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PHOTOSENSITIZATION AND PHOTOCATALYSIS IN BIOINORGANIC, BIO-ORGANOMETALLIC AND BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS GÜNTHER KNÖR^1 and UWE MONKOWIU ...

sensitization of such photoprocesses remains a central challenge for utilizing sunlight as the energy source for enzyme mimetics ...

(Fig. 1). Our intention is rather to visualize current research horizons and to stimulate further endeavors into this exciting n ...

Metalloenzyme catalysts participate as key compounds in some of the most important biochemical processes of life on earth includ ...

structural changes on the substrate binding sites of biomimetic and bioinspired coordination compounds (artificial photoenzymes, ...

A.1. Photoresponsive biomolecules Intensely colored visible-light absorbing molecules are an essential part of our living enviro ...

characteristic absorption bands( 25 ). Most of these compounds are able to interact with metal ions or may serve as ligands in b ...

other medical applications ( 34 ). Although the detailed mechanisms causing such effects are not fully clear, it seems that the ...

In this context, it is interesting to note that it has been pointed out that enzyme catalysis driven by light represents photosy ...

metal (M) or at the ligands (L). In such a case, three funda- mental types of electronic transitions can be distinguished. Trans ...

compounds, or to identify the involvement of characteristic inter- mediates or cofactors in biochemical processes. Illustrative ...

lead to low-energy CT interactions. This includes the observation of mixed-valent compounds with ligand-to-ligand charge transfe ...

become necessary to sensitize the systems by introducing additional excited state levels. A.3. Spectral sensitization The proces ...