Theoretical Study on the NO2＋NO2^— Electron Transfer Reaction

The NO2 NO2^- electron transfer reaction was studied with DFT-B3LYP method at 6-311 G^* basis set level for the eight selected structures:four species favor the structure of “head to head”.The geometry of transition state was obtained by the linear corrdinate method.Three parameters,non-adiabatic activation energy(Ead),coupling matrix element(Hif) and reorganization energy(λ) for electron transfer reaction can be calculated.According to the reorganization energy of the ET reaction,the values obtained from George-Griffith-Marcus (GGM) method(the contribution only from diagonal elements of force constant matrix) are larger than those obtained from Hessian matrix method(including the contribution from both diagonal and off-diagonal elements), which suggests that the coupling interactions between different vibrational modes are important to the inner-sphere reorganization energy for the ET reactions in gaseous phase.The value of rate constant was obtained by using above three activation parameters.     

Synthesis and photophysical properties of porphyrin-phthalocyanine heterodimer linked by piperazine

A porphyrin-phthalocyanine heterodimer linked by piperazine has been synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic methods.UV-visible absorption spectra indicated the presence of weak intramolecular interaction between the two chromophores.Selective excitation of the porphyrin moiety leads to energy transfer process to the phthalocyanine subunit.Furthermore,on the bases of the solvent-dependent fluorescence data,a competing electron transfer reaction is shown to occur in this heterodimer.The efficiency of both photophysical processes depends strongly on solvent polarity and is related to the separation distance of the two chromophores and their relative orientation.The value of △GET0 obtained using the Rehm-Weller equation clearly indicates that the heterodimer exists preferably in the "boat form" upon excitation in good agreement with the experimental results of co-occurence of energy and electron transfer process observed for the heterodimer.     

Dynamics and mode-selected reaction of NCO+H_2→HNCO+H

The reaction path of the reaction NCO+H2→HNCO + H has been traced by Fukui's theory and the ab initio method. On this basis, the dynamical properties along the reaction path, canonical variational theory (CVT) rate constants and vibrational-mode-selected rate constants have been computed. The results show that the effect of the electron correlation energy on the activation barrier is large, and tiros the correction by MP4 method is effective; the results also show that the recrossing and tunneling effects exist, and thus the corrections by the variational transition state theory (VTST) and the small curvature (SC) approximation method are also effective. In the reaction, the coupling and energy transfer between mode 8(7) and reaction path are strong, so the rate is effectively enhanced while these modes, especially H2 stretching, are vibrationally excited.     

Theoretical Study on Electron Transfer Matrix Element in Oxidation of α—Amino Carbon—Centered Radical by O2

As a successive work of our previous paper,^1the electron transfer matrix element(Vrp)in the oxidation of the simplified model molecule of α-amino carbon-centered radical by O2 has been investigated with ab initio calculation at the level of UHF/6-31 G**.Based on the optimized geometries of the reactgant and the ion-pair complex obtained previously,the reaction heat and the iuner reorganization energy have been obtained by constructing the potential energy curves of reactant and product states considering the solvent effect with the conductor-like screening model(COSMO).The solvent reorganization energy has been estimated using Lippert-Mataga relationship.The calculated results show that the value of Vrp is several times larger than that of RT,which means that the model reaction is an adiabatic one.Theoretical investigation indicates that the solvent effect on the direct electron transfer (ET) process of oxidation of α-amino carbon-centered radical by oxygen is remarkable.     

ION TRANSFER OF BROMOCRESOL PURPLE ACROSS THE LIQUID/LIQUID INTERFACES

In this paper, the ion transfer process of bromocresol purple(BCP) across the liquid/liquid interface has been described. The effects of the supporting eletrolyte in two phases and solvent on the transfer behavior of bromocresol purple have been investigated in detail and the relationship between the ion transfer and concentration of electrolytes in the organic phase is explained in terms of the dissociation of TBA~+ anti TPB~- in the organic phase. The proposed transfer mechanism for BCP has been proved to be reasonable by UV-spectroscopy of the products of the electrolysis in aqueous phase. The standard potential differences △_0~wφ~0 and standard Gibbs energies △_0~WG~0 of BCP transfer from water to some organic solvents are calculated. The dissociation constants of BCP obtained are in agreement with the literature values.     

