Electron transfer is ubiquitous across both life and modern technologies, and thus being able to control it is an attractive goal. Now, targeted infrared excitation has been used to modulate the efficiency of electron transfer in a series of donor–bridge–acceptor molecules.
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Rubtsov, I. Shake it off. Nature Chem 7, 683–684 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2332
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