Intramolecular energy transfer reactions in polymetallic complexes

A series of polymetallic complexes are being developed for use in converting solar radiation to usable chemical potential energy. The system is made up of three components: 1) A highly-absorbing (antenna) metal center which absorbs visible light but is photochemically unreactive; 2) A second metal center which undergoes a useful chemical reaction from a non-spectroscopic excited state; and 3) A bridging ligand which couples the two metal fragments and facilitates intramolecular energy transfer from the antenna to the reactive fragment. This paper will focus on optimizing the three components of the system.     

Isotopic effects of carbon and nitrogen in low-temperature photochemical reactions

Isotopic effects of carbon and nitrogen in the low-temperature photodecomposition of benzoyl peroxide and diazoaminobenzene have been observed and discussed in terms of preferential electronic energy transfer to species containing lighter isotopes.     

Resonance energy exchange effects in atmospheric transmission due to pollutants

It is shown that resonant energy exchange between two gases can alter the absorption of radiation by either, and that hydrocarbons present up to 100 ppm in the atmosphere as pollutants affect its absorption at 10.6 μ. This reduces the initial cooling time reported in the transmission of 10.6 μ laser beams in the atmosphere.     

Diffusion effects in reversible energy transfer

Back energy transfer reduces the apparent quenching constant, which is an important parameter in the interpretation of energy transfer data. This determination of kinetic results may be erroneous when possible diffusion effects and non-uniform configurational distributions are not taken into account.

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Quantum effects in intramolecular energy transfer

Anharmonic potentials which are presumed to be classically quasi-ergodic, but which have symmetries leading to degenerate quantum states, fail in the quantum case to transfer energy equivalently among rigorously equivalent phase space locations. This is shown using simple group theory and is illustrated for the case of the Henon-Heiles potential     

Salt effects in photoinduced electron transfer reactions

Metal salts and oxygen react synergistically to inhibit back-electron-transfer in photoinduced reactions.     

Nonameric porphyrin assemblies--formation and intra-assembly energy transfer reactions

The nonameric porphyrin assemblies constructed with the series of free base tetraphenylporphyrins Pn having four pyrazine moieties linked with alkyl chains of different lengths, (CH2)n (n = 1, 5, 9, 17, 30), and dimeric [meso-tetrakis(2-carboxy-4-nonylphenyl)porphyrinato]zinc(II), ZnP2, show the effective light-collection effect and the typical Forster-type energy transfer from ZnP2 to Pn.     

Semi-empirical potential energy surfaces for hydrogen-atom transfer reactions

A method for constructing potential energy surfaces previously proposed by the author has been extended to hydrogen transfer reactions between halide, oxygen, and carbon atoms. A qualitative relation was found between the repulsive energy and the number of anti-bonding electrons. In general, the calculated kinetic isotope effect is in satisfactory agreement with observed values and the contributions by H-atom tunneling to the rate of reaction is smaller than that obtained from other surfaces.     

Vibrational energy transfer in near resonance due to dipole–dipole interactions

The contribution of long-range forces to the observed rates of V → V energy transfer processes has been studied. The theoretical model uses the first order perturbation approximation to generate a probability function, with the dipole–dipole perturbing potential as given by Margenau: V_if = [(1/6)^1/2_{μ1 · μ2}]R^?3. The probability function derived is shown to be a strong function of the energy mismatch between the IR bands of the colliding molecules. The calculation emphasizes the importance of rotational state population effects, the most important J states being those which minimize the energy mismatch. A complete analysis of energy transfer between CO(v) and COS(000) where v = 1,2, ? 13 is presented. The calculation reveals the importance of combination bands in the energy transfer mechanism of polyatomics. The temperature dependence for near-resonant processes is also studied and the importance of the V → R energy transfer leads to the classification of ω₀ (band-center energy mismatch) into three categories small, medium, and large, according to the temperature dependence that the corresponding processes exhibit. The predictions of the theoretical model are compared to experimental data for the same system.     

Activation energy and nonequilibrium effects in thermal reactions

Calculations of the nonequilibrium rate constant for the model system H₂O₂ + M → 2 OH + M over the temperature range of 300–1900°K, assuming that only vibrational, or that both vibrational and rotational, energy is transferred in a collision, show that (1) inefficient energy transfer leads to a distinctly non-Arrhenius temperature dependence, the nonlinearity being in principle different for different M, and (2) despite different activation energies for different M, the order of M efficiencies is preserved throughout the temperature range. A reversal of M efficiencies can occur only if there is a change of mechanism of the reaction over the temperature range investigated.     

