Photoinduces electron transfer process

Aminopyridines can be perfluoroalkylated in a photoinduced electron transfer process. A charge transfer complex between the heterocycle and polyfluoroalkyl iodide, observable by NMR, is photolytically stimulated... 

With the aim of mimicking, on a basic level, the photoinduced electron-transfer process from WOC to P680+ in the reaction center of PSII, ruthenium polypyridyl complexes were used (182-187) as photosensitizers as shown in Fig. 19. These compounds are particularly suitable since their photophysical and photochemical properties are well known. For example, the reduction potential [Rum(bpy)3]3+/-[Run(bpy)3]2+ (bpy = 2,2 -bipyridine) of 1.26 V vs NHE is sufficiently positive to affect the oxidation of phenols (tyrosine). As traps for the photochemically mobilized electron, viologens or [Co(NH3)5C1]2+ were used. 

Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes on Dendrimer Surface... 

Photoinduced electron transfer processes between Ru(L)32+ and several quenchers (Scheme 6) have been investigated in the presence of anionic PAMAM dendrimers [16,18, 19, 23]. 

The amide functionality plays an important role in the physical and chemical properties of proteins and peptides, especially in their ability to be involved in the photoinduced electron transfer process. Polyamides and proteins are known to take part in the biological electron transport mechanism for oxidation-reduction and photosynthesis processes. Therefore studies of the photochemistry of proteins or peptides are very important. Irradiation (at 254 nm) of the simplest dipeptide, glycylglycine, in aqueous solution affords carbon dioxide, ammonia and acetamide in relatively high yields and quantum yield (0.44)202 (equation 147). The reaction mechanism is thought to involve an electron transfer process. The isolation of intermediates such as IV-hydroxymethylacetamide and 7V-glycylglycyl-methyl acetamide confirmed the electron-transfer initiated free radical processes203 (equation 148). 

Time-resolved fluorescence studies were also carried out on a series of zinc(II) complexes of meso-tetraphenylporphyrins covalently linked to 1,3-dinitrobenzene and 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene as acceptors to study the photoinduced electron transfer process, which is the initial process for the photosynthesis10. 

A few other interesting molecular architectures exhibiting uncharacteristic electrochemical behavior have been constructed on the basis of the methanofullerene building block. These include two methanofullerene-substituted bipyridine ligands complexed to rhenium and ruthenium ((35) and (36) in Fig. 17), which were prepared as possible candidates for photoinduced electron transfer processes [138]. In addition, three fullerene crown ether conjugates ((38), (39), and (40) in Fig. 18) have... 

Many spectroscopic methods have been employed for the investigation of such systems For example, wide-band, time-resolved, pulsed photoacoustic spectroscopy was employed to study the electron transfer reaction between a triplet magnesium porphyrin and various quinones in polar and nonpolar solvents. Likewise, ultrafast time-resolved anisotropy experiments with [5-(l,4-benzoquinonyl)-10,15,20-triphenylpor-phyrinato]magnesium 16 showed that the photoinduced electron transfer process involving the locally-excited MgP Q state is solvent-independent, while the thermal charge recombination reaction is solvent-dependent . Recently, several examples of quinone-phtha-locyanine systems have also been reported . 

Photoinduced electron transfer processes involving electron donor (D) and acceptor (A) components can be tuned via redox reactions. Namely, the excited-state properties of fluorophores can be manipulated by either oxidation of electron donors or reduction of electron acceptors. Also, the oxidized and the reduced species show different properties compared to the respective electron donors and acceptors. By making use of these properties of electron donors and acceptors, a number of molecular switches and logic gates have been described in recent years. In the following, we will introduce these redox-controlled molecular switches according to the redox centers. 

TTF-based D-A systems have been extensively used in recent years to play around photoinduced electron transfer processes. Typically, when an electron acceptor moiety that emits fluorescence intrinsically is linked to TTF (D), the fluorescence due to the A moiety may be quenched because of a photoinduced electron transfer process (Scheme 15.1). Accordingly, these molecular systems are potentially interesting for photovoltaic studies. For instance, efficient photoinduced electron transfer and charge separation were reported for TTF-fullerene dyads.6,7 An important added value provided by TTF relies on the redox behavior of this unit that can be reversibly oxidized according to two successive redox steps. Therefore, such TTF-A assemblies allow an efficient entry to redox fluorescence switches, for which the fluorescent state of the fluorophore A can be reversibly switched on upon oxidation of the TTF unit. 

The TTF-porphyrin dyad 3 was described by the group of Odense.11 The fluorescence of 3 is significantly quenched by the photoinduced electron transfer process. Notably, the fluorescence intensity of dyad 3 increases largely after addition of Fe3 + that oxidizes TTF into TTF" +. Successive reduction of TTF" + is not reported. Nevertheless, it is anticipated that the fluorescence of dyad 3 can be reversibly modulated by redox reactions. In fact, the fluorescence of the supramolecule 4, formed between Zn-tetraphenylporphyrin and a pyridine-substituted TTF (TTF- ), can be reversibly tuned by sequential oxidation and reduction of the TTF moiety in 4.12 It should be noted in this context that the synthetically challenging system associating a porphyrin ring fused to four TTFs (5) was also reported.13... 

