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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Hydrogen bond driven self-assembled C2-symmetric chlorinsyn dimers; unorthodox models for chlorophyll ‘special pairs’ in photosynthetic reaction centres†

Taru Nikkonen,a   Raisa Haavikkoa  and  Juho Helaja*b  

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a Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, A.I Virtasen aukio 1, P.O. Box 55, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland

b Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, A.I Virtasen aukio 1, P.O. Box 55, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
E-mail: juho.helaja@helsinki.fi
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Abstract

Amide linked pyro-pheophorbidea dimers, equipped with a suitable length of linkage, assemble in non-polar solvents by internal hydrogen bonding into C2-symmetric stacked structures as evidenced by UV-vis, fluorescence, IR, CD, 1H NMR spectroscopy and DFT molecular modelling studies.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogen bond driven self-assembled C2-symmetric chlorinsyn dimers; unorthodox models for chlorophyll ‘special pairs’ in photosynthetic reaction centres

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B819764D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Nov 2008
Accepted
03 Feb 2009
First published
20 Mar 2009

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009,7, 2046-2052

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Hydrogen bond driven self-assembled C2-symmetric chlorinsyn dimers; unorthodox models for chlorophyll ‘special pairs’ in photosynthetic reaction centres

T. Nikkonen, R. Haavikko and J. Helaja, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 2046 DOI: 10.1039/B819764D

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