Photoinduced Charge and Energy Transfer Processes in Molecular Aggregates. Final Report

摘要

In the early years of the project we examined the electron transfer properties of donor/acceptor polypyridyl complexes substituted at the 1 and 2 positions of ethane. The electron transfer behavior was typical of weakly coupled (non-adiabatic) donor/acceptor systems with its nuclear transmission coefficient well described by Marcus theory. This line of research then turned to the examination of the electron transfer properties of systems in which the electron transfer coupling matrix element is very large (adiabatic electron transfer). This aspect of the work largely involved the spectroscopic implications of electronic-coupling in electron transfer systems.