Abstract: For electron transfer (ET) reactions in liquid media, it is not uncommon to find that the stereoselectivity, mutual orientations, conformational fluctuations, spin multiplicity restrictions of the reacting system may kinetically limit its reactivity. We assume that the system in question can stochastically interconvert between reactive (open gate) and nonreactive (closed gate) states at rates competitive with diffusion-influenced ET, and refer to this kind of reaction as stochastically gated diffusion-influenced ET reactions. We utilize the Zho...
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Chemical physics
Thermodynamics
Molecular physics