve as convenient intrinsic spectroscopic probes of ligand …