Which alkaline Earth metal is found in chlorophyll and enables plants to food?

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anor277
May 11, 2017

Magnesium........

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Magnesium does not normally adopt square planar coordination, and yet the geometry of the porphyrin ring enforces such coordination. The complex allows reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide to give simple sugars.

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