Photo-induced intramolecular electron transfer and intramolecular vibrational relaxation of rhodamine 6G in DMSO revealed by multiplex transient grating spectroscopy

Photo-induced intramolecular electron transfer （PIET） and intramolecular vibrational relaxation （IVR） dynamics of the excited state of rhodamine 6G （Rh6G＋） in DMSO are investigated by multiplex transient grating. Two major compo- nents are resolved in the dynamics of Rh6G＋. The first component, with a lifetime τTPIET = 140 fs-260 fs, is attributed to PIET from the phenyl ring to the xanthene plane. The IVR process occurring in the range ZIVR = 3.3 ps-5.2 ps is much slower than the first component. The PIET and IVR processes occurring in the excited state of Rh6G＋ are quantitatively determined, and a better understanding of the relationship between these processes is obtained.     

InGaN薄膜中电子自旋偏振弛豫的时间分辨吸收光谱研究

采用飞秒时间分辨圆偏振光抽运-探测光谱对In_01Ga_09N薄膜的电子自旋注入和弛豫进行了研究.获得初始自旋偏振度约为02,此结果支持在圆偏振光激发下,重、轻空穴带的跃迁强度比为3∶1,而不支持1∶1或1∶094的观点同时获得自旋偏振弛豫时间为490±70ps,定性分析了自旋弛豫机理,认为BAP机理是电子自旋弛豫的主要机理. 关键词： 电子自旋 InGaN 自旋极化 自旋弛豫     

光合作用原初过程能量和电荷超快传递过程原理浅析

文章侧重于从物理的角度,介绍光合作用原初过程中能量和电荷超快传递过程的相关物理化学原理,如费米黄金规则,Frster及Dexter传能机制,Marcus电荷转移理论及激子理论.辨析相关原理的适用范围、共性及差异,并力图在上述相关原理的基础上阐述光合膜蛋结构与功能的关系,勾画出该研究方向的基本脉络.     

Evidence for resonance electron transfer in photon excited X-ray satellite spectra of fluorine compounds

The KαL¹/KαL⁰ intensity ratio of fluorine is measured in five fluorine compounds with a crystal spectrometer. An anomalous reduction of this intensity ratio was observed in KF and SrF₂, which is attributed to resonance electron transfer from the metal ion to the spectator vacancy in the fluorine ion. KαL²/KαL⁰ intensity ratio of fluorine is also measured. The measured relative intensities are compared with the theoretical estimates of Aberg. Formerly RSIC     

Increased Accuracy of the Binding Energy of K- and L-Subshell Electrons in Krypton from Re-analysis of Experimental Data: Importance for Determination of the Neutrino Mass

Analyzing thoroughly K and L X-ray transition energies, results of the former L-shell photoabsorption study and M subshell binding energies from photoelectron and optical spectroscopy, we determined the following electron binding energies in gaseous krypton: 14 327.26(4) eV for the K-shell and 1 921.4(3), 1 731.91(3) and 1 679.21(3) eV for L₁-, L₂-, and L₃-subshells, respectively. These accurate values of electron binding energies are important for energy calibration of the next generation tritium -decay experiment KATRIN with sub-eV sensitivity for the electron-neutrino mass.     

电子在蛋白质分子中的迁移机理及其特性

ATP水解作用所释放的能量能引起蛋白质分子中额外电子的激发,其激发与氨基酸残基晶格畸变相互作用,使额外电子自陷成孤子,这孤子在附着有供体(D)和受体(A)的蛋白质分子中运动时,由于孤子与供体电子的相互作用而"自局域"在孤子上进行迁移,从而可把电子供给受体.使用作者提出的孤子理论研究了这种迁移的特征,计算了在这种非平衡态过程中由孤子迁移电子的速率和动能系数,得到了一些有趣的结果,揭示了这种迁移的本质,求得了迁移的大小.     

