TIME-DEPENDENCE OF DONOR-ACCEPTOR ELECTRON-TRANSFER .2. LIQUID SOLUTION

Electron transfer from optically excited donor molecules, D*, to randomly distributed acceptor molecules, A, followed by the back reaction is treated theoretically for a liquid solution. An expression for the average donor cation probability, P+(t), is derived by the adaptation of a method used previously to describe the transfer of electronic excitation energy in liquid solution. The Coulomb interaction of the cation with the anion is taken into account; it results in an appreciable decrease of P+(t). © 1990.