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Journal Article
Both electronic and vibrational coherences are involved in primary electron transfer in bacterial reaction center
2019
Overview
Understanding the mechanism behind the near-unity efficiency of primary electron transfer in reaction centers is essential for designing performance-enhanced artificial solar conversion systems to fulfill mankind’s growing demands for energy. One of the most important challenges is distinguishing electronic and vibrational coherence and establishing their respective roles during charge separation. In this work we apply two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy to three structurally-modified reaction centers from the purple bacterium
Rhodobacter sphaeroides
with different primary electron transfer rates. By comparing dynamics and quantum beats, we reveal that an electronic coherence with dephasing lifetime of ~190 fs connects the initial excited state, P*, and the charge-transfer intermediate
P
A
+
P
B
-
; this
P
*
→
P
A
+
P
B
-
step is associated with a long-lived quasi-resonant vibrational coherence; and another vibrational coherence is associated with stabilizing the primary photoproduct,
P
+
B
A
-
. The results show that both electronic and vibrational coherences are involved in primary electron transfer process and they correlate with the super-high efficiency.
Distinguishing electronic and vibrational coherences helps to clarify the near-unity efficiency of primary electron transfer in reaction centres. Here, the authors report their respective correlation with the electron transfer rate by comparing the 2D electronic spectra of three mutant reaction centres.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Kinetics
/ Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins - chemistry
/ Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins - genetics
/ Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins - metabolism
/ Rhodobacter sphaeroides - chemistry
/ Rhodobacter sphaeroides - genetics
/ Rhodobacter sphaeroides - metabolism
/ Science