Evidence for the purely electronic character of primary electron transfer in purple bacteria Rh. Sphaeroides

A quantum-chemical calculation of the excited electronic states of a Rh. Sphaeroides reaction centre was performed. We discovered a new excited electronic state which can participate in electron transfer (ET). The energy gradient calculations showed that photoexcitation activates only high-frequency vibrational modes. This contradicts the widely accepted picture of ET resulting from vibrational wave packet motion. An alternative model is suggested where ET has a purely dissipative character and occurs only due to pigment--protein interaction. With this model, we demonstrate that oscillations in the femtosecond spectra can be caused by the new electronic state and non-Markovian character of dissipative dynamics.     

Structural requirements for efficient photoinduced electron transfer (PET) quenching in 9-aminoalkylanthracenes

The structure-quenching relationship in 9-aminoalkylanthracenes is examined by the synthesis and fluorescence evaluation of five derivatives; it is observed that benzylic 2° and 3° amines lead to 95% quenching of anthracene fluorescence in water, while other amines afford substantially lower quenching efficiencies.     

调制光/电作用下染料敏化太阳电池中电荷传输和界面转移研究

详细讨论了染料敏化太阳电池(DSC)在稳态光照射或外加偏压下电荷的传输和转移过程,以及在调制光/电作用下电池的频率响应特点.通过电化学阻抗谱、光电化学阻抗谱、强度调制光电流谱和强度调制光电压谱等四种频谱光电测试手段,对DSC中TiO₂薄膜电子传输和界面转移的相关时间常数进行测量.详细分析和比较了电荷的传输及转移过程对时间常数的影响.结果表明,在低光强或低偏压下电荷传输和转移过程对时间常数影响较小,但在高光强或高偏压下对电子寿命影响明显.     

Photoinduced energy transfer in blend films of hole and electron transport materials

The photoluminescence properties of the blend films consisting of the hole transport and electron transport materials, PVK and Alq₃, are studied by steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. Both the relative intensity and the photoluminescence lifetime are intensively dependent of the weight ratios of PVK and Alq₃. The detailed analysis of experiment data provides clear evidence for a Förster energy transfer from excited PVK, as donor, to Alq₃, as acceptor, based on nonradiative resonant transfer mechanism, and allows the determination of Förster radius and the concentration dependent energy transfer efficiency.     

Quadrupole relaxation enhancement and polarisation transfer in DMSO solution of [Bi(NO3)3(H2O)3]*18-crown-6 in solid state

ABSTRACT

¹H spin-lattice relaxation studies have been performed for pure [Bi(NO₃)₃(H₂O)₃]*18-crown-6 in powder and its solution in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The experiments have been carried out in the frequency range of 10?kHz–30?MHz and the temperature range of 240–277?K; at 277?K the solution is already frozen. The ¹H relaxation of pure [Bi(NO₃)₃(H₂O)₃]*18-crown-6 has been interpreted in terms of three dynamical processes. Quadrupole Relaxation Enhancement effects have been observed in the frozen DMSO solution of [Bi(NO₃)₃(H₂O)₃]*18-crown-6. The specific mechanisms of the ¹H spin-lattice relaxation enhancement have been discussed distinguishing between effects caused by time independent (residual) and fluctuating ¹H-²⁰⁹Bi dipole-dipole interactions.     

Model for primary electron transfer and coupling of electronic states at reaction centers of purple bacteria

A detailed derivation is presented for relations making it possible to describe the effect of temperature on the halfwidth of the P960 and P870 absorption bands and also on the electron transfer (ET) rate at reaction centers (RCs) of the purple bacteria Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides. Primary electron transfer is considered as a resonant nonradiative transition between P* and P⁺B _L ⁻ states (where P is a special pair, B_L is an additional bacteriochlorophyll in the L branch of the reaction center). It has been shown that the vibrational h_α mode with frequency 130–150 cm⁻¹ controls primary electron transfer. It has been found that the matrix element of the electronic transition between the states P* and P⁺B _L ⁻ is equal to 12.7 ± 0.9 and 12.0 ± 1.2 cm⁻¹ for Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides respectively. The mechanism is discussed for electron transport from P* and B_L and then to bacteriopheophytin H_L. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 294–303, May–June, 2006.     

