Circular Dichroism Study of the Light-Harvesting PCP Complexes Within the Vibronic Multistate Dimer Theory |
| M. Pilch and M. Pawlikowski Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Karasia 3, 30-060 Kraków, Poland |
| Received: August 12, 1990 |
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| Chiral properties of peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) light-harvesting complexes are studied in terms of vibronic dimer theory previously applied to study certain structural aspects of α-crustacyanin pigments. On the base of CD spectra it is shown that the peridinin dimer acts as a chiral group in PCP complexes and its geometrical structure is such that the peridinin monomers cannot be coplanar. Certain observations concerning the energy transfer process in PCP complexes in vivo are also made. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.79.619 PACS numbers: 33.10.Lb, 33.55.Ad |