Synthetic zinc and magnesium chlorin aggregates as models for supramolecular antenna complexes in chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacteria

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 92-99

  Tamiaki, Hitoshi ^a   Amakawa, Masaaki ^a   Shimono, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tanikaga, Rikuhei ^a   Holzwarth, Alfred R ^b   Schaffner, Kurt ^b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

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EID: 0030060877     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb02997.x     Document Type: Article

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