Smooth landscape solvent dynamics in electron transfer reactions
Contribuinte(s) |
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
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Data(s) |
27/05/2014
27/05/2014
22/05/1999
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Resumo |
Solvent effects play a major role in controlling electron-transfer reactions. The solvent dynamics happens on a very high-dimensional surface, and this complex landscape is populated by a large number of minima. A critical problem is to understand the conditions under which the solvent dynamics can be represented by a single collective reaction coordinate. When this unidimensional representation is valid, one recovers the successful Marcus theory. In this study the approach used in a previous work [V. B. P. Leite and J. N. Onuchic; J. Phys. Chem. 100, 7680 (1996)] is extended to treat a more realistic solvent model, which includes energy correlation. The dynamics takes place in a smooth and well behaved landscape. The single shell of solvent molecules around a cavity is described by a two-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions with nearest neighbor interaction. It is shown how the polarization-dependent effects can be inferred. The existence of phase transitions depends on a factor y proportional to the contribution from the two parameters of the model. For the present model, γ suggests the existence of weak kinetic phase transitions, which are used in the analysis of solvent effects in charge-transfer reactions. © 1999 American Institute of Physics. |
Formato |
10067-10075 |
Identificador |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.478880 Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 110, n. 20, p. 10067-10075, 1999. 0021-9606 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/65778 10.1063/1.478880 WOS:000080367700032 2-s2.0-0005635678 2-s2.0-0005635678.pdf |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Relação |
Journal of Chemical Physics |
Direitos |
closedAccess |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |