Issue 12, 2008
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Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences

Pitfalls and limitations in the practical use of Förster's theory of resonance energy transfer†

Silvia E. Braslavsky,a   Eduard Fron,b   Hernán B. Rodríguez,c   Enrique San Román,*c   Gregory D. Scholes,*d   Gerd Schweitzer,b   Bernard Valeur*e  and  Jakob Wirz*f  

* Corresponding authors

a Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Postfach 101365, 45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
E-mail: braslavskys@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de

b Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
E-mail: eduard.fron@chem.kuleuven.be

c INQUIMAE/DQIAyQF, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
E-mail: esr@qi.fcen.uba.ar

d Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
E-mail: gscholes@chem.utoronto.ca

e Department STI, CNAM, 292 rue Saint-Martin, 75141 Paris cedex 03, and Institut d'Alembert, Laboratoire PPSM, ENS-Cachan, 61 Avenue du President Wilson, 94235 Cachan cedex, France
E-mail: bernard.valeur@cnam.fr

f Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
E-mail: J.Wirz@unibas.ch

Abstract

Disparate presentations in the literature of the basic equations of Förster's theory of resonance energy transfer are clarified and the limitations of these equations are discussed.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B810620G
Article type
Forum
Submitted
23 Jun 2008
Accepted
18 Aug 2008
First published
15 Sep 2008

Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2008,7, 1444-1448

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Pitfalls and limitations in the practical use of Förster's theory of resonance energy transfer

S. E. Braslavsky, E. Fron, H. B. Rodríguez, E. S. Román, G. D. Scholes, G. Schweitzer, B. Valeur and J. Wirz, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2008, 7, 1444 DOI: 10.1039/B810620G

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