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It has been shown that the treatment of chlorophyll a amorphous layer surface with the electron acceptor n-chloranyl leads to an increase of photocurrent by 10(1)--10(3) times. The photoinduced polarization in the lamellar system chlorophyll a--n-chloranyll is studied. It has been shown that under the effect of the red light the n-chloranyl layer is negatively charged in relation to the pigment layer. Photoconductivity was discovered in the rigid layers of chlorophyll a+human serum albumin. When a thin film of n-chloranyl is sprayed on the surface of the chlorophyll-protein layer, the photocurrent increases approximately 6--7 times. The experimental results are discussed within the scheme according to which the formation of free radical carriers in chlorophyll layers is carried out by the destruction of excited states, possibly excitons on the electron-acceptor centres of dissociation.

Photoinduced transfer of electrons in alkohol solutions of chlorophyll and its deuterated analog, deuterochlorophyll containing the quinoses: p-benzoquinone, chloranyl, duroquinone, 1,4-naftoquinone and ubiquinone (coenzyme Q6) is studied. It is shown that pigment cation-radical and quinone anion-radical are the primary products of photoreaction. A relationship between stationary concentrations of deuterochlorophyll and p-benzoquinone radicals and quinone concentration in solution is obtained. The reaction mechanism and causes of other authors' (G. Tollin et al.) failure in finding pigment cation-radicals which are formed in the reaction of the latter with quinoses are discussed. It is shown that optimal conditions for accumulating photoinduced cation-radicals of the pigment in pigment solutions of chlorophyll with quinones are lowered temperature, high viscosity of the solvent, low pH of the solution, careful purification of the quinone from hydroquinone admixture.

Traps with the bedding depth of 0.1 ev in the layers of chlorophyll alpha treated with the electron acceptor n-chloranil were discovered by the method of thermostimulating conductivity. It is suggested that the traps catch mobile vacancies, which occur due to the decomposition of the excited states of the pigment on electron-acceptor centres of the dissociation.