Revisiting the sodium and calcium matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. Excitation mechanisms by inelastic collisions

Abstract

The dependence of calcium and sodium matrix effects on the total excitation energy of analyte emission signals was used as a tool for the study of excitation mechanisms in radial view mode inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy. A total of 95 atomic and 66 ionic emission signals of aluminum, cobalt, chromium, iron, magnesium, manganese, nickel, and silicon in the 3.0–17.59?eV energy range were measured at the non-robust plasma operating conditions to facilitate the matrix effect study. Different matrix effects versus total excitation energy relationships were observed regarding the energy interval. The change of sign from negative to positive of the both matrix effect versus total excitation energy relationship observed around 14?eV, in the 12.06–17.59?eV energy range, is interpreted as experimental evidence of the action of two non-thermic excitation mechanisms: Penning ionization from approximately 12 to 14?eV and charge transfer from 14 to 17?eV. Based on the energy resonance principle and total spin conservation Wigner’s Theorem, possible reactions between excited ionic argon and ground state analyte ions were proposed.     

中、高能电子被SO2分子散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面

在考虑分子内成键原子间的电子云重叠效应的基础上,提出了一种能够准确计算“中、高能电子-分子”散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面的修正势方法.利用可加性规则、使用Hartree-Fock波函数并采用被这一方法修正过的复光学势,在100—1000eV内对电子被SO2分子散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面进行了计算,并将计算结果与实验及其他理论结果进行比较.结果表明,利用这一修正过的复光学势及可加性规则获得的微分截面比利用未修正的复光学势及可加性规则得到的结果准确得多,计算得到的动量转移截面及弹性积分截面在入射电子能量不低于200eV时也都比较接近实验值.     

Coulomb effects in polarization transfer in elastic antiproton and proton electron scattering at low energies

The influence of Coulomb distortion on the polarization transfer in elastic proton and antiproton electron scattering at low energies is calculated in a distorted-wave Born approximation. For antiproton electron scattering Coulomb effects reduce substantially the polarization transfer cross-section compared to the plane-wave Born approximation, whereas for proton electron scattering they lead to a dramatic increase for kinetic proton lab energies below about 20keV.     

Ultrasonic and optical studies on charge transfer complexes of p-chloranil with certain aromatic hydrocarbons in DMSO at 303.15 K

Ultrasonic investigation has been carried out on six ternary systems to establish the complex formation between p-chloranil (acceptor) and six aromatic hydrocarbons (donors), namely, benzene, toluene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene and mesitylene in DMSO medium at 303.15 K and at atmospheric pressure. Studies were carried out in the concentration range of 0.002 to 0.02 M of acceptor and donor with equimolar concentration of the two components in solution. The trend in the acoustical parameters and magnitude of excess thermo acoustical parameters has been used to identify the existence of strong intermolecular interaction through charge transfer complex formation. The formation of 1:1 complex was also confirmed by UV-Visible spectroscopic method at 303.15 K in these systems. It may be pointed out that the formation constants of the charge transfer complexes determined by Benesi-Hildebrand (spectroscopic) and Kannappan (ultrasonic) methods show similar trend and well establish the influence of structural aspect of the donor aromatic compounds on the stability of charge transfer complexes.     

Electron spin relaxation enhancement measurements of interspin distances in human, porcine, and Rhodobacter electron transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF-QO)

Electron transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF-QO) is a membrane-bound electron transfer protein that links primary flavoprotein dehydrogenases with the main respiratory chain. Human, porcine, and Rhodobacter sphaeroides ETF-QO each contain a single [4Fe-4S](2+,1+) cluster and one equivalent of FAD, which are diamagnetic in the isolated enzyme and become paramagnetic on reduction with the enzymatic electron donor or with dithionite. The anionic flavin semiquinone can be reduced further to diamagnetic hydroquinone. The redox potentials for the three redox couples are so similar that it is not possible to poise the proteins in a state where both the [4Fe-4S](+) cluster and the flavoquinone are fully in the paramagnetic form. Inversion recovery was used to measure the electron spin-lattice relaxation rates for the [4Fe-4S](+) between 8 and 18K and for semiquinone between 25 and 65K. At higher temperatures the spin-lattice relaxation rates for the [4Fe-4S](+) were calculated from the temperature-dependent contributions to the continuous wave linewidths. Although mixtures of the redox states are present, it was possible to analyze the enhancement of the electron spin relaxation of the FAD semiquinone signal due to dipolar interaction with the more rapidly relaxing [4Fe-4S](+) and obtain point-dipole interspin distances of 18.6+/-1A for the three proteins. The point-dipole distances are within experimental uncertainty of the value calculated based on the crystal structure of porcine ETF-QO when spin delocalization is taken into account. The results demonstrate that electron spin relaxation enhancement can be used to measure distances in redox poised proteins even when several redox states are present.     

