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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 127, Issue 40, Pages 8509-8524Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03420
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In this study, the concept of contribution factor of the first kind (CFFK) was applied to the original Marcus electron-transfer (ET) rate theory. Simple formulas were derived to estimate the relative contributions of ten physical and chemical parameters in the Marcus ET rate formula. The application of this theory to different reaction systems revealed its usefulness in quantitatively identifying major and minor factors affecting the rate.
In this study, we applied the concept of the contribution factor of the first kind (CFFK) to the original electron-transfer (ET) rate theory proposed by Marcus. Mathematical derivations provided simple and convenient formulas for estimating the relative contributions of ten physical and chemical parameters involved in the Marcus ET rate formula: (1) the maximum strength of the electronic coupling energy between two molecules, (2) the exponential decay rate of the electronic coupling energy versus the distance between both molecules, (3) the distance between both molecules, (4) the equilibrium distance between both molecules, (5) the Gibbs free energy, (6) reorganization free energy in the prefactor of the Marcus ET rate equation, (7) reorganization free energy in the denominator of the exponential term, (8) reorganization free energy in the argument of the exponential term, (9) Boltzmann constant times absolute temperature in the prefactor of the rate equation, and (10) Boltzmann constant times absolute temperature in the denominator of the exponential term. We applied our theories to (i) ET reactions at bacterial photosynthesis reaction centers, PSI and PSII, and soluble ferredoxins (Fd); (ii) intraprotein ET reactions for designed azurin mutants; and (iii) ET reactions in flavodoxin (Fld). The formulas and calculations suggest that the theory behind the CFFK is useful for quantitatively identifying major and minor physical and chemical factors and corresponding trade-offs, all of which affect the magnitude of the Marcus ET rate.
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