The Electron Transfer Activation Energy and Solvent Reorganisation Term

The Electron Transfer Activation Energy and Solvent Reorganisation Term 

As we mentioned previously, ket increases as the redox potential of the electron donor is more negative and A is tuned towards positive values. From these relationships, we can extract information on the reorganisation energy and electronic coupling between the redox species. 

Within the framework of Marcus theory of electron tfansfer, the activation energy for a non-adiabatic electron transfer process is given by.  

Considering an impenetrable sharp liquid/liquid boundary, the solvent reorganisation energy can be expressed as - ,  

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