TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards artificial photosynthesis
T2 - Ruthenium-manganese chemistry mimicking photosystem II reactions
AU - Hammarström, Leif
N1 - Funding Information:
All past and present collaboration partners of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis are gratefully acknowledged, in particular Stenbjörn Styring (Lund), Björn Åkermark and Licheng Sun (Stockholm). This work was supported by The Swedish Energy Agency, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and The Swedish Research Council. The author is a Research Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - The reaction center Photosystem II is a key component of the most successful solar energy converting machinery on earth: the oxygenic photosynthesis. Photosystem II uses light to drive the reduction of plastoquinone and the oxidation of water. Water-oxidation is catalyzed by a manganese cluster and gives the organism an abundant source of electrons. The principles of photosynthesis have inspired chemists to mimic these reactions in artificial molecular assemblies. Synthetic light-harvesting antennae and light-induced charge separation systems have been demonstrated by several groups. More recently, there has been an increasing effort to mimic Photosystem II by coupling light-driven charge separation to water oxidation, catalyzed by synthetic manganese complexes.
AB - The reaction center Photosystem II is a key component of the most successful solar energy converting machinery on earth: the oxygenic photosynthesis. Photosystem II uses light to drive the reduction of plastoquinone and the oxidation of water. Water-oxidation is catalyzed by a manganese cluster and gives the organism an abundant source of electrons. The principles of photosynthesis have inspired chemists to mimic these reactions in artificial molecular assemblies. Synthetic light-harvesting antennae and light-induced charge separation systems have been demonstrated by several groups. More recently, there has been an increasing effort to mimic Photosystem II by coupling light-driven charge separation to water oxidation, catalyzed by synthetic manganese complexes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cbpa.2003.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cbpa.2003.10.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14644174
AN - SCOPUS:0344896573
VL - 7
SP - 666
EP - 673
JO - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
SN - 1367-5931
IS - 6
ER -