Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0

F Neese - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Version 5.0 of the ORCA quantum chemistry program suite was released in July
2021. ORCA 5.0 represents a major improvement over all previous versions of ORCA and …

Computational molecular spectroscopy

V Barone, S Alessandrini, M Biczysko… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Spectroscopic techniques can probe molecular systems non-invasively and investigate their
structure, properties and dynamics in different environments and physico-chemical …

Cryo-EM structures of LHCII in photo-active and photo-protecting states reveal allosteric regulation of light harvesting and excess energy dissipation

M Ruan, H Li, Y Zhang, R Zhao, J Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
The major light-harvesting complex of photosystem II (LHCII) has a dual regulatory function
in a process called non-photochemical quenching to avoid the formation of reactive oxygen …

Reaction Center Excitation in Photosystem II: From Multiscale Modeling to Functional Principles

A Sirohiwal, DA Pantazis - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Oxygenic photosynthesis is the fundamental energy-converting process that
utilizes sunlight to generate molecular oxygen and the organic compounds that sustain life …

Protein matrix control of reaction center excitation in photosystem II

A Sirohiwal, F Neese, DA Pantazis - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit pigment–protein complex that uses light-induced
charge separation to power oxygenic photosynthesis. Its reaction center chromophores …

Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW-Bethe–Salpeter Equation Calculations for Large Chromophoric Systems

A Förster, L Visscher - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The GW-Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) method is promising for calculating the low-lying
excitonic states of molecular systems. However, so far it has only been applied to rather …

[HTML][HTML] The atomistic modeling of light-harvesting complexes from the physical models to the computational protocol

E Cignoni, V Slama, L Cupellini… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The function of light-harvesting complexes is determined by a complex network of dynamic
interactions among all the different components: the aggregate of pigments, the protein, and …

Ultrafast dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting: Strategies for acclimation across organisms

OC Fiebig, D Harris, D Wang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthetic light harvesting exhibits near-unity quantum efficiency. The high efficiency is
achieved through a series of energy and charge transfer steps within a network of pigment …

Physicochemical, antioxidant properties of carotenoids and its optoelectronic and interaction studies with chlorophyll pigments

R Srivastava - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The physicochemical and antioxidant properties of seven carotenoids: antheraxanthin, β-
carotene, neoxanthin, peridinin, violaxanthin, xanthrophyll and zeaxanthin were studied by …

Triplet states in the reaction center of Photosystem II

S Bhattacharjee, F Neese, DA Pantazis - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In oxygenic photosynthesis sunlight is harvested and funneled as excitation energy into the
reaction center (RC) of Photosystem II (PSII), the site of primary charge separation that …