Charge transfer double

High-translational-energy single-charged positive ions interact with argon atoms via double charge transfer in a single collision [X+(Ar,... 

For reactant ions of higher recombination energy, double charge transfer was observed of the type... 

This appears to be the dominant charge-transfer process in Ar++ - - N2 collisions (Neusciifer et ai, 1979) and in many reactions of Ne+ (Smith and Adams, 1980). In collisions of this ion with Kr and Xe, both single-charge transfer [reaction (33)] and double-charge transfer [reaction (36)] were observed, and the... 

Perturbation theory offers some advantages in this respect. It is also subject to basis superposition error, but the contributions in which such errors may occur can be identified, and it is possible to make an estimate of the error and to correct for it to some extent. The charge-transfer energy is subject to basis superposition error, but it is possible to estimate the contribution of this error to the result. The extension correlation and double charge transfer terms are wholly due to basis superposition effects, to lowest order in overlap at least[l8], and can be discarded. The charge-transfer correlation and dispersion terms, on the other hand, can have no basis superposition error at all because they can only arise when occupied orbitals of both molecules are present[193. 

Figure Bl.28.8. Equivalent circuit for a tliree-electrode electrochemical cell. WE, CE and RE represent the working, counter and reference electrodes is the solution resistance, the uncompensated resistance, R the charge-transfer resistance, R the resistance of the reference electrode, the double-layer capacitance and the parasitic loss to tire ground.

The ultimate approach to simulate non-adiabatic effects is tln-ough the use of a fiill Scln-ddinger wavefunction for both the nuclei and the electrons, using the adiabatic-diabatic transfomiation methods discussed above. The whole machinery of approaches to solving the Scln-ddinger wavefiinction for adiabatic problems can be used, except that the size of the wavefiinction is now essentially doubled (for problems involving two-electronic states, to account for both states). The first application of these methods for molecular dynamical problems was for the charge-transfer system... 

F r d ic Current. The double layer is a leaky capacitor because Faradaic current flows around it. This leaky nature can be represented by a voltage-dependent resistance placed in parallel and called the charge-transfer resistance. Basically, the electrochemical reaction at the electrode surface consists of four thermodynamically defined states, two each on either side of a transition state. These are (11) (/) oxidized species beyond the diffuse double layer and n electrons in the electrode and (2) oxidized species within the outer Helmholtz plane and n electrons in the electrode, on one side of the transition state and (J) reduced species within the outer Helmholtz plane and (4) reduced species beyond the diffuse double layer, on the other. 

In electrode kinetics a relationship is sought between the current density and the composition of the electrolyte, surface overpotential, and the electrode material. This microscopic description of the double layer indicates how stmcture and chemistry affect the rate of charge-transfer reactions. Generally in electrode kinetics the double layer is regarded as part of the interface, and a macroscopic relationship is sought. For the general reaction... 

For the alkali metal doped Cgo compounds, charge transfer of one electron per M atom to the Cgo molecule occurs, resulting in M+ ions at the tetrahedral and/or octahedral symmetry interstices of the cubic Cgo host structure. For the composition MaCgg, the resulting metallic crystal has basically the fee structure (see Fig. 2). Within this structure the alkali metal ions can sit on either tetragonal symmetry (1/4,1/4,1/4) sites, which are twice as numerous as the octahedral (l/2,0,0) sites (referenced to a simple cubic coordinate system). The electron-poor alkali metal ions tend to lie adjacent to a C=C double... 

Scheme 10.5 Tentative mechanism for cytochrome P450-cata-lyzed epoxidation of a double bond. The reactive iron-oxo species VII (see Scheme 10.4) reacts with the olefin to give a charge transfer (CT) complex. This complex then resolves into the epoxide either through a radical or through a cationic intermediate.

FIGURE 7.2. Two alternative mechanisms for the catalytic reaction of serine proteases. Route a corresponds to the electrostatic catalysis mechanism while route b corresponds to the double proton transfer (or the charge relay mechanism), gs ts and ti denote ground state, transition state and tetrahedral intermediate, respectively. 

Double proton transfer mechanism, see Serine proteases, charge-relay mechanism... 

If only the three-phase-boundaries (tpb) were electrocatalytically active one would expect Cd values of the order of 10 pF/cm2. The thus measured high Cd values also provide evidence that the charge transfer zone is extended over the entire gas-exposed electrode surface, i.e. that an effective double layer is formed over the entire gas exposed electrode surface. 

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