Theoretical study on the Co~(2+)OH_2/Co~(3+)OH_2 electron transfer reactivity

This paper presents a contact distance dependence analysis scheme and an ab initio calculation application for the electron transfer (ET) reactivity of Co2+OH2/Co3+OH2 reacting pair. The applicability of these schemes and the corresponding models has been discussed. The contact distance (Rcoco) dependence of the relevant quantities has been analyzed. The results indicate that the activation energy from the accurate PES method agrees well with that from the anharmonic potential method, and they are obviously better than that from the harmonic potential method. The pair distribution function varies from 10~(-2) to 10~(-5) along with Rcoco changing from 1.20 to 0.35 nm. The coupling matrix element exponentially decays along with the increase of Rcoco, and the effective electronic coupling requires Rcoco smaller than 0.75 nm. In the range from 0.50 to 0.75 nm for Rcoco, the corresponding electronic transmission coefficient falls within 1.0-10~(-6). The local ET rate also exponentially decays along with the incre     

Two Typical Examples of Scaling Ionic Partition Scheme for Estimating Correlation Energy of A2 Type Molecules

Based on the calculation results of pair correlation energy contributions of the various electron pairs in Na2 and H2NNH2 systems and the application of the scaling ionic partition scheme for symmetrical A2 type systems, the total correlation energies of Na2 and H2NNH2 have been reproduced by using this simple scheme. The two results show that the absolute deviations are within an acceptable range of error, however, in this way, more than 90% of computational work can be saved. The most attractive result in present paper is that, in these two molecules the coefficients c1 and c2 in the estimation equation can be obtained by the proportion of correlation energy of A^- to that of A^ singlet system. Therefore, it is believed that the proposed ionic partition scheme for symmetrical A2 molecules would be very useful to estimate the correlation energies of large symmetrical molecules.     

Study on the energy transfer between UO_2~(2 ) and Eu~(3 ) in sol-gel derived titania matrix by luminescence spectroscopy

The TiO2 gel doped with UO22 and Eu3 has been prepared by a sol-gel method. The quenching of the UO22 emission by Eu3 and the energy transfer from the excited state of UO22 to the ground state of Eu3 have been investigated. The energy transfer has been studied by the measurement of luminescence lifetime τ, calculations of energy transfer efficiency ηET and energy transfer rate WET. The experimental results indicated that the quenching is combined static and dynamic mechanism, but the static mechanism is dominant.     

EFFECT OF THE COMPOSITION OF m-CRESOL/H2O SOLVENT ON HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF NYLON 6

The intrinsic viscosity [ η], Huggins constant (KH), [ η]0, α3 and flow activation energy values of nylon 6 have been measured in water/m-cresol (0/100-20/80) systems at different temperatures (20-60℃). It has been found that the intrinsic viscosity, [η]0 and α3 increase with the increase in water contents in m-cresol up to 15% and then decrease. They increase with the increase in temperature irrespective of solvent composition. It has been noted that the percent increase of α3 is the highest at 60℃ and the lowest at 20℃ for a particular solvent system. The intrinsic viscosity data obey Arrhenius equation over the considered conditions. The activation energy and the KH values decrease very sharply with the addition of water,giving a minimum value at 15% of water and then increase slowly. The variation of all the parameters has been explained in terms of variation in thermodynamic quality of solvent with the addition of water to m-cresol and change in temperature,resulting in the change of conformational and orientational properties of polymer molecules. This change of solvent quality also results in variation of selective sorption of solvent over the polymer, such as hydrogen bonding, etc.     

Diels-Alder Addition of Dicyclopentadiene with Cyclopentadiene in Polar Solvents

Diels-Alder addition of dicyclopentadiene and cyclopentadiene in polar solvents has been studied to produce tricyclopentadiene（TCPD） that is a potential high-density fuel precursor. GC and MS analysis shows that the adducts contain two isomers, namely exo- and endo-TCPD. Theoretical simulation shows that although the transition state of endo-TCPD has a lower activation energy, exo-TCPD is thermodynamically preferred. Polar solvents can accelerate the reaction rate and improve the exo/endo ratio of TCPD because the transition state of exo-TCPD has a higher polarity than that of endo-TCPD. The solvent effect follows the order of polarity： benzyl methanol〉cyclohexanone〉toluene. The conversion rises when the temperature ranges from 120 to 150 ℃, but the selectivity of TCPD slightly decreases. Increasing the pressure can improve the conversion but the exo/endo ratio of TCPD is unchanged. The apparent kinetics in different solvents was determined via nonlinear regression. The activation energies are 99.47, 101.15, and 107.32 kJ/mol for benzyl methanol, cyclohexanone, and toluene, respectively. The optimal reaction conditions are as follows： benzyl methanol as solvent, temperature 150 ℃, and pressure 900 kPa. After an 11-hour reaction, a conversion of 58.0%, a TCPD selectivity of 95.7%, and an exo/endo ratio of 1/5.3 has been obtained.     

