Water splitting: Ultrahigh resolution data reveals reaction mechanisms
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 09:05
in Physics & Chemistry
Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms utilize energy from the sun to split water into protons, electrons and oxygen—products vital to life on earth. The process takes place through light-induced electron transfer reactions in a membrane protein complex photosystem II, but so far the resolution of structural studies on the protein complex has been too limited to ascertain the mechanism of these reactions in detail.