Pressure Tuning Spectroscopic Study of Electron-Tunnelling Processes in Solution

Nita A. Lewis; Yaw S. Obeng; Daniel V. Taveras; Rudi Van Eldik

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Pressure Tuning Spectroscopic Study of Electron-Tunnelling Processes in Solution

Nita A. Lewis, Yaw S. Obeng, Daniel V. Taveras, Rudi Van Eldik

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The first study of the effect of pressure on the intervalence transfer (IT) band of a very weakly coupled mixed valence binuclear, (μ-2,6-dithiaspiro[3.3]heptane)decaamminediruthenium(II,III) hexafluorophosphate in D₂O is reported. A red shift of more than 200 cm^-1 and a small increase in the oscillator strength of the IT band were observed over a pressure range of 1500 bars. These effects were interpreted as arising primarily from H-bonding between the ammine groups on the ruthenium atoms and the solvent D₂O molecules. A nonadiabatic, multiphonon electron-tunnelling theory was employed to calculate rates of thermal electron transfer at each pressure, and ΔV^‡ was estimated to be -7.5 ± 0.2 cm³/mol for the thermal electron exchange.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	924-927
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	111
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00185a021
State	Published - Feb 1989

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