title: Tuning the rates of long-range charge transfer across phenylene wires.
abstract: Walking a tight wire: Phototriggered charge transfer across a tetra-p-dimethoxybenzene bridge is three orders of magnitude faster than that across a structurally similar tetra-p-xylene spacer, despite equal reaction driving forces in both cases [picture: see text]. This result is interpreted in terms of markedly different donor-bridge energy gaps.
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Applied Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mathieu E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.forename: Oliver S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Wenger