Oxygen Production and Reduction in Artificial and Natural Systems

How biology solved its energy problem and implications for the future of humankind -- Theory of rate constants of individual reaction steps in single molecule experiments on F1-ATPase -- Deriving molecular mechanisms of respiratory and photosynthetic enzymes by computational models -- Reflections on redox states in enzymes -- The role of singlet oxygen in photoinhibition of photosystem II -- Modular assembly of atp synthase -- Cytochrome C oxidase: remaining questions about the catalytic mechanism -- Cytochrome C oxidase: oxygen consumption, energy conservation and control -- Mimicking the oxygen-evolving center in photosystem II -- Protein environment that facilitates proton transfer and electron transfer in photosystem II -- Key molecular Ru complexes that have fostered the development and understanding of water oxidation catalysis -- Material design for artificial photosynthesis using photoelectrodes for hydrogen production -- Synthesis, electronic structure, and spectroscopy of multinuclear Mn complexes relevant to the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II -- Progress towards unraveling the water-oxidation mechanism of photosystem II -- Structure and mechanism of Ni- and Fe-containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenases -- Selective replacement of the damaged D1 reaction center subunit during the repair of the oxygen-evolving photosystem II complex -- Dft investigations on the reaction mechanisms in photosynthetic oxygen evolution -- Local cycle of photosynthesis and quasi-aerobic respiration facilitated by manganese oxides: a hypothesis on the evolution of phototrophy -- A perspective on a paradigm shift in plant photosynthesis: designing a novel type of photosynthesis in sorghum by combining C3 and C4 metabolism.