The Photonics of Porphyrin Molecules

The review deals with the properties and behaviour of porphyrin molecules in an excited state. Modern data on the electronic structure of metalloporphyrins and their luminescence-spectroscopic properties are presented. The problems of the photonics of metalloporphyrins, which are of great importance for the understanding of the initial stages in photosynthesis and for the control of the latter, are discussed in detail.
The bibliography includes 124 references.