title: On the coherent description of diffusion-influenced fluorescence quenching experiments II: early events.
abstract: In a previous article we showed how to perform and analyze steady-state and nanosecond time-resolved experiments on fluorescence quenching by electron transfer in a coherent manner. Now, by making use of a superior time resolution, we explore the first stages of this kind of reaction. The novel information gained enables us to merge the results on the viscosity and the driving-force dependencies of the reaction rate. A unique set of parameters for a single reaction channel suffices to describe all the results in the frame of differential encounter theory for diffusion-influenced, bimolecular, remote electron-transfer reactions. The inclusion of the solvent structure is crucial for the understanding of the reaction kinetics. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first time that such a comprehensive set of data has been successfully and jointly explained in the field, with physically sound parameters for electron-transfer reactions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland. gangulo@ichf.edu.pl
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Angulo
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Kattnig
authors.forename: Arnulf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosspeintner
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grampp
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vauthey