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How can infra-red excitation both accelerate and slow charge transfer in the same molecule?

Published:2018 Issue:30 Volume:9 Page:6395-6405
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Ma Zheng¹²³⁴,Lin Zhiwei¹⁵⁶⁴,Lawrence Candace M.¹⁷⁶⁴^ORCID,Rubtsov Igor V.¹⁵⁶⁴,Antoniou Panayiotis⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Skourtis Spiros S.⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Zhang Peng¹²³⁴,Beratan David N.¹²³⁴⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry

2. Duke University

3. Durham

4. USA

5. Tulane University

6. New Orleans

7. Xavier University of Louisiana

8. Department of Physics

9. University of Cyprus

10. Nicosia 1678

11. Cyprus

Abstract

A UV-IR-Vis 3-pulse study of infra-red induced changes to electron transfer (ET) rates in a donor–bridge–acceptor species finds that charge-separation rates are slowed, while charge-recombination rates are accelerated as a result of IR excitation during the reaction.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Seventh Framework Programme

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/SC/C8SC00092A

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