Microcavity population

The microcavity population is assumed to be constant below Tg and an increasing function of temperature above Tg. The parameter... 

The third rate constant that characterizes the dynamics of proton reaction with 0 is the rate of proton escape out of the microcavity. This rate is most easily estimated from (yi) the rate constant of the slow phase of (fluorescent decay. During the second phase of decay, the reactants OH, < >0-, and H+ in the cavity are in apparent equilibrium (as averaged over the number of sites). Under such conditions, and the provisions that binding does not change the lifetime of the excited ligands, we can assume only two mechanisms that consume the N population (1) the irreversible decay of the excited state and (2) the irreversible loss of the proton to the bulk. The rate constant of proton escape is in the range of a few nanoseconds (Table II), and this has some direct implication in bioenergetics. 

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