Gideon Blauer & Horst Sund 
Optical Properties and Structure of Tetrapyrroles [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Konstanz West Germany, August 12–17, 1984

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — List Of Contributors — Section I. General — An Historical Survey of Porphyrins, their Related Spectra, and their Interpretation — Routes to Functional Porphyrin Assemblies (Molecular Complexes, Covalent Redox Pairs, and Reactive Domains in Vesicles) — Organism Dependent Pathways of Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis — Section II. Porphyrins And Metalloporphyrins — Transient Absorption Spectra and Excited State Kinetics of Transition Metal Porphyrins — Metal Complexes of Tetrapyrrole Ligands. XXXVII. Structure and Optical Spectra of Sandwich-Like Lanthanoid Porphyrins — Excited State Electron Transfer of Carbonyl[mesotetra(p-tolyl) porphyrinato osmium(II)]Complexes. One and Two Electron Photoredox Processes — Photophysical Properties of Hematoporphyrin and its Derivatives and their Use in Tumor Phototherapy — Optical Properties of Ferriheme-Quinidine Complexes — Resonance Raman Studies of Haemoglobin — Optical Properties of Heme Bound to the Central Exon Fragment of Globins and to Corresponding Fragments in Cytochromes — Heme Configuration in Cytochrome c — Correlation between Near-Infrared, ESR Spectra and Oxidation- Reduction Potentials in Low-Spin Heme Proteins — Circular Dichroism Contributions of Heme-Heme and Chlorophyll- Chlorophyll Interactions — Optical Properties of Conjugated Proteins which Transport Haem, Porphyrins and Bilirubin — Section III. Bile Pigments — Light Absorption of Bilatrienes-abc and 2, 3-Dihydrobilatrienes-abc — Mechanism of Phototherapy of Neonatal Jaundice. Regiospecific Photoisomerization of Bilirubins — Effects of Environment on Photophysical Processes of Bilirubin — The Molecular Model of Phytochrome Deduced from Optical Probes — Phytochrome, the Visual Pigment of Plants: Chromophore Structure and Chemistry of Photoconversion — Recent Advances in the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Small, Large, and Native Oat Phytochromes — Contents IX Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depolarisation of Phycocyanins in Different States of Aggregation — The Influence of an External Electrical Charge on the Circular Dichroism of Chromopeptides from Phycocyanin — Bilins and Bilin-Protein Linkages in Phycobili proteins: Structural and Spectroscopic Studies — Structural Organization of Tetrapyrrole Pigments in Light- Harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes — The Crystal and Molecular Structure of C-Phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus and its Implications for Function and Evolution — Section IV. Chlorophylls — Optical Spectra of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. Theoretical and Experimental Aspects — Circular Dichroism of Chlorophylls in Protein Complexes from Chloroplasts of Higher Plants: A Critical Assessment — Optical Properties and Structure of Chlorophyll RC I — Long-Wavelength Absorbing Forms of Bacteriochlorophyl Is. II. Structural Requirements for Formation in Triton X-100 Micelles and in Aqueous Methanol and Acetone — Concluding Remarks — Index of Contributors — Subject Index — Backmatter