CHEMISTRY AND POSITION FIXES. “The very high potentials involved in water photolysis can result in the adventitious oxidation of nearby organic species in and around the PSII reaction centre. To work as quenchers of chlorophyll triplets, carotenoids need to be very close, van der Waals contact is typical. Thus carotenoids cannot protect the core chlorophylls in PSII and indeed the crystal structure verified this prediction.” (PSII = photosystem II)
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022