Optically detected zero-field triplet state magnetic resonance in photosynthetic bacteria |
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Authors: | Richard H. Clarke Robert E. Connors |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA |
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Abstract: | Triplet state transitions of the photosynthetic bacteria Rhodospirillum Rubrum, Rhodopseudomonas Spheroides and Chromatium Vinosum in chemically reduced preparations have been observed by zero-field optical detection of magnetic resonance at 2 K. For each bacterial preparation two sharp, structureless, zero-field EPR transitions were observed as microwave-induced decreases in the fluorescence intensity of the frozen cellular preparations. The depopulating rate constants for the spin sublevels of the triplet states observed in R Rubrum and R Spheroides were also measured. The similarities of the triplet state frequencies, spectral features and intersystem crossing rates suggest a common structure for the reaction centers in the photosynthetic bacteria. |
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