Electron Transfer

an integrated approach to electron transfer phenomena This two-part stand-alone volume in the prestigious Advances inChemical Physics series provides the most comprehensive overview ofelectron transfer science today. It draws on cutting-edge researchfrom diverse areas of chemistry, physics, and biology-covering themost recent developments in the field, and pointing to importantfuture trends. This initial volume includes: * A historical perspective spanning five decades * A review of concepts, problems, and ideas in currentresearch * Electron transfer in isolated molecules and in clusters * General theory, including useful algorithms * Spectra and electron transfer kinetics in bridged compounds The second volume covers solvent control, ultrafast electrontransfer and coherence effects, molecular electronics, electrontransfer and chemistry, and biomolecules. Electron transfer science has seen tremendous progress in recentyears. Technological innovations, most notably the advent offemtosecond lasers, now permit the real-time investigation ofintramolecular and intermolecular electron transfer processes on atime scale of nuclear motion. New scientific information abounds,illuminating the processes of energy acquisition, storage, anddisposal in large molecules, clusters, condensed phase, andbiophysical systems. Electron Transfer: From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules is thefirst book devoted to the exciting work being done in nonradiativeelectron transfer dynamics today. This two-part edited volumeemphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field, bringingtogether the contributions of pioneers in chemistry, physics, andbiology. Both theoretical and experimental topics are featured. Theauthors describe modern approaches to the exploration of differentsystems, including supersonic beam techniques, femtosecond laserspectroscopy, chemical syntheses, and methods in genetic andchemical engineering. They examine applications in such areas assupersonic jets, solvents, electrodes, semi- conductors,respiratory and enzymatic protein systems, photosynthesis, andmore. They also relate electron transfer and radiationlesstransitions theory to pertinent physical phenomena, and provide aconceptual framework for the different processes. Complete with over two hundred illustrations, Part One reviewsdevelopments in the field since its inception fifty years ago, anddiscusses electron transfer phenomena in both isolated moleculesand in clusters. It outlines the general theory, exploring areas ofthe control of kinetics, structure-function relationships,fluctuations, coherence, and coupling to solvents with complexspectral density in different types of electron transferprocesses. Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, Electron Transfer: FromIsolated Molecules to Biomolecules is an essential resource forphysical chemists, molecular physicists, and researchers working innonradiative dynamics today.