Jortner / Bixon Electron Transfer

From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules, Part 2, Volume 107
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-14219-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 107, 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 second volume offers the followingsections:
* Solvent control, including ultrafast solvation dynamics andrelated topics
* Ultrafast electron transfer and coherence effects
* Molecular electronics
* Electron transfer and exciplex chemistry
* Biomolecules-from electron transfer tubes to kinetics in a DNAenvironment
Part One addresses the historical perspective, electron transferphenomena in isolated molecules and clusters, general theory, andelectron transfer kinetics in bridged compounds.
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 Two opens withsolvent control issues, including electron transfer reactions andultrafast solvation dynamics. Other topics include ultrafastelectron transfer and coherence effects, molecular electronics, andelectron transfer in exciplex chemistry. This volume concludes witha section on biomolecules-from electron transfer tubes toexperimental electron transfer and transport in DNA.
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

Interplay Between Ultrafast Polar Solvation and VibrationalDynamics in Electron Transfer Reactions: Role of High-FrequencyVibrational Modes (B. Bagchi & N. Gayathri).
Solvent Control of Electron Transfer Reactions (F. Raineri & H.Friedman).
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Ultrafast Solvation Dynamicsby Transient Four-Photon Spectroscopy (B. Fainberg & D.Huppert).
Coherence and Adiabaticity in Ultrafast Electron Transfer (K. Wynne& R. Hochstrasser).
Electron Transfer and Solvent Dynamics in Two- and Three-StateSystems (M. Cho & G. Fleming).
Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer in Solution (K.Yoshihara).
Electron Transfer in Molecules and Molecular Wires: GeometryDependence, Coherent Transfer, and Control (V. Mujica, etal.).
Electron Transfer and Exciplex Chemistry (N. Mataga & H.Miyasaka).
Electron-Transfer Tubes (J. Regan & J. Onuchic).
Copper Proteins as Model Systems for Investigating IntramolecularElectron Transfer Processes (O. Farver & I. Pecht).
Applying Marcus's Theory to Electron Transfer in Vivo (G. McLendon,et al.).
Solvent-Fluctuation Control of Solution Reactions and ItsManifestation in Protein Functions (H. Sumi).
Experimental Electron Transfer Kinetics in a DNA Environment (P.Barbara & E. Olson).
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.