TY - BOOK ID - 77944414 TI - Photosynthetic excitons AU - Amerongen, Herbert van AU - Valkūnas, Leonas AU - Grondelle, Rienk van PY - 2000 SN - 9812813667 9789812813664 9810232802 9789810232801 PB - Singapore River Edge, N.J. World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Exciton theory. KW - Photosynthesis. KW - Electronic excitation. KW - Energy transfer. KW - Molecular spectroscopy. KW - Energy storage KW - Force and energy KW - Transport theory KW - Excitation, Electronic KW - Electrons KW - Exciton theory KW - Photobiology KW - Plants KW - Gases from plants KW - Electron-hole pair theory KW - Excitons, Theory of KW - Photons KW - Quantum theory KW - Solids KW - Spectroscopy, Molecular KW - Spectrum analysis KW - Molecular spectra KW - Effect of light on KW - Photorespiration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944414 AB - Excitons are considered as the basic concept used by describing the spectral properties of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes and excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna and reaction centers. Following the recently obtained structures of a variety of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes from plants and bacteria our interest in understanding the relation between structure, function and spectroscopy has strongly increased. These data demonstrate a short interpigment distance (of the order of 1 nm or even smaller) and/or a highly symmetric (ring-like) arrangement ER -