Resonance Raman Intensities and Charge-Transfer Reorganization Energies.
Resonance Raman Intensities and Charge-Transfer Reorganization Energies.
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DOI:
10.1021/cr950249c
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发表时间:
1996-05
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62.1
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A. Myers
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作者:
A. Myers
When a molecular system undergoes a chargetransfer reaction, the equilibrium positions of the nuclei of both the reacting molecule (s) and the molecules in the environment generally change. Thus, if the reaction occurs at the equilibrium geometry of the reactant (s), the nuclei have to move in order to reach the equilibrium geometry of the product (s). The difference in energy between these two structures is referred to as the “reorganization energy”, which can be decomposed into its contributions from the reacting molecule (s)(“internal” reorganization) and from the environment (“solvent” reorganization). The internal reorganization energy can be further partitioned into its contributions from individual vibrations, usually referred to as “modespecific” reorganization energies. Theoretical descriptions of electron transfer in the weak coupling (nonadiabatic) limit generally express the reaction rate as a product of an electronic matrix element, which depends on the distance and relative orientation of donor and acceptor, and a nuclear part, which depends on the frequencies and reorganization energies of the modes coupled to the transition. 1-4 These reorganization energies have traditionally been considered very difficult to obtain either experimentally or theoretically. However, in cases where there is also a radiative transition connecting the reactants and products, analysis of the intensities of the vibrational Raman lines obtained on resonance with the charge-transfer transition can, in principle, reveal the complete set of mode-specific reorganization energies. This article explains how and why such analyses are performed, reviews existing examples in the literature, and suggests likely futureAnne B. Myers was born May 9, 1958, in New Haven, CT, but moved with her family to Riverside, CA, in 1961. She earned her BS in chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, in 1980 and her Ph. D. in biophysical chemistry from Berkeley in 1984, working with Rich Mathies. After a two-year NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Robin Hochstrasser at the University of Pennsylvania, she joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Rochester in 1987. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and to Professor in 1995. In 1995 she also became Director of the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, an NSF-funded Science and Technology Center involving the University of Rochester, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox. Her research interests lie in time− and frequency− domain spectroscopic probes of fast photochemical reactions, the theory and practice of resonance Raman spectroscopy, electron transfer, and single molecule spectroscopy. She has received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Dreyfus Teacher− Scholar award, and is the author of more than 70 publications. She also enjoys distance running and qualified for the US Olympic Trials in the marathon in 1992.