[PDF] Solvation Dynamics And Vibrational Excitations In Electron Transfer Reactions eBook

Author : B Bagchi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1991-12-31
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ISBN : 9814611247

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Understanding and manipulating the properties of materials naturally occurring in our world and artificially produced by modern technologies requires detailed information on their properties on the atomic scale. This information is the basis for any kind of research in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, metallurgy, and ceramics. Among the various experimental methods, neutron and photon scattering have become the key techniques of choice.This book provides an overview of the complementarity between neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering. The most important topics are covered, including structure determination, magnetic correlations, polymer dynamics, thin films and multilayers, photoemission studies, etc; they are thoroughly introduced and discussed by experts from both the experimental and the theoretical side.

Author : Joshua Jortner
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470141663

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an integrated approach to electron transfer phenomena This two-part stand-alone volume in the prestigious Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the most comprehensive overview of electron transfer science today. It draws on cutting-edge research from diverse areas of chemistry, physics, and biology-covering the most recent developments in the field, and pointing to important future trends. This second volume offers the following sections: * Solvent control, including ultrafast solvation dynamics and related topics * Ultrafast electron transfer and coherence effects * Molecular electronics * Electron transfer and exciplex chemistry * Biomolecules-from electron transfer tubes to kinetics in a DNA environment Part One addresses the historical perspective, electron transfer phenomena in isolated molecules and clusters, general theory, and electron transfer kinetics in bridged compounds. Electron transfer science has seen tremendous progress in recent years. Technological innovations, most notably the advent of femtosecond lasers, now permit the real-time investigation of intramolecular and intermolecular electron transfer processes on a time scale of nuclear motion. New scientific information abounds, illuminating the processes of energy acquisition, storage, and disposal in large molecules, clusters, condensed phase, and biophysical systems. Electron Transfer: From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules is the first book devoted to the exciting work being done in nonradiative electron transfer dynamics today. This two-part edited volume emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field, bringing together the contributions of pioneers in chemistry, physics, and biology. Both theoretical and experimental topics are featured. The authors describe modern approaches to the exploration of different systems, including supersonic beam techniques, femtosecond laser spectroscopy, chemical syntheses, and methods in genetic and chemical engineering. They examine applications in such areas as supersonic jets, solvents, electrodes, semi- conductors, respiratory and enzymatic protein systems, photosynthesis, and more. They also relate electron transfer and radiationless transitions theory to pertinent physical phenomena, and provide a conceptual framework for the different processes. Complete with over two hundred illustrations, Part Two opens with solvent control issues, including electron transfer reactions and ultrafast solvation dynamics. Other topics include ultrafast electron transfer and coherence effects, molecular electronics, and electron transfer in exciplex chemistry. This volume concludes with a section on biomolecules-from electron transfer tubes to experimental electron transfer and transport in DNA. Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, Electron Transfer: From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules is an essential resource for physical chemists, molecular physicists, and researchers working in nonradiative dynamics today.

Author : Volkhard May
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527633812

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This 3rd edition has been expanded and updated to account for recent developments, while new illustrative examples as well as an enlarged reference list have also been added. It naturally retains the successful concept of its predecessors in presenting a unified perspective on molecular charge and energy transfer processes, thus bridging the regimes of coherent and dissipative dynamics, and establishing a connection between classic rate theories and modern treatments of ultrafast phenomena. Among the new topics are: - Time-dependent density functional theory - Heterogeneous electron transfer, e.g. between molecules and metal or semiconductor surfaces - Current flows through a single molecule. While serving as an introduction for graduate students and researchers, this is equally must-have reading for theoreticians and experimentalists, as well as an aid to interpreting experimental data and accessing the original literature.

Author : J.D. Simon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1994-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792324898

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This volume presents an up-to-date overview of developments in the field of ultrafast reaction dynamics in condensed phases. Thirteen contributions, written by leading experts, report on a variety of chemical phenomena studied by many different experimental and theoretical techniques. Topics discussed include ultrafast spectroscopic techniques; aspects of electron transfer reactions ranging from solvent effects; intermolecular and intramolecular systems, to dynamics at semiconductor surfaces; the dynamics of chemical systems using Raman spectroscopy; pericyclic photochemical rearrangements and photodissociation reactions; solvent--solute interaction dynamics; and chemical dynamics in clusters. Theoretical treatments of impulsive femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, solvation dynamics and electron transfer are presented. The field of ultrafast chemistry is growing rapidly. The works described in this volume provide an overview of many of the exciting areas currently under study. For researchers interested in up-to-date theoretical and experimental developments in ultrafast spectroscopy in chemical systems.

Author : D. K. Phelps
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1992
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The predicted alterations in the solvent-dependent reaction dynamics of electron-transfer processes brought about by the presence of reactant vibrational (inner-shell) activation in addition to overdamped solvent motion are examined by using a slightly modified from of the theoretical treatment due to Sumi, Nadler, and Marcus. Allowance is made for the occurrence of nuclear tunneling involving the high-frequency vibrational modes, and for barrier crossing driven by solvent inertial polarization as well as vibrational activation. The latter enables the emergence of the zero-friction (transition-state theory, TST) limit to be included along with providing a unified description in the absence and presence of vibrational activation. Attention is focussed on the calculated dependencies of the reaction rate constant, and barrier-crossing frequency, upon the overdamped solvent relaxation time, over a range of parameters and in a format which can be compared directly with experimental solvent-dependent kinetic data.