Part I Light Energy Capture and Energy Transfer
1 Structure-Based Calculation of Pigment-Protein and
Excitonic Pigment-Pigment Coupling in Photosynthetic
Light-Harvesting Complexes ................................... 3
Frank Müh and Thomas Renger
2 Electron-Phonon and Exciton-Phonon Coupling in Light
Harvesting, Insights from Line-Narrowing Spectroscopies ..... 45
Jörg Pieper and Arvi Freiberg
3 Photosynthetic Energy Transfer and Charge Separation
in Higher Plants ............................................ 79
Tjaart P.J. Krüger, Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin, Elisabet
Romero, and Rienk van Grondelle
Part II Underlying Principles of Electron Transport
4 Tunneling in Electron Transport ............................ 121
Christopher C. Moser
5 Spin in Photosynthetic Electron Transport .................. 141
Isaac F. Céspedes-Camacho and Jörg Matysik
6 Energy Changes in Photosynthetic Electron Transport:
Probing Photosynthesis by Pulsed Photoacoustics ............ 171
David Mauzerall and Steven P. Mielke
Part III Separation and Stabilization of Charge
7 Mechanism of Primary Charge Separation in Photosynthetic
Reaction Centers ........................................... 193
Sergei Savikhin and Ryszard Jankowiak
8 Effects of Quast-equilibrium states on the Cinetics
Electron Transfer and Radical Pair Stabilisation in
Photosystem 1 .............................................. 241
Stefano Santabarbara, Robert Jennings, and Giuseppe
Zucchelli
9 Energetics of Cofactors in Photosynthetic Complexes:
Relationship Between Protein-Cofactor Interactions
and Midpoint Potentials .................................... 275
James P. Allen and JoAnn C. Williams
Part IV Donor Side Intermediates and Water Splitting
10 The Radical Intermediates of Photosystem II ................ 299
K.V. Lakshmi, Christopher S. Coates, Stuart Smith,
and Ruchira Chatterjee
11 Structure-Function Relationships in the Mn4CaO5 Water-
Splitting Cluster .......................................... 321
Jian-Ren Shen
12 Water and Oxygen Diffusion Pathways Within Photosystem II.
Computational Studies of Controlled Substrate Access
and Product Release ........................................ 351
Serguei Vassiliev and Doug Bruce
Part V Evolution of the Photosynthetic Apparatus
13 From Ionizing Radiation to Photosynthesis .................. 383
Alexander N. Melkozernov
14 Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Anoxygenic
Type I and Type II Reaction Centers ........................ 433
John F. Allen
Index ......................................................... 451
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