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