Structural role of (bacterio)chlorophyll ligated in the energetically unfavorable beta-position.

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Chlorophyll is attached to apoprotein in diastereotopically distinct ways, by beta- and alpha-ligation. Both the beta- and alpha-ligated chlorophylls of photosystem I are shown to have ample contacts to apoprotein within their proteinaceous binding sites, in particular, at C-13 of the isocyclic ring. The H-bonding patterns for the C-13(1) oxo groups, however, are clearly distinct for the beta-ligated and...

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