Biological systems are elegantly tuned to drive chemical reactions, often by controlling movements of the smallest chemical reactants: the electron and the proton. In carefully designed systems, electron and/or proton transfer can be photo-triggered, allowing the reaction process to be spectroscopically probed on rapid (sub-millisecond) and ultrafast (sub-picosecond) timescales. Time-resolved electronic absorption and vibrational studies of electron and proton transfer in biological and small molecule systems will be discussed.

Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of electron and proton transfer in biologically relevant systems

249th National Meeting (2015)

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