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Electron Transfer in a Dynamically Disordered Polar Medium
Author(s) -
Nadler Walter,
Marcus Rudolph A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
israel journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1869-5868
pISSN - 0021-2148
DOI - 10.1002/ijch.199000008
Subject(s) - intramolecular force , chemistry , polar , chemical physics , electron transfer , degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) , electron , statistical physics , condensed matter physics , thermodynamics , physics , quantum mechanics , stereochemistry
Intramolecular electron transfer (ET) processes with the main energetic contributions coming from the solvent reorganization are investigated for a polar medium that exhibits dynamic disorder. Dynamic disorder provides a description of the anomalous relaxational behavior of correlation functions in complex glass‐like systems, alternative to static disorder. In particular, the questions addressed are whether time‐resolved observation of nonexponential ET in such a medium can readily distinguish experimentally between static and dynamic disorder and whether a contribution of intramolecular degrees of freedom to the ET can be identified by it.