In this work, mechanistic aspects of electron transfer (ET) reactions of two covalently linked molecular systems have been studied, applying fs to ns time resolved absorption and fluorescence techniques. 1) Ferrocenophane-nileblue The multiexponential charge recombination kinetics on a ps time scale of the covalently linked ferrocenophane-nileblue compound depends on an external magnetic field of up to 7T and on temperature. Based on time resolved optical experiments following conclusions could be drawn: - Spin relaxation in the ferrocenophane-nileblue radical pair occurs with a rate of 1/(14.3 ps) and is almost activationless. This supports the Orbach mechanism for spin relaxation. - Forward ET is ultrafast with a rate of 1/(90 fs) at 295K and - at most - only very weakly activated. Back ET can be described by a single ET process and is also almost activationless with Ea = 24 meV. Based on cyclic voltammery, the driving force for the forward ET process can be estimated to be -1.4 eV. The ultrafast forward ET rate together with an extremely large driving force cannot be explained by conventional ET theory. 2) Rhodamine end-capping DNA DNA strands with end-capped rhodamines have been studied by transient absorption and time resolved fluorescence techniques. From these studies, following conclusions could be drawn: - Results from time resolved optical spectroscopy can be related to NMR structures. Multiple structures are reflected in multi-exponential decay patterns. - Distance dependence of the reorganisation energy cannot be demonstrated as clearly as in ACMA modified DNA systems due to the driving force for charge injection being too small.
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In this work, mechanistic aspects of electron transfer (ET) reactions of two covalently linked molecular systems have been studied, applying fs to ns time resolved absorption and fluorescence techniques. 1) Ferrocenophane-nileblue The multiexponential charge recombination kinetics on a ps time scale of the covalently linked ferrocenophane-nileblue compound depends on an external magnetic field of up to 7T and on temperature. Based on time resolved optical experiments following conclusions could...
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