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On the Nature of the Functional S-States in the Oxygen Evolving Centre of Photosystem II—What Computational Chemistry Reveals About the Water Splitting Mechanism

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Stranger, R., Petrie, S., Terrett, R., Pace, R.J. (2021). On the Nature of the Functional S-States in the Oxygen Evolving Centre of Photosystem II—What Computational Chemistry Reveals About the Water Splitting Mechanism. In: Shen, JR., Satoh, K., Allakhverdiev, S.I. (eds) Photosynthesis: Molecular Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67407-6_3

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