THE QUESTION OF DISPERSIVE KINETICS FOR THE INITIAL PHASE OF CHARGE SEPARATION IN BACTERIAL REACTION CENTERS

Recently, femtosecond time domain data have raised the possibility that the kinetics of the initial phase of charge separation could be dispersive due to the glasslike structural heterogeneity of proteins. Guided by spectral hole burning data, we have derived simple theoretical rate expressions which allow the question posed in the title to be explored.