화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.103, No.13, 2319-2322, 1999
Chlorophyll a Franck-Condon factors and excitation energy transfer
The Franck-Condon factors for the S-1(Q(y),)<----> S-o electronic transition of chlorophyll (Chl) molecules are important for understanding excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes. Currently, there are two sets of Chi a Franck-Condon factors for over 40 modes, one determined by spectral hole burning and the other by fluorescence line narrowing. Those obtained by the latter spectroscopy are, on average, a factor of 30 times smaller than the hole burning values. Nonline-narrowed fluorescence results for the light-harvesting complex II of photosystem Il at 4.2 K are presented that agree quite well with the hole burning but not the fluorescence line narrowing values.