Proton Assisted Electron Transfer
Mariangela Di Donato; Raffaele Borrelli; Amedeo Capobianco; Guglielmo Monaco; Roberto Improta; Meziane Brahimi†; Andrea Peluso, *‡ Cattedra di Chimica Teorica Università Federico II, via Mezzocannone 4 I-80134 Napoli, Italy.† Permanent Address: Université des Sciences et de la technologie Houari Boumedienne BP 9, Dar-el-Beida, El-Alia, Algiers, Algeria.‡ Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, I-84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy.
Abstract
Likely mechanisms for long range electron transfer coupled to proton transfer are investigated. It is shown that, in model systems closely resembling realistic biochemical sequences, the injection of an electron on one end of the H-bonded chain can activate a sequential ...