THE OXYGEN PROBLEM. “When chlorophyll-containing species found themselves in the presence of O2 then there was a big problem: the excited singlet and more importantly the longer-lived triplet state had more than enough energy (1.3 eV) to drive the conversion of triplet O2 to its highly reactive singlet form (1 eV). Redox tuning does not help here, this is an energy question and red light is as low in energy as possible for efficient oxygenic photosynthesis.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022