Abstract
We consider the dependence of the rate of activated and tunnel transfer of an electron between a donor and an acceptor separated by a chain of finite length on the energy and relaxation characteristics of the donor, the chain and the acceptor. It is found that the chain length is important for numbers of units not exceeding 5–7.
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 133–139, March–April, 1991. Original article submitted February 19, 1988.
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Ostapenko, M.G., Petrov, E.G. Effect of the length of a polymer chain on the rate of donor-acceptor electron transfer. Theor Exp Chem 27, 124–129 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01372460
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