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Photo-induced intermolecular charge transfer in porphyrin complexes

Chemical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Biological Physics

Abstract

Optical excitation of the sequential supermolecule H_2P-ZnP-Q induces an electron transfer from the free-base porphyrin (H_2P) to the quinone (Q) via the zinc porphyrin (ZnP). This process is modeled by equations of motion for the reduced density matrix which are solved numerically and approximately analytically. These two solutions agree very well in a great region of parameter space. It is shown that for the majority of solvents the electron transfer occurs with the superexchange mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0001014,
  title  = {Photo-induced intermolecular charge transfer in porphyrin complexes},
  author = {Michael Schreiber and Dmitry Kilin and Ulrich Kleinekathoefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0001014},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

The deep analysis of this problem has been presented in Ph. D. thesis http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0001004