Self-Assemblies of Novel Magnesium Porphyrins Mimicking Natural Chlorosomal Bacteriochlorophylls
Citations Over Time
Abstract
Self-assembling porphyrins are promising materials to mimic natural bacteriochlorophylls c, d, or e encountered in the chlorosomes of photosynthetic bacteria. We have studied four novel magnesium porphyrins mimicking this chlorosomal antenna system. In contrast to previous articles reporting synthetic Zn-porphyrins, our studies focus on porphyrins with Mg as the central atom, which mimic more closely the natural bacteriochlorophylls. The analysis of time-resolved photoluminescence dynamics based on the decay-associated emission spectra shows a short-lived component associated with the supramolecular architecture. It confirms the ordered nature of the investigated porphyrins and suggests that these self-assemblies can be used as artificial antennae in light-harvesting devices like biomimetic solar cells.
Related Papers
- → Chlorosomes: Structure, Function and Assembly(2014)33 cited
- → In Vivo Energy Transfer from Bacteriochlorophyll c, d, e, or f to Bacteriochlorophyll a in Wild‐Type and Mutant Cells of the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum(2017)29 cited
- → Optical and structural properties of chlorosomes of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium limicola(1986)74 cited
- → Förster energy transfer in chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacteria(1992)55 cited
- → Some factors controlling the biosynthesis of chlorosome antenna bacteriochlorophylls in green filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria of the family Oscillochloridaceae(2006)5 cited