Apparatus and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution: A personal perspective

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 269-288

  Renger, Gernot ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bernadette Bouges Bocquet; Bessel Kok; George Cheniae; Gerald T. Babcock; Gernot Renger; Hydrogen atom abstraction; Ken Sauer; Mechanism; Melvin Klein; Photosystem II; Pierre Joliot; Structure; Water cleavage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043180437     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024907012382     Document Type: Short Survey

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