STUDY ON ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS NO_2

The content of NO_2 in the atmosphere is one of the important factors for atmospheric environmental appreciation. An automatic solar spectrophotometer (ASS) system has been developed in order to observe the content of NO_2 in the atmosphere. The column content of atmospheric NO_2 has been obtained by use of radiative transfer equation and maximum resembled method, through the ground-based observation of direct solar radiative spectrum of 4470—4490. Some months' observations of NO_2 have been made in the suburbs of Beijing. The results have been discussed here.     

THE EFFECTS OF SOLVENTS ON THE INTRAMOLECULAR PROCESSES ——NMR STUDY

The influences of methanol-d_4(MeOD), dimethylsulfoxide-d_6 (Me_2SO(D)) and dioxane(C_4H_8O_2) solvents on the intramolecular processes are studied by NMR. It has been shown that the addition of these solvents in CdEGTA complex aqueous solution can increase the rate constant (k) of the nitrogen inversion and decrease the activation energy of this process. The linear relations between In(k) and the reciprocal of the solvent dielectric constants (1/ε) are obtained for all the three solvents.     

The effects of ultrasound frequency and power on the activation energy in Si-KOH reaction system

The activation energy is the minimum amount of energy required to initiate a reaction. It is one of the important indexes for appraising a reaction. The chemical reaction rate is closely related to the value of activation energy, and reducing activation energy is propitious to promoting a chemical reaction. In the present paper, the relationship between the activation energy in Si-KOH reaction system and the ultrasound frequency and power has been discussed for the first time. The range of ultrasound frequency and power is 40-100kHz （interval by 20kHz） and 10-50W （interval by 10W）, respectively. The experimental clata indicate that the activation energy decreases with the increasing ultrasound power. Comparing with the activation energy without ultrasound irradiation, the results in our paper indicate that ultrasound irradiation could reduce the activation energy in Si-KOH reaction system and increase the reaction rate.     

PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER I.INTER-AND INTRAMOLECULAR QUENCHING OF ZINC PHTHALOCYANINE FLUORESCENCE BY ANTHRAQUINONE

Inter-and intramolecular quenching of zinc phthalocyaninefluorescence by anthraquinone has been studied.The diminutions offluorescence quantum yield and life-time are due primarily to electrontransfer.Apparent electron transfer rate constants were calculateddepending on the chain length and solvent polarity.     

Ab initio study of long-range electron transfer between biphenyl anion radical and naphthalene

After the separation of the donor, the aeceptor, and the σ-type bridge from the π-σ-π system, the geometries of biphenyl, biphenyl anion radical, naphthalene, and naphthalene anion radical are optimized, and then the reorganization energy for the intermolecular electron transfer (ET) at the levels of HF/4-31G and HF/DZP is calculated. The ET matrix elements of the self-exchange reactions of the π-σ-π systems have been calculated by means of both the direct calculation based on the variational principle, and the transition energy between the molecular orbitals at the linear coordinate R=0.5. For the cross reactions, the ET matrix element and the geometry of the transition state are determined by searching the minimum energy splitting △_(min) along the reaction coordinate. In the evaluation of the solvent reorganization energy of the ET in solution, the Marcus' two-sphere model has been invoked. A few of ET rate constants for the intramolecular ET reactions for the π-σ-π systems, which contain     

Thermodynamics for nonequilibrium solvation and numerical evaluation of solvent reorganization energy

