Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Photosensitizer Protein

Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Spiro-type Donor- Acceptor Systems

Perpendicular orientation of the electron donor in relation to the acceptor in the ground state seems to contribute significantly to high rate constants of the photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer (PET) in electron donor-acceptor (DA) type molecules [1]. A very interesting class of molecules in this respect are systems build around a spiro-type carbon atom, separating mutually orthogon...

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

Bimolecular photoinduced electron transfer reactions in liquids under the gaze of ultrafast spectroscopy.

Because of their key role in many areas of science and technology, bimolecular photoinduced electron transfer reactions have been intensively studied over the past five decades. Despite this, several important questions, such as the absence of the Marcus inverted region or the structure of the primary reaction product, have only recently been solved while others still remain unanswered. Ultrafa...

Exciplex formation in bimolecular photoinduced electron-transfer investigated by ultrafast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy.

The dynamics of bimolecular photoinduced electron-transfer reactions has been investigated with three donor/acceptor (D/A) pairs in tetrahydrofuran (THF) and acetonitrile (ACN) using a combination of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, including time-resolved infrared absorption. For the D/A pairs with the highest driving force of electron transfer, all transient spectroscopic features can be u...