scholarly journals Solvent and Temperature Effects on Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in the Marcus Inverted Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 (35) ◽  
pp. 7670-7684
Author(s):  
Laura F. Cotter ◽  
Belinda Pettersson Rimgard ◽  
Giovanny A. Parada ◽  
James M. Mayer ◽  
Leif Hammarström

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 364 (6439) ◽  
pp. 471-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanny A. Parada ◽  
Zachary K. Goldsmith ◽  
Scott Kolmar ◽  
Belinda Pettersson Rimgard ◽  
Brandon Q. Mercado ◽  
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Electron transfer reactions slow down when they become very thermodynamically favorable, a counterintuitive interplay of kinetics and thermodynamics termed the inverted region in Marcus theory. Here we report inverted region behavior for proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET). Photochemical studies of anthracene-phenol-pyridine triads give rate constants for PCET charge recombination that are slower for the more thermodynamically favorable reactions. Photoexcitation forms an anthracene excited state that undergoes PCET to create a charge-separated state. The rate constants for return charge recombination show an inverted dependence on the driving force upon changing pyridine substituents and the solvent. Calculations using vibronically nonadiabatic PCET theory yield rate constants for simultaneous tunneling of the electron and proton that account for the results.





2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (44) ◽  
pp. 14545-14548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Edwards ◽  
Alexander V. Soudackov ◽  
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer


2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (36) ◽  
pp. 10704-10715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumbhakar ◽  
Arpan Manna ◽  
Mhejabeen Sayed ◽  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Haridas Pal




1994 ◽  
Vol 101 (8) ◽  
pp. 6640-6647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Dakhnovskii ◽  
Robert Doolen ◽  
John D. Simon


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