Jortner / Bixon Electron Transfer

From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules, Part 1, Volume 106
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-14218-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 106, 760 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Advances in Chemical Physics

an integrated approach to electron transfer phenomena
This two-part stand-alone volume in the prestigious Advances inChemical Physics series provides the most comprehensive overview ofelectron transfer science today. It draws on cutting-edge researchfrom diverse areas of chemistry, physics, and biology-covering themost recent developments in the field, and pointing to importantfuture trends. This initial volume includes:
* A historical perspective spanning five decades
* A review of concepts, problems, and ideas in currentresearch
* Electron transfer in isolated molecules and in clusters
* General theory, including useful algorithms
* Spectra and electron transfer kinetics in bridged compounds
The second volume covers solvent control, ultrafast electrontransfer and coherence effects, molecular electronics, electrontransfer and chemistry, and biomolecules.
Electron transfer science has seen tremendous progress in recentyears. Technological innovations, most notably the advent offemtosecond lasers, now permit the real-time investigation ofintramolecular and intermolecular electron transfer processes on atime scale of nuclear motion. New scientific information abounds,illuminating the processes of energy acquisition, storage, anddisposal in large molecules, clusters, condensed phase, andbiophysical systems.
Electron Transfer: From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules is thefirst book devoted to the exciting work being done in nonradiativeelectron transfer dynamics today. This two-part edited volumeemphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field, bringingtogether the contributions of pioneers in chemistry, physics, andbiology. Both theoretical and experimental topics are featured. Theauthors describe modern approaches to the exploration of differentsystems, including supersonic beam techniques, femtosecond laserspectroscopy, chemical syntheses, and methods in genetic andchemical engineering. They examine applications in such areas assupersonic jets, solvents, electrodes, semi- conductors,respiratory and enzymatic protein systems, photosynthesis, andmore. They also relate electron transfer and radiationlesstransitions theory to pertinent physical phenomena, and provide aconceptual framework for the different processes.
Complete with over two hundred illustrations, Part One reviewsdevelopments in the field since its inception fifty years ago, anddiscusses electron transfer phenomena in both isolated moleculesand in clusters. It outlines the general theory, exploring areas ofthe control of kinetics, structure-function relationships,fluctuations, coherence, and coupling to solvents with complexspectral density in different types of electron transferprocesses.
Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, Electron Transfer: FromIsolated Molecules to Biomolecules is an essential resource forphysical chemists, molecular physicists, and researchers working innonradiative dynamics today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jortner, Joshua

Bixon, M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Prigogine, I.

Rice, Stuart A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Electron Transfer Past and Future (R. Marcus).
Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution: A Historical Perspective(N. Sutin).
Electron Transfer-From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules (M. Bixon& J. Jortner).
Charge Transfer in Bichromophoric Molecules in the Gas Phase (D.Levy).
Long-Range Charge Separation in Solvent-Free Donor-Bridge-AcceptorSystems (B. Wegewijs & J. Verhoeven).
Electron Transfer and Charge Separation in Clusters (C. Dessent, etal.).
Control of Electron Transfer Kinetics: Models for MediumReorganization and Donor-Acceptor Coupling (M. Newton).
Theories of Structure-Function Relationships for Bridge-MediatedElectron Transfer Reactions (S. Skourtis & D. Beratan).
Fluctuations and Coherence in Long-Range and Multicenter ElectronTransfer (G. Iversen, et al.).
Lanczos Algorithm for Electron Transfer Rates in Solvents withComplex Spectral Densities (A. Okada, et al.).
Spectroscopic Determination of Electron Transfer Barriers and RateConstants (K. Omberg, et al.).
Photoinduced Electron Transfer Within Donor-Spacer-AcceptorMolecular Assemblies Studied by Time-Resolved MicrowaveConductivity (J. Warman, et al.).
From Close Contact to Long-Range Intramolecular Electron Transfer(J. Verhoeven).
Photoinduced Electron Transfers Through Bonds in Solution (N.-C.Yang, et al.).
Indexes.

Über Autor(innen)

JOSHUA JORTNER is Heinemann Professor of Chemistry at Tel AvivUniversity's School of Chemistry, where he has been on the facultysince 1964. Professor Jortner is President of the InternationalUnion of Pure and Applied Chemistry, former President of the IsraelNational Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the recipient ofthe Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988).
M. BIXON is Chemistry Professor at Tel Aviv University's School ofChemistry, where he has been on the faculty since 1966. He holds aPhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.