What is the function of the magnesium atom in a chlorophyll molecule?

Magnesium is the central atom of chlorophyll molecule. Chlorophyll is essential in plants for the process of photosynthesis. Chlorophyll are pigments absorbing sunlight. It is made up of porphyrin ring. At the centre of this ring magnesium forms the basic part.

Magnesium play an important role in the chlorophyll of the plant since is it enable the plant to be able to convert light into energy. Magnesium is the central atom of the porphyrin ring of the green plant pigment (the chlorophyll. The magnesium center defines the structure of chlorophyll molecules.