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Bursting photosynthesis: designing ad-hoc fluorophores to complement the light harvesting capability of the photosynthetic reaction center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2014

Roberta Ragni ,
Omar Hassan Omar ,
Rocco Roberto Tangorra ,
Francesco Milano ,
Danilo Vona ,
Alessandra Operamolla ,
Simona La Gatta ,
Angela Agostiano ,
Massimo Trotta  and
Gianluca M. Farinola
Roberta Ragni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Omar Hassan Omar
Affiliation:
Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Rocco Roberto Tangorra
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Francesco Milano
Affiliation:
Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Danilo Vona
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Alessandra Operamolla
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Simona La Gatta
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Angela Agostiano
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Massimo Trotta
Affiliation:
Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Gianluca M. Farinola*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
*
*Email: gianlucamaria.farinola@uniba.it
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Abstract

The covalent functionalization of photosynthetic proteins with properly tailored organic molecular antennas represents a powerful approach to build a new generation of hybrid systems capable of exploiting solar energy. In this paper the strategy for the synthesis of the tailored aryleneethynylene organic fluorophore (AE) properly designed to act as light harvesting antenna is presented along with its successful bioconjugation to the photosynthetic reaction center RC from the bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides .

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biological synthesis (assembly)biological synthesis (chemical reaction)biomimetic (assembly)
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1689: Symposium Z – Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications , 2014 , mrss14-1689-z06-01
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