Role of Hydrogen Bonds in Photosynthetic Water Splitting

Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 433-461

  Renger, Gernot ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrogen binding of Yz in PS II lacking intact WOC; Hydrogen bond role, for light driven water splitting in photosynthesis; Hydrogen bonds and plastoquinol formation; Photosynthetic water splitting into T H2 andO2 transforming solar radiation into electrochemical Gibbs free energy; Photosynthetic water splitting, in solar radiation exploitation unique Gibbs free energy source; Photosystem II overall reaction pattern and cofactor arrangement; Plastoquinone reduction to plastoquinol in special binding pocket; Reaction sequences of PS II and hydrogen bond role; Redox state transitions and coupling to deprotonation reactions; Role of hydrogen bonds in photosynthetic water splitting

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EID: 84886120049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470669143.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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