The kinetics of photoinduced electron-transfer (ET) reactions have been measured in a series of synthetic donor-acceptor complexes. The electron donors are singlet or triplet excited iridium(I) dimers (Ir2), and the acceptors are N-alkylpyridinium groups covalently bound to phosphinite ligands on the Ir2 core. Rate constants for excited-state ET range from 3.5 × 106 to 1.1 × 1011 per second, and thermal back ET (pyridinium radical to Ir2+) rates vary from 2.0 × 1010 to 6.7 × 107 per second. The variation of these rates with driving force is in remarkably good agreement with the Marcus theory prediction of a Gaussian free-energy dependence.