Electron transfer single molecule

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Electron transfer between molecules is the most essential process in biological systems [1,2]. Electron transfer in biological substances such as enzymes is very rapid, so that it is in many cases investigated by utilizing electron transfer in a photoexcited state with a laser flash technique. By this method one single step of an electron transfer can be measured. For this purpose a specific position of an enzyme is modified with a redox-center molecule such as a metal complex, and electron transfer is studied with laser flash photolysis. 

Kp2 makes it difficult to calculate the number of electrons transferred per molecule of MgATP hydrolysed. This ratio, as calculated from steady state kinetic data, is between 12 and 14 moles of MgATP hydrolysed per mole of N2 reduced. If the electron transfer from Kp2 to Kpl is the only step where MgATP is hydrolysed, then a catalytic cycle involving single electron transfers from Kp2 to Kpl, each coupled to the hydrolysis of 2 mole equivalents of MgATP, would be consistent with these data. 

Yoshimi, Y, Hayashi, S., Nishikawa, K., Haga, Y, Maeda, K., Morita, T., Itou, T., Okada, Y, Ichinose, N. and Hatanaka, M. 2010. Influence of solvent, electron acceptors and arenes on photochemical decarboxylation of free carboxylic acids via single electron transfer (SET). Molecules. 15(4) 2623-2630. 

Many of the most interesting current developments in electronic spectroscopy are addressed in special chapters of their own in this encyclopedia. The reader is referred especially to sections B2.1 on ultrafast spectroscopy. Cl.5 on single molecule spectroscopy, C3.2 on electron transfer, and C3.3 on energy transfer. Additional topics on electronic spectroscopy will also be found in many other chapters. 

Chemical reactions can be studied at the single-molecule level by measuring the fluorescence lifetime of an excited state that can undergo reaction in competition with fluorescence. Reactions involving electron transfer (section C3.2) are among the most accessible via such teclmiques, and are particularly attractive candidates for study as a means of testing relationships between charge-transfer optical spectra and electron-transfer rates. If the physical parameters that detennine the reaction probability, such as overlap between the donor and acceptor orbitals. 

Figure C1.5.12.(A) Fluorescence decay of a single molecule of cresyl violet on an indium tin oxide (ITO) surface measured by time-correlated single photon counting. The solid line is tire fitted decay, a single exponential of 480 5 ps convolved witli tire instmment response function of 160 ps fwiim. The decay, which is considerably faster tlian tire natural fluorescence lifetime of cresyl violet, is due to electron transfer from tire excited cresyl violet (D ) to tire conduction band or energetically accessible surface electronic states of ITO. (B) Distribution of lifetimes for 40 different single molecules showing a broad distribution of electron transfer rates. Reprinted witli pennission from Lu andXie [1381. Copyright 1997 American Chemical Society.

Sauer M, Drexhage K H, Lieberwirth U, Muller R, Nerd S and Zander C 1998 Dynamics of the electron transfer reaction between an oxazine dye and DNA oligonucleotides motored on the single-molecule level Chem. Phys. Lett. 284 153-63... 

Among the dynamical properties the ones most frequently studied are the lateral diffusion coefficient for water motion parallel to the interface, re-orientational motion near the interface, and the residence time of water molecules near the interface. Occasionally the single particle dynamics is further analyzed on the basis of the spectral densities of motion. Benjamin studied the dynamics of ion transfer across liquid/liquid interfaces and calculated the parameters of a kinetic model for these processes [10]. Reaction rate constants for electron transfer reactions were also derived for electron transfer reactions [11-19]. More recently, systematic studies were performed concerning water and ion transport through cylindrical pores [20-24] and water mobility in disordered polymers [25,26]. 

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