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To the question of Förster theory status and applicability to intermolecular energy migration in photosynthesis

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The writing of this paper has been driven by a series of remarks made by reviewers of author’s works in several journals. They asserted that the Förster theory of inductive resonance is inapplicable in cases when electronic excitations are delocalized over several molecules, or plainly dismissed the theory as “out of date”. Since this is doubtlessly a question of general importance, this paper offers a detailed analysis of the types of molecular ensembles and conditions where the use of Förster theory is well founded.

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Original Russian Text © A.Y. Borisov, 2011, published in Biofizika, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1147–1152.

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Borisov, A.Y. To the question of Förster theory status and applicability to intermolecular energy migration in photosynthesis. BIOPHYSICS 56, 1106–1109 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350911060042

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