The last issue of Chemical Reviews provides several comprehensive reviews on light harvesting phenomena, which cover a variety of topics, including theoretical approaches for energy transfer, single-molecule spectroscopy, organic photovoltaic materials or energy transfer in quantum dot bioconjugates. Due to the enormous number of studies appeared on this topic in the last decade, this will surely be useful for researchers in the area.
If you are interested in quantum chemical studies on light harvesting, you can check our review, which covers both theoretical studies on organic materials and in photosynthetic systems, as well as the theoretical foundations of the main QM models developed in the field.
In the cover of this issue of Chem. Rev. we illustrate the QM transition densities used to estimate the coupling that mediates the energy transfer from a carotenoid, the rhodopsin glucoside, to a bacteriochlorophyll a in the light harvesting complex 2 (LH2) of purple bacteria:
