Non-Marcus energy gap dependence of electron transfer rate in contact ion pairs. Novel interplay between relaxation and reaction in solution

Gayathri, N. ; Bagchi, B. (1996) Non-Marcus energy gap dependence of electron transfer rate in contact ion pairs. Novel interplay between relaxation and reaction in solution Journal of Molecular Structure: Theochem, 361 (1-3). pp. 117-122. ISSN 0166-1280

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Abstract

Electron transfer reactions between donor-acceptor pairs in solution and in organized media exhibit diverse behaviour. Recent experiments have indicated an interesting breakdown of the Marcus parabolic energy gap dependence in the normal regime for back electron transfer from contact ion pairs. A novel explanation of this breakdown has recently been proposed (M. Tachiya and S. Murata, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116 (1994) 2434) which attributes the breakdown to the interplay between the relaxation in the reactant well and the reaction. A particularly interesting aspect of the model is that it envisages the electron transfer in the normal regime to take place from a completely non-equilibrium condition. In this article a time dependent solution of the model is presented for the first time, after generalizing it to include a realistic initial population distribution. The decay of the contact ion pair population is completely non-exponential. This can be used to check the validity of the Tachiya-Murata model. The dynamics of electron transfer from the solvent separated ion pair, which seem to obey the Marcus relation, is exponential.

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