Electron transfer or quantum tunneling dynamics for excess or solvated electrons in dilute lithium-ammonia solutions have been studied by pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy at both X- (9.7 GHz) and W-band (94 GHz) frequencies. The electron spin-lattice (T(1)) and spin-spin (T(2)) relaxation data indicate an extremely fast transfer or quantum tunneling rate of the solvated ...

Femtosecond time resolved vibrational sum frequency generation has been used for the first time to probe a chemical reaction involving interfacial molecules pumped into their excited electronic states. The ultrafast dynamics of electron transfer from ground state N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA) to photoexcited coumarin 314 at a water/DMAmonolayer interface was obtained. The forward electron transfer ...

The mitochondrial steroid-hydroxylating system in vertebrates and the NADPH producing electron transfer chain in photosynthetic organisms contain structurally and functionally similar components. Examination of a potential hybrid reconstitution of the electron transfer chain between different components of both systems could help to improve our knowledge on protein-protein interaction and subse...

The reorganization energy of electron transfer processes in ionic fluids is studied under the linear response approximation using a molecule Debye-Hückel theory. Reorganization energies of some model reactants of electron transfer reactions in molten salts are obtained from molecular simulations and a molecule Debye-Hückel approach. Good agreements between simulation results and the results fro...

We present an interesting consequence of the differences between cross-conjugated and linearly conjugated molecules: the breakdown of conventional understanding of trends in molecular electron transfer. Interference effects are dominant in cross-conjugated molecules with unusual results: long molecules may have faster rates of electron transfer than short molecules, saturated molecules may have...

In the present work basic aspects of the bimolecular electron transfer processes have been studied by photochemical means and the heterogeneous electrochemical electron transfer processes have been applied in corrosion research and electroanalysis. Photoinduced electron transfer (ET) reactions were studied from the fluorescence quenching experiments using coumarins and quinones as the fluoropho...

Specific metabolic roles of P450-dependent monooxygenase systems are determined by enzymatic properties and substrate specificity of P450s, the terminal enzymes of the electron transfer chain. On the other hand, molecular diversity has also been reported for NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase, cytochrome b5, and cytochrome b5 reductase in plants. Several lines of evidence indicate that the electro...