Competition between superexchange-mediated and sequential electron transfer in a bridged donor-acceptor system |
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Authors: | Winters Mikael U Pettersson Karin Mårtensson Jerker Albinsson Bo |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | The temperature- and solvent-dependence of photoinduced electron-transfer reactions in a porphyrin-based donor-bridge-acceptor (DBA) system is studied by fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy. Two competing processes occur: sequential and direct superexchange-mediated electron transfer. In a weakly polar solvent (2-methyltetrahydrofuran), only direct electron transfer from the excited donor to the appended acceptor is observed, and this process has weak temperature dependence. In polar solvents (butyronitrile and dimethylformamide), both processes are observed and the sequential electron transfer shows strong temperature dependence. In systems where both electron transfer processes are observed, the long-range superexchange-mediated process is more than two times faster than the sequential process, even though the donor-acceptor distance is significantly larger in the former case. |
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Keywords: | electron transfer porphyrin sequential electron transfer solvent effects superexchange |
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