Theoretical studies on the mechanism of primary electron transfer in the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-36

  Xu, Hong ^a   Zhang, Ru Bo ^a   Ma, Shu Hua ^a   Qu, Zheng Wang ^a   Zhang, Xing Kang ^a   Zhang, Qi Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

ab initio; Density functional theory; Electron transfer; ODA ENFC; Photosynthetic reaction center; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036442488     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020811911956     Document Type: Article

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