%0 Journal Article
%T Synthesis of self-aggregative zinc chlorophylls possessing polymerizable esters as a atable model compound for main light-harvesting antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria
%A Hitoshi Tamiaki
%A Kazuya Nishihara
%A Reiko Shibata
%J International Journal of Photoenergy
%D 2006
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/ijp/2006/90989
%X Zinc bacteriochlorophyll-d derivatives possessing a polymerizable moiety at the 17-propionate were prepared as model compounds of natural occurring chlorophylls in the main peripheral antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria (chlorosomes). The synthetic compounds self-aggregated in nonpolar organic solvents as well as in the solid state to give large oligomers similar to chlorosomal J-aggregates. Such introduction of the polymerizable groups in the ester did not suppress the ability of self-aggregation.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/2006/090989/abs/