화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.106, No.37, 9679-9686, 2002
Pulsed ENDOR studies of short-lived spin-correlated radical pairs in photosynthetic reaction centers
Time-resolved electron-nuclear double resonance (TR-ENDOR) performed on the spin-correlated radical pair P-700(+) A(1)(-) in frozen solution samples of PSI shows a superposition of the ENDOR lines expected for the individual radicals P-700(+) and A(1)(-). Presented here are TR-ENDOR spectra taken over a range of EPR field positions. The spectra are unusual because they show both absorptive and emissive contributions and a strong dependence on the field. The nature of the spectra is explored using the theory of spin-correlated radical pairs. It is found that the. electron spin polarization in the radical pair is responsible for the absorptive/emissive nature of the TR-ENDOR spectra and that the mixed electronic eigenstates give rise to transitions in addition to those usually found in ENDOR. Computer simulations based on a model containing two coupled electrons and a single spin-(1)/(2) nucleus are able to reproduce the spectra and their field dependence. It is also shown that TR-ENDOR spectra from a spin-correlated radical pair are sensitive to the relative signs of the hyperfine couplings.