This work presents a thermodynamic method for treating nonequilibrium solvation. By imposing an extra electric field onto the nonequilibrium solvation system, a virtual constrained equilibrium state is prepared. In this way, the free energy difference between the real nonequilibrium state and the con-strained equilibrium one is simply the potential energy of the nonequilibrium polarization in the extra electronic field, according to thermodynamics. Further, new expressions of nonequilibrium solvation energy and solvent reorganization energy have been formulated. Analysis shows that the present formulations will give a value of reorganization energy about one half of the traditional Marcus theory in polar solvents, thus the explanation on why the traditional theory tends to overestimate this quantity has been found out. For the purpose of numerical determination of solvent reorganization energy, we have modified Gamess program on the basis of dielectric polarizable continuum model. Applying the procedure to the well-investigated intramolecular electron transfer in biphenyl-androstane-naphthyl and biphenyl-androstane-phenanthryl systems, the numerical results of solvent reorganization energy have been found to be in good agreement with the experimental fittings.     

Effect of solvent on the free energy of activation of S_N2 reaction between phenacyl bromide and amines

The kinetics of SN2 reaction between phenacyl bromide and various amines in 12 different solvents were studied. Solvent effects on the rate of this reaction and free energy of activation, ΔG# , were interpreted by applying the Abraham-Kam-let-Taft (AKT) equation. UK solvent polarity (π1*), solvent hydrogen-bond basicity (β1) and Hildebrand cohesive density energy (δH2) are those parameters which increase the rate constant and decrease ΔG# , while solvent hydrogen-bond acidity (α1) will have the compensatory effect. A comparison among obtained values of second rate constants, k2, for different amines in a given solvent indicates that the amine reactivities are highly dependent on their structures. The consequent decrease of the rate constant for different amines in any given solvent was found to be: primary > secondary> tertiary. This order results from steric effects of amines.     

Laser photolysis of interaction of poly-guanylic acid (5'''') with anthraquinone-2-sulfonate

The electron transfer reaction between triplet anthraquinone-2-sulfonate and poly-guanylic acid (5') in CH3CN-H2O (97 : 3) has been investigated by 248 nm (KrF) laser flash photolysis. The transient absorption spectra and kinetics obtained from the interaction of triplet anthraquinone-2-sulfonate and poly[G] demonstrate that the primary ionic radical pair, radical cation of poly[G] and radical anion of anthraquinone-2-sulfonate have been detected simultaneously. The free energy changes in the process of the electron transfer were also calculated.     

Theoretical Study on Reactivity of Electron Transfer in Model—System of Oxidation of α—Amino Carbon—centered Radical by O2

Electron transfer reaction between a simplified model model molecule of α－amino carbon-centered radical and O2 has studied with ab initio calculations at the MP2/6-31 G^**//UHF/6-31 G^** level,The reactant complex and the ion pair complex have been optimized and employed to perform calculation of the reaction heat and the reorganization energy,Solvent effects have been considered by applyning the conductor-like screening model,Theoretical results show that the highly endothermic charge separation process ,in which one electron transfers from the α－amino carbon-centered radical to O2,so as to form an ion pair complex,is difficult to occur in gas-phase,By apply-ing an external electronic field to prepare the charge-locallized molecular orbitals,the charge-separated state has been obtained using the initial-guess-induced self-consistent field technique,The theoretical investigations indicate that the solvent effect in the process of the oxidation of α-animo carbon-centered radical by O2 is remarkable.From the rate constant estima-tion ,it can be predicted that the oxidation of the model donor molecule by O2 can proceed,but not very fast.A peroxyl radi-cal compound has been found to be a competitive intermediate in the oxidation process.     

Study on Pair Correlation Energies of Isoelectronic Systems F^－, HF and H2F^＋

The intrapair and interpair correlation energies of F-, HF and H2F^ systems are calculated and analyzed using MP2-OPT2 method of MELD program with cc-PVSZ^* basis set. From the analysis of pair correlation energies of these isoelectronlc sysoterns, it is found that the 1sF^2 pair correlation energy is trans-ferable in these three isociectronic systems. According to the definition of pair correlation contribution of one electron pair to a system, the pair correlation contribution values of these three systems are calculated. The correlation contribution values of inner electron pairs and H—F bonding electron pair in HF molecule with those in H2F^ system are compared. The results indicate that the bonding effect of a molecule is one of the im-portant factors to influence electron correlation energy of the system. The comparison of correlation energy contributions in-cluding triple and quadruple excitations with those only includ-ing singles and doubles calculated with 6-311 G(d) basis set shows that the higher.excitation correlation energy contribution gives more than 2 % of the total correlation energy for these sys-tems.