中、高能电子被SO2分子散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面

在考虑分子内成键原子间的电子云重叠效应的基础上, 提出了一种能够准确计算“中、高能电子-分子”散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面的修正势方法. 利用可加性规则、使用Hartree-Fock波函数并采用被这一方法修正过的复光学势, 在100—1000eV内对电子被SO₂分子散射的微分截面、动量转移截面及弹性积分截面进行了计算, 并将计算结果与实验及其他理论结果进行比较. 结果表明, 利用这一修正过的复光学势及可加性规则获得的微分截面比利用未修正的复光学势及可加性规则得到的结果准 关键词： 可加性规则 微分截面 动量转移截面 电子散射     

Kinetics and mechanism of electron transfer reaction of single and double chain surfactant cobalt(III) complex by Fe2+ ions in liposome (dipalmitoylphosphotidylcholine) vesicles: effects of phase transition

In this study, we report the kinetics of reduction reactions of single and double chain surfactant cobalt(III) complexes of octahedral geometry, cis-[Co(en)₂(4AMP)(DA)](ClO₄)₃ and cis-[Co(dmp)₂(C₁₂H₂₅NH₂)₂](ClO₄)₃ (en = ethylenediamine, dmp = 1,3-diaminopropane, 4AMP = 4-aminopropane, C₁₂H₂₅NH₂ = dodecylamine) by Fe²⁺ ion in dipalmitoylphosphotidylcholine (DPPC) vesicles at different temperatures under pseudo first-order conditions. The kinetics of these reactions is followed by spectrophotometry method. The reactions are found to be second order and the electron transfer is postulated as outer sphere. The remarkable findings in the present investigation are that, below the phase transition temperature of DPPC, the rate decreases with an increase in the concentration of DPPC, while above the phase transition temperature the rate increases with an increase in the concentration of DPPC. The main driving force for this phenomenon is considered to be the intervesicular hydrophobic interaction between vesicles surface and hydrophobic part of the surfactant complexes. Besides, comparing the values of rate constants of these outer-sphere electron transfer reactions in the absence and in the presence of DPPC, the rate constant values in the presence of DPPC are always found to be greater than in the absence of DPPC. This is ascribed to the double hydrophobic fatty acid chain in the DPPC that gives the molecule an overall tubular shape due to the intervesicular hydrophobic interaction between vesicles surface and hydrophobic part of the surfactant complexes more suitable for vesicle aggregation which facilitates lower activation energy, and consequently higher rate is observed in the presence of DPPC. The activation parameters (ΔS^# and ΔH^#) of the reactions at different temperatures have been calculated which corroborate the kinetics of the reaction.     

Intramolecular electron transfer and charge delocalization in bistable donor–acceptor systems based on perchlorotriphenylmethyl radicals linked to ferrocene and tetrathiafulvalene units

A comparative analysis of the physicochemical properties of different donor–acceptor dyads, based on a perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical acceptor subunit linked through a vinylene π‐bridge to ferrocene derivatives (1–3) or a tetrathiafulvalene (4) donor subunit, is presented. Intramolecular electron transfer and charge delocalization of these donor–acceptor dyads are discussed on the basis of data obtained in solution by cyclic voltammetry, UV–Vis near‐infrared, and electron spin resonance spectroscopies. Bistability in the crystalline phase is also discussed on the basis of the results provided by X‐ray diffraction analysis and temperature‐dependent Mössbauer spectra. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.