Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions of Water Soluble Porphyrins in Zeolite Environment

Dynamics of Bimolecular Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Reactions

From the accumulated results of several research groups over the last 25 years, it is clear that photoinduced electron-transfer reactions have significantly broadened the scope of organic photochemistry.1 The fundamental mechanistic principle is that when quenching of an excited state via electron transfer is sufficiently exothermic, the reaction occurs at or close to the diffusion-controlled l...

ultrafast spectroscopy on bimolecular photoinduced electron transfer reactions

in Figure 1. After excitation of one of the reactants, diffusion is required to bring the reaction partners at distances where charge separation (CS) can occur. The nature of the primary quenching product is still debated.3 For weakly exergonic CS, ∆GCS > ~ -0.4 eV, it is generally accepted that the product is a contact ion pair (CIP), that is, two ions at a distance enabling a substantial over...

Nonequilibrium photoinduced electron transfer

Ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer in face-to-face charge-transfer π-complexes of planar porphyrins and hexaazatriphenylene derivatives.

Charge-transfer (CT) π-complexes are formed between planar porphyrins and 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene (HAT) derivatives with large formation constants (e.g., 104 M-1), exhibiting broad CT absorption bands. The unusually large formation constants result from close face-to-face contact between two planar π-planes of porphyrins and HAT derivatives. The redox potentials of porphyrins and HAT d...

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Ionic Media

Title of Document: PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER IN IONIC MEDIA Rebecca Cristine Vieira, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Dr. Daniel E. Falvey, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The goal of this research was to explore the use of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and ionic liquids crystals (ILCs) as reaction media for photoinduced electron transfer (PET) processes. Photoindu...