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Marcus theory, electron nuclear dynamics

The Marcus theory, as described above, is a transition state theory (TST, see Section 14.3) by which the rate of an electron transfer process (in both the adiabatic and nonadiabatic limits) is assumed to be determined by the probability to reach a subset of solvent configurations defined by a certain value of the reaction coordinate. The rate expressions (16.50) for adiabatic, and (16.59) or (16.51) for nonadiabatic electron transfer were obtained by making the TST assumptions that (1) the probability to reach transition state configuration(s) is thermal, and (2) once the reaction coordinate reaches its transition state value, the electron transfer reaction proceeds to completion. Both assumptions rely on the supposition that the overall reaction is slow relative to the thermal relaxation of the nuclear environment. We have seen in Sections 14.4.2 and 14.4.4 that the breakdown of this picture leads to dynamic solvent effects, that in the Markovian limit can be characterized by a friction coefficient y The rate is proportional to y in the low friction, y 0, limit where assumption (1) breaks down, and varies like y when y oo and assumption (2) does. What stands in common to these situations is that in these opposing limits the solvent affects dynamically the reaction rate. Solvent effects in TST appear only through its effect on the free energy surface of the reactant subspace. [Pg.577]


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