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Efficiency of energy storage in photochemical electron transfer reactions

Journal Article · · Dokl. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:6277917
This paper analyzes the efficiency of energy storage in products (states) of electron-transfer photoreactions and discusses optimal storage conditions. The reversible electron-transfer photochemical reaction between an excited donor and an acceptor in liquid polar solvents is considered. Energy can be stored in the radical-ion pairs as well as in the radical ions. For a given donor, the maximum storable energy will be obtained by an acceptor whose E/sub 3/ lies below the triplet level E/sub t/ by 2500 +- 1000 cm/sup -1/. For example, for chlorophyll a, the storable energy from its photooxidation will be maximum when E/sub 1/2/ of the acceptor ranges from -0.4 to -0.6 V. (DLC)
Research Organization:
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
OSTI ID:
6277917
Journal Information:
Dokl. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Dokl. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 255:1, 2, 3; ISSN DKPCA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English