**Meet the editor**

Dr Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2009. He has been a guest scientist in Dr. Philipp Kurz's group in the Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Germany for six months and is a recipient of several awards and fellowships, notably, the gold medal of the

National Chemistry Olympiad in 2004. In 2010, he ranked first in the Khwarizmi Youth Festival. He is currently a faculty member in the Chemistry Department, and also the Center of Climate Change and Global Warming in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) (Zanjan, Iran). Mahdi and his research group explore transition-metal compounds as water oxidizing catalysts for artificial photosynthesis. He is the author of over 60 publications in international journals in these and other areas.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Artificial Photosynthesis 3** 

Bahar Ipek and Deniz Uner

**as Water Oxidizing Catalysts in Artificial Photosynthesis 37**  Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour

**of Photosystem II Affect PSII Function and Cytochrome C550 Binding 53** 

Chapter 5 **Semiconductors in Organic Photosynthesis 79** 

Brandon D. Burch, Terry M. Bricker and Cindy Putnam-Evans

Cristian Gambarotti, Lucio Melone and Carlo Punta

**of Photosynthesis by Fluctuating Light 115**  David Iluz, Irit Alexandrovich and Zvy Dubinsky

Chapter 7 **An Approach Based on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Toward Elucidation of Highly Efficient Energy Transfer Ability of Peridinin in Photosynthesis 135** 

Takayuki Kajikawa and Shigeo Katsumura

**Part 2 Fundamental Aspects 11** 

Chapter 2 **Artificial Photosynthesis** 

Chapter 3 **Manganese Compounds** 

Chapter 6 **The Enhancement** 

Chapter 4 **Mutations in the CP43 Protein** 

Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour and Sara Nayeri

**from a Chemical Engineering Perspective 13** 

**Part 1 Introduction 1** 

Chapter 1 **Gathering Light:** 
