Authors
Ilya Rips, Joseph Klafter, Joshua Jortner
Publication date
1990/11
Journal
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Volume
94
Issue
23
Pages
8557-8561
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Description
In this paper we investigate solvent size effects on solvent-controlled electron transfer (ET) in polar liquids. An interrelationship was established between the solvation time correlation function and the ET rate, which was presented within the first passage time approximation. For the case of activationless ET the ET rate, which is equal to the initial solvation rate, was expressed within the frameworkof the mean spherical approximation. The theory predicts that the activationless ET times are shorter than the average dipole solvation times, in accord with experimental data for intramolecular ET in electronically excited bianthryl in nonassociated polar solvents.
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I Rips, J Klafter, J Jortner - Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1990