Electron transfer reactions

During the tenure of this contract research was performed on a number of aspects of electron transfer reactions (solvent dynamics including vibrational effects, non-Debye solvent dynamics, early steps in bacterial photosynthesis) and of the use of artificial intelligence searching methods, the latter, in part, as a prelude to our current study of electron transfer reactions in structurally complicated systems such as proteins. Seven Technical Reports were issued during this period, and research on several topics was initiated: the study of the relation between charge transfer absorption and fluorescence spectra and the inverted region, a nonadiabatic/adiabatic coherent mechanism for electron transfers, and electron transfers between two immiscible-liquid phases and between a semiconductor and an electrolyte.