Isotope effects and medium effects on sulfuryl transfer reactions

Kinetic isotope effects and medium effects have been measured for sulfuryl-transfer reactions of the sulfate ester p-nitrophenyl sulfate (pNPS). The results are compared to those from previous studies of phosphoryl transfer, a reaction with mechanistic similarities. The N-15 and the bridge O-18 isotope effects for the reaction of the pNPS anion are very similar to those of the p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP) dianion. This indicates that in the transition states for both reactions the leaving group bears nearly a full negative charge resulting from a large degree of bond cleavage to the leaving group. The nonbridge O-18 isotope effects support the notion that the sulfuryl group resembles SO(3) in the transition state. The reaction of the neutral pNPS species in acid solution is mechanistically similar to the reaction of the pNPP monoanion. In both cases proton transfer from a nonbridge oxygen atom to the leaving group is largely complete in the transition state. Despite their mechanistic similarities, the phosphoryl- and sulfuryl-transfer reactions differ markedly in their response to medium effects. Increasing proportions of the aprotic solvent DMSO to aqueous solutions of pNPP cause dramatic rate accelerations of up to 6 orders of magnitude, but only a 50-fold rate increase is observed for pNPS. Similarly, phosphoryl transfer from the pNPP dianion to tert-amyl alcohol is 9000-fold faster than the aqueous reaction, while the sulfuryl transfer from the pNPS anion is some 40-fold slower. The enthalpic and entropic contributions to these differing medium effects have been measured and compared.     

Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer to measure distances along individual DNA molecules: corrections due to nonideal transfer

Single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer has been extensively used to measure distance changes and kinetics in various biomolecular systems. However, due to complications involving multiple de-excitation pathways of the dyes, the absolute inter-dye distance information has seldom been recovered. To circumvent this we directly probe the relative variations in the quantum yield of individual fluorophores. B-DNA was used as a scaffold to position the donor (Cy3 or TMR) at precise distances from the acceptor (Cy5) within the Forster radius. We found that the variation in the Cy3 quantum yield is approximately 5 times larger than that of TMR. By taking into account the molecule-to-molecule variability in the acceptor/donor quantum yield ratio, the apparent fluorescence resonance energy transfer efficiencies were scaled to yield the theoretical values. We obtained very good agreement with a physical model that predicts distances along B-DNA.     

Thermal energy charge transfer reactions of acetone and biacetyl

Rate coefficients up to a factor of 2.5 times larger than the capture collision rate are reported for a series of thermal energy, positive ion-molecule reactions of acetone and biacetyl. These rapid rates are interpreted in tems of a dissociative charge transfer process in which an electron is transferred in a non-spiralling collision from outside the classical capture limit. The factor which lead to this type of mechanism are discussed briefly.     

相转移催化反应中界面性能的研究

过去在研究相转移催化反应机理时仅考虑在相转移催化剂作用下反应物、中间体(离子)、产物在两相间的转移,并导致两相间反应进行。我们以研究结果证明水相的表面能和两相的界面能与相转移催化反应的结果有密切关系。     

Hofmeister effects at low salt concentration due to surface charge transfer

We present a theoretical comparison of the surface forces between two graphite-like surfaces at salt concentrations below 10 mM with surfaces charged by various mechanisms. Surface forces include a surface charging or chemisorption contribution to the total free energy. Surfaces are charged by charge regulation (H⁺ binding), site competition (H⁺ and cation binding) and redox charging with electrodes coupled to a countercell. Constant surface charge is also considered. Surface parameters are calibrated to give the same potential when isolated. Nonelectrostatic physisorption energies of the potential determining ions provide a specific and significant contribution to the charging energy. Consequently ion specificity is found in the surface forces at concentrations of 1–10 mM, which is not observed under constant charge conditions. The force between redox electrodes continues to show Hofmeister effects at 0.01 mM. We refer to this low concentration Hofmeister effect as “Hofmeister charging”, and suggest that the more common high concentration ion specific effects may be known as “Hofmeister screening”. Hofmeister series are considered over LiCl, NaCl, KCl and NaNO₃, NaClO₄, NaSCN with the cations (or H⁺) being the potential determining ions. A K⁺ anomaly is attributed to the small size of the weakly hydrated chaotropic K⁺ ion, with Li⁺ and Na⁺ explicitly modelled as strongly hydrated cosmotropes.     

Molecular structure effects in intramolecular electronic energy transfer

A study of intramolecular energy transfer (intra-ET) in a series of bichromophoric molecules composed of cyclic α-diketones and para substituted benzene ring is reported. Preliminary results show that the transfer efficiency is strongly structure dependent suggesting that Dexter-type exchange interaction is responsible for intra-ET between close chromophores in a bichromophoric molecule.     

Substrate dependent solvent effects in nucleophilic fluorine transfer reactions

The rate of fluorination of organic substrates by potassium fluoride in aprotic solvents is subject to substrate dependent solvent effects.     

A model study of intramolecular energy transfer in polyatomic molecular reactions

Summary This paper reports a model study of intramolecular energy transfer in unimolecular isomerization reaction of cyclobutanone. The calculations of intramolecular energy flow were carried out using the theory of Gray and Rice as extended by Zhao and Rice. The results of the calculations are compared to those of local Lyapunov function analysis, and the agreement is found to be uniformly good.