Charge-Transfer Collisions Involving Electron Transfer to Excited States

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Perel ◽  
Howard L. Daley
2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 858-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dreuw ◽  
G.R. Fleming ◽  
M. Head-Gordon

NPQ (non-photochemical quenching) is a fundamental photosynthetic mechanism by which plants protect themselves against excess excitation energy and the resulting photodamage. A discussed molecular mechanism of the so-called feedback de-excitation component (qE) of NPQ involves the formation of a quenching complex. Recently, we have studied the influence of formation of a zeaxanthin–chlorophyll complex on the excited states of the pigments using high-level quantum chemical methodology. In the case of complex formation, electron-transfer quenching of chlorophyll-excited states by carotenoids is a relevant quenching mechanism. Furthermore, additionally occurring charge-transfer excited states can be exploited experimentally to prove the existence of the quenching complex during NPQ.


1990 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 729-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. J. Chang ◽  
Xiaobing. Xu ◽  
T. Yabe ◽  
Soo Chang. Yu ◽  
D. R. Anderson ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (23) ◽  
pp. 10921-10934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Jang Chen ◽  
Onduru S. Odongo ◽  
Patrick G. McNamara ◽  
Konrad T. Szacilowski ◽  
John F. Endicott

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2278-2288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre D. Harvey ◽  
Liangbing Gan ◽  
Christiane Aubry

Four diarylideneacetone compounds ((RCHCH)2CO, where the aryl groups are phenyl (dba), 1-naphthyl (1-dNapha), 2-naphthyl (2-dNapha), and 3-(N-ethylcarbazoyl) (dNECa)), and 4-(C5H5)Fe(C5H4C6H4CHCH(CO)CHCH(C6H5) (dba-Fc) have been prepared and characterized. The compounds are found to be fluorescent and photochemically and reversibly electrochemically active. The lowest-energy absorption bands for the diarylideneacetones are assigned to a charge transfer (CT) electronic transition, except for dba-Fc, in which a ferrocenyl ligand field transition assignment is made. The 77 K CT absorption and fluorescence bands are vibrationally structured (vibrational spacings = 1260–1360 cm−1). While the fluorescence decay at 293 K is monoexponential, the excited state fluorescence lifetimes (τF) for the 77 K samples exhibit double exponential decays, the short component being 0.38–0.64 ns and the long one 3.5–10.9 ns. The photophysical results are interpreted in terms of excited state deactivation processes dominated by radiationless pathways that are associated with the presence of fluorescent species with different geometries. Only the dNECa compound is found to be fluorescent in solution at 298 K [Formula: see text]. Cyclic voltammetry and coulometry measurements suggest that a reversible one-electron reduction process and an irreversible higher potential one-electron reduction process take place in the −1 to −2 V vs. SSCE range. In addition, dba-Fc also exhibits an electrochemically reversible one-electron oxidation wave at 0.52 V vs. SSCE centered at the ferrocenyl group. These results together with the spectroscopic electronic data have permitted evaluation of the reduction potentials of the lowest singlet (CT excited states (E1−/*);they range from 1.4 to 2.2 V vs. SSCE, with dba being the strongest photooxidizing agent and dNECa the weakest. Photoinduced intermolecular electron transfer reactions have been investigated by steady state fluorescence techniques and picosecond flash photolysis spectroscopy for dNECa and dba, respectively. The bimolecular deactivation rate constants, kq, for the reductive photoinduced electron transfer reactions of dNECa with diphenylamine (DPA) (kq = (2.65 ± 0.25) × 107 M−1 s−1) and N, N, N′, N′-tetramethylphenylenediamine (TMPM) (kq = (1.38 ± 0.03) × 108 M−1 s−1) have been obtained in THF solutions at 293 K. No fluorescence quenching is observed when oxidative and energy transfer quenchers are used with dNECa. For the non-emissive dba compound at room temperature, picosecond flash photolysis experiments show that quenching of the broad dba transient band (~500 nm) does indeed occur between 5 and 10 ns. Keywords: dibenzylideneacetone, charge transfer, photoelectron transfer.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Stout ◽  
Brian Skelton ◽  
Alexandre N. Sobolev ◽  
Paolo Raiteri ◽  
Massimiliano Massi ◽  
...  

<p>Three Re(I) tricarbonyl complexes, with general formulation Re(N^L)(CO)<sub>3</sub>X (where N^L is a bidentate ligand containing a pyridine functionalized in the position 2 with a thione or a thiazol-2-ylidene group and X is either chloro or bromo) were synthesized and their reactivity explored in terms of solvent-dependent ligand substitution, both in the ground and excited states. When dissolved in acetonitrile, the complexes bound to the thione ligand underwent ligand exchange with the solvent resulting in the formation of Re(NCMe)<sub>2</sub>(CO)<sub>3</sub>X. The exchange was found to be reversible, and the starting complex was reformed upon removal of the solvent. On the other hand, the complexes appeared inert in dichloromethane or acetone. Conversely, the complex bound to the thiazole-2-ylidene ligand did not display any ligand exchange reaction in the dark, but underwent photoactivated ligand substitution when excited to its lowest metal-to-ligand charge transfer manifold. Photolysis of this complex in acetonitrile generated multiple products, including Re(I) tricarbonyl and dicarbonyl solvato-complexes as well as free thiazole-2-ylidene ligand.</p>


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Mrázek ◽  
Ján Žabka ◽  
Zdeněk Dolejšek ◽  
Zdeněk Herman

The beam scattering method was used to investigate non-dissociative single-electron charge transfer between the molecular dication CO22+ and Ar or Ne at several collision energies between 3-10 eV (centre-of-mass, c.m.). Relative translational energy distributions of the product ions showed that in the reaction with Ar the CO2+ product was mainly formed in reactions of the ground state of the dication, CO22+(X3Σg-), leading to the excited states of the product CO2+(A2Πu) and CO2+(B2Σu+). In the reaction with Ne, the largest probability had the process from the reactant dication excited state CO22+(1Σg+) leading to the product ion ground state CO2+(X2Πg). Less probable were processes between the other excited states of the dication CO22+, (1∆g), (1Σu-), (3∆u), also leading to the product ion ground state CO2+(X2Πg). Using the Landau-Zener model of the reaction window, relative populations of the ground and excited states of the dication CO22+ in the reactant beam were roughly estimated as (X3Σg):(1∆g):(1Σg+):(1Σu-):(3∆u) = 1.0:0.6:0.5:0.25:0.25.


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