SOME THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ELECTRON-TRANSFER PROCESSES IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION

Some aspects of electron transfer sensitization systems

Some aspects of electron transfer sensitization systems not only for chemical conversion and storage of light energy but also for design of photoelectrochemical molecular device are presented. Also regarding energy conversion as one of chemical transformation of every chemical signal (information), we have been introducing and realizing the concepts of molecular electronic device. This paper in...

Theoretical Study on Relaxation Processes of Biopolymers in Aqueous Solution

Observation of electron-transfer-mediated decay in aqueous solution.

Photoionization is at the heart of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), which gives access to important information on a sample's local chemical environment. Local and non-local electronic decay after photoionization-in which the refilling of core holes results in electron emission from either the initially ionized species or a neighbour, respectively-have been well studied. However, electro...

Exploring Autoionization and Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Pathways of Phenol in Aqueous Solution.

The excited state dynamics of phenol in water have been investigated using transient absorption spectroscopy. Solvated electrons and vibrationally cold phenoxyl radicals are observed upon 200 and 267 nm excitation, but with formation time scales that differ by more than 4 orders of magnitude. The impact of these findings is assessed in terms of the relative importance of autoionization versus p...

The Role of Dielectric Continuum Models in Electron Transfer: Theoretical and Computational Aspects

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