1. Intramolecular electronic energy transfer in rhodamine–azulene bichromophoric molecule
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Kuznetz, Olga, Davis, Daly, Salman, Husein, Eichen, Yoav, and Speiser, Shammai
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ENERGY transfer , *FORCE & energy , *CAPACITORS , *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) - Abstract
Abstract: Electron transfer and electronic energy transfer (EET) processes are ways by which different molecules can interact, signalling their state, by EET from a donor (D) to an acceptor (A). This D–A transfer is often observed in an intermolecular process but it can also occur intramolecularly, that is between two bridged parts of a bichromophoric molecule. In this paper we present results pertaining to electronic energy transfer in a newly synthesized rhodamine–azulene (Rh–Az) a bichromophoric molecule, in which a full adder can be implemented. The intramolecular EET rate constant in the Rh–Az molecule was found to be 7.81×109 s−1. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2007
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