Reactions of this type are also observed in photoinduced electron transfer processes and these are discussed in section 4.2. 

As shown above, the acid catalysis on electron transfer increases the overall efficiency of the photochemical reactions via photoinduced electron transfer without affecting the products. However, there are some cases when addition of an acid to a particular photoinduced electron transfer process results in... 

As demonstrated in this review, photoinduced electron transfer reactions are accelerated by appropriate third components acting as catalysts when the products of electron transfer form complexes with the catalysts. Such catalysis on electron transfer processes is particularly important to control the redox reactions in which the photoinduced electron transfer processes are involved as the rate-determining steps followed by facile follow-up steps involving cleavage and formation of chemical bonds. Once the thermodynamic properties of the complexation of adds and metal ions are obtained, we can predict the kinetic formulation on the catalytic activity. We have recently found that various metal ions, in particular rare-earth metal ions, act as very effident catalysts in electron transfer reactions of carbonyl compounds [216]. When one thinks about only two-electron reduction of a substrate (A), the reduction and protonation give 9 spedes at different oxidation and protonation states, as shown in Scheme 29. Each species can... 

Fig. 4.1 Photoinduced electron transfer processes in a semiconductor/solution system. C.B. conduction band, V.B. valence band.

Organic photochemical reactions in monolayer organi-zates are strongly influenced by the restricted molecular mobility in these systems. Reactions at the air-water interface where molecular relaxation is possible, can be followed by measuring the enhanced light reflection in the spectral range of the absorption band of the involved species. In monolayer systems, photoinduced electron transfer processes have been studied by fluorescence techniques. 

Monolayer systems are characterized by a very limited molecular mobility and high degree of order. Photoinduced electron transfer processes have been investigated in these systems in order to evaluate the influence of energy delocalization on the quantum efficiency of the electron transfer step and the range of long distance electron transfer. 

Significant progress in the development of such artificial photosynthetic systems, particularly aimed at the photolysis of water, has been reported in recent years. Several approaches to resolve the problems involved in controlling the photoinduced electron transfer process as well as the development of catalysts for multi-electron fixation processes will be discussed in this paper. 

K-cation and tt-anion formation by photoinduced electron transfer processes ... 

Radical ion species (D+, A ) are usually produced by one-electron transfer from D to A or D to A in polar solvents. The calculated values for the free-energy change using the Rehm-Weller equation (Eq. 1) predict a photoinduced electron-transfer process between D and A [38]... 

Co(CN)6]3 or [Fe(CN)6]3. 89 The double biimidazole-NCRu hydrogen bond is evident in both the solid state and in CDC13 solution, where binding constants of over 103 - 105 were measured. Interaction with hexacyanoferrate(III) brings about a photoinduced electron transfer process which entirely quenches the Ru(II) luminescence. 

Figure 11.10 Energy level diagrams for photoinduced electron transfer processed based on 11.8, showing excitation (--), luminescence (---) and nonradiative decay (—).

Pioneering works by Harriman and Sauvage reported the zinc(II)-gold(III) bis(porphyrin)-type complexes with diimine linkers, where the photoinduced electron transfer process from the zinc(II) porphyrin excited state to the... 

Temperature dependences of the rate for direct photoinduced electron transfer process and reverse charge recombination reaction were studied in some works. As a rule both processes were found to be temperature dependent. However for [p(MP), a(Fe(III)P hemoglobin hybrid (M = Zn(II), Mg(II)) the rate constants of both processes were found to be temperature independent in the temperature interval 273-293 K [285],... 

The intramolecular mechanism, illustrated on the left-hand side of Figure 6.8, is based on four separate operations [52]. (a) Destabilization of the stable translational isomer light excitation of the photoactive unit P (step 1) is followed by the transfer of an electron from the excited state to the Al station, which is encircled by the macrocycle (step 2) with the consequent deactivation of this station such a photoinduced electron-transfer process has to compete with the intrinsic decay of P (step 3). (b) Ring displacement the ring moves from the reduced station Ah to A2 (step 4), a step that has to compete with the back electron-transfer process from Ah (still encircled by the macrocycle) to the oxidized photoactive unit P+ (step 5). This is the most difficult requirement to meet in the intramolecular mechanism, (c) Electronic reset a back electron-transfer process from the free reduced station Ah to P+ (step 6) restores the electron-acceptor power to the Al station, (d) Nuclear reset as a consequence of the electronic reset, back movement of the ring from A2 to Al takes place (step 7). 

In summary, solvent interactions play a very important role that control photoinduced electron-transfer processes. It is mainly the high impact on the stabilization energies of the generated high-energy species that are decisive. We have to distinguish between two different effects—the static solvent influence and the dynamic solvent influence. 

Characterization of photoinduced electron-transfer processes and mechanisms of DBA systems involving (Chap. 9)... 

Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes in Synthetically Modified DNA... 

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