GAUSSIAN FREE-ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF ELECTRON-TRANSFER RATES IN IRIDIUM COMPLEXES

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作者
FOX, LS [1 ]
KOZIK, M [1 ]
WINKLER, JR [1 ]
GRAY, HB [1 ]
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[1] BROOKHAVEN NATL LAB,DEPT CHEM,UPTON,NY 11973
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10.1126/science.247.4946.1069
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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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.
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