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In vitro complexes of copper and zinc with chlorophyll

Author(s) -

Jelena Petrovic,

Goran Nikolić,

Dejan Marković

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of the serbian chemical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1820-7421

pISSN - 0352-5139

DOI - 10.2298/jsc0605501p

Subject(s) - zinc , copper , chlorophyll , chemistry , chlorophyll a , chelation , photosynthesis , pigment , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , photochemistry , inorganic chemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry , chemical engineering , engineering

Complexes of copper and zinc with chlorophyll, the major photosynthesis pigment, were studied by Vis, FTIR and fluorescence spectroscopy. Two types of complexes were recognized. While copper replaces the central magnesium atom of chlorophyll to form a "central" Cu-Chl complex, this was not proposed in the case of zinc. Instead, the zinc-mediated formation of a 6-membered chelate cycle fused at the periphery of the chlorophyll structure is proposed. The latter event could be ascribed to allomerization reactions of chlorophyll.

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