Hydrogen electron transfer bridge

Figure C3.2.7. A series of electron transfer model compounds with the donor and acceptor moieties linked by (from top to bottom) (a) a hydrogen bond bridge (b) all sigma-bond bridge (c) partially unsaturated bridge. Studies with these compounds showed that hydrogen bonds can provide efficient donor-acceptor interactions. From Piotrowiak P 1999 Photoinduced electron transfer in molecular systems recent developments Chem. Soc. Rev. 28 143-50.

MPA-bridged SOD-electrode complex could be formed via a variety of interactions between MPA and the SODs, such as electrostatic, hydrophobic, and/or hydrogen bonding interactions, which is believed to be responsible for the observed direct electron transfer properties of the SODs. Besides, such interactions substantially enable the SODs to be stably confined at the MPA-modilied Au electrode, which can be further evident from the re-observation of the redox responses of SODs in a pure electrolyte solution containing no SOD with the MPA-modified electrode previously used in SOD solutions. 

Figure 2.5 Molecular structures of zinc-iron porphyrin complexes across (a) hydrogen, (b) aliphatic and (c) aromatic bridges, and the corresponding rates of photoinduced electron transfer for each species, as reported by Rege et al. [12]...

The most active catalysts were obtained by preexchange with Cu2 + followed by postexchange with Pd2 +. This would seem to indicate the importance of cation siting in promoting electron transfer which was assumed to occur via adsorbed water molecules which bridge Pd° and Cu2 + through a hydrogen bond. 

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