Excited state

... bonds", that's a mistake. The point is the hybridization state of the carbons, i.e. sp2 hybridization (see wiki ), which leaves one ... normal p-orbitals and thus these electron need smaller energy to be excited (look for molecular orbitals ). They are anchored in the chloroplasts! ...

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... fluorescence even in intact photosystems is because an electron may be excited and return to the ground state several times before actually being picked up by the electron transport chain. Is that ...

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... thought that the reason why chlorophyll fluoresces is because the photoexcited electrons spontaneously drop back down to the ground state. This drop doesn't happen in an intact chloroplast, because the excited electron is captured ...

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... thought that the reason why chlorophyll fluoresces is because the photoexcited electrons spontaneously drop back down to the ground state. This drop doesn't happen in an intact chloroplast, because the excited electron is captured ...

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... why isolated chlorophyll fluoresces--an electron that has been excited to a higher energy orbital drops back down to the ground-state orbital, releasing energy as heat and light/fluorescence. In an intact chloroplast, the ...

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