Donor molecules ionization potential

Building a successful D-a-A molecule requires knowledge of the appropriate HOMO and UUMO energies and the work function energies of the electrodes. A donor s ionization potential IPD corresponds to its HOMO energy, and an... 

Photoelectron transfer is usually described by the so-called Foerster s cycle Upon transformation of a molecule into the excited state, the donor s ionization potential is reduced by the value of the donor s excitation energy, and the acceptor s electron affinity increases by the value of the acceptor s excitation energy. 

Figure 4.14 Energy for the maximum absorbance for charge transfer complexes of s-trinitrobenzene, tetracyanoethylene, and chloranil with various donors plotted against the adiabatic ionization potential of the donor. Recent ionization potentials from the NIST tables were used. The vertical displacement results from the differences in the Ea of the molecules. The calculated curves were obtained by using a two-parameter nonlinear least squares. The values of the constants are given in Table 4.5, where they are compared with published values. Data from [8, 30, 32].

Charge-Transfer Compounds. Similat to iodine and chlorine, bromine can form charge-transfer complexes with organic molecules that can serve as Lewis bases. The frequency of the iatense uv charge-transfer adsorption band is dependent on the ionization potential of the donor solvent molecule. Electronic charge can be transferred from a TT-electron system as ia the case of aromatic compounds or from lone-pairs of electrons as ia ethers and amines. 

As for Erep, Ect is derived from an early simplified perturbation theory due to Murrel [46], Its formulation [47,48] also takes into account the Lrj lone pairs of the electron donor molecule (denoted molecule A). Indeed, they are the most exposed in this case of interaction (see Section 6.2.3) and have, with the n orbital, the lowest ionization potentials. The acceptor molecule is represented by bond involving an hydrogen (denoted BH) mimicking the set, denoted < > bh, of virtual bond orbitals involved in the interaction. 

Fig. 10 Aviram-Ratner rectification via HOMO and LUMO. (a) A D-o-A molecule is sandwiched between two metal electrodes. MD is the electrode proximal to the donor, MA is the electrode proximal to the acceptor, is the electrode metal work function, IPD is the ionization potential of the donor, EAa is the electron affinity of the acceptor, (b) No pathway for current exists when a voltage is applied in the reverse bias direction, (c) Under a comparable voltage to (b) but in the forward bias direction, rectification results from electrons flowing from MA to LUMO to HOMO to MD...

It is now well established that when a surface presents electron donor or electron acceptor sites, it is possible to ionize molecules of relatively high electron affinity (> 2 eV) or low ionization potential values, resulting in paramagnetic radical ions. For instance anthracene and perylene are easily positively ionized on alumina (7 ) (IP = 7.2 and 6.8 eV respectively). The adsorption at room temperature of benzenic solution of perylene, anthracene and napthalene on H-ZSM-5 and H-ZSM-11 samples heated up to 800°C prior to adsorption did not give rise to the formation of the corresponding radical cation. For samples outgassed at high... 

The interaction of nondegenerate molecular or charge-transfer states is insufficient to describe the stability of photoassociation products of molecules with different electronic energy levels, ionization potentials, and electron affinities. On the other hand, treatments26-26 of the exciplex as a pure charge-transfer state afford a quantitative description of the shift in fluorescence peak with solvent polarity and with electron affinity of the (fluorescent) donor in the same quencher-solvent system (Eq. 13) moreover, estimated values for the dipole moment of the emitting species (Table VI) confirm its pronounced charge-transfer character. 

When the quencher contains heavy atoms nonradialive relaxation of the exciple occurs via the triplet state (heavy atom perturbation). A second mode of exciplex dissociation is through electron transfer between the excited molecule and the quencher. Ionization potential of the donor, electron affinity of the acceptor and solvent dielectric constant are important parameters in such cases. 

The simplest method for calculating the ionization potentials and the electron affinities is the 7T-HMO method. Such an evaluation is particularly suitable for the determination of the relative electron donor-acceptor properties of the molecules. The appropriate indices are the energies of the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) for the electron donor capacity and the energies of the lowest empty molecular orbitals (LEMO) for the electron acceptor abilities. These simple theoretical predictions gave an excellent interpretation1,256 of the... 

The ability of molecules to form donor-acceptor complexes depends not only on their ionization potential, electron affinity and polarizability, but also on the requirements and properties of partners. 

Anderson and his coworker carried out a series quantum chemistry studies of oxygen reduction reactions.52-57 Anderson and Abu first studied reversible potential and activation energies for uncatalyzed oxygen reduction to water and the reverse oxidation reaction using the MP2/6-31G method. The electrode was modeled by a non-interacting electron donor molecule with a chosen ionization potential (IP). The primary assumption is that when the reactant reaches a point on the reaction path where its electron affinity (EA) matched the donor IP, an electron transfer is initialized. The donor s IP or reactant s EA was related to the electrode potential by,... 

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