Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

GD Scholes, GR Fleming, LX Chen, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with
fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways …

Coherent two-dimensional and broadband electronic spectroscopies

S Biswas, JW Kim, X Zhang, GD Scholes - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, coherent broadband spectroscopy has been widely used to
improve our understanding of ultrafast processes (eg, photoinduced electron transfer, proton …

Breaking the Kasha rule for more efficient photochemistry

AP Demchenko, VI Tomin, PT Chou - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This paper provides a systematic review and analysis of different phenomena that violate a
basic principle, Kasha's rule, when applied to photochemical reactions. In contrast to the …

Ultrafast elementary photochemical processes of organic molecules in liquid solution

T Kumpulainen, B Lang, A Rosspeintner… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast photochemical reactions in liquids occur on similar or shorter time scales compared
to the equilibration of the optically populated excited state. This equilibration involves the …

Photovoltaic concepts inspired by coherence effects in photosynthetic systems

JL Brédas, EH Sargent, GD Scholes - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has seen rapid advances in our understanding of how coherent and
vibronic phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems aid in the efficient transport of …

Contemporary issues in electron transfer research

PF Barbara, TJ Meyer, MA Ratner - The Journal of Physical …, 1996 - ACS Publications
This is an overview of some of the important, challenging, and problematic issues in
contemporary electron transfer research. After a qualitative discussion of electron transfer, its …

Direct observation of coherent femtosecond solvent reorganization coupled to intramolecular electron transfer

E Biasin, ZW Fox, A Andersen, K Ledbetter, KS Kjær… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
It is well known that the solvent plays a critical role in ultrafast electron-transfer reactions.
However, solvent reorganization occurs on multiple length scales, and selectively …

Electron transfer from isolated molecules to biomolecules

M Bixon, J Jortner - Advances in Chemical Physics (Wiley, New …, 1999 - books.google.com
The genesis of the exploration of electron transfer (ET) in the condensed phase dates back
to the origins of chemistry in the nineteenth century. In 1808 Humphry Davy observed [1] that …

Interplay of vibrational wavepackets during an ultrafast electron transfer reaction

SR Rather, B Fu, B Kudisch, GD Scholes - Nature chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Electron transfer reactions facilitate energy transduction and photoredox processes in
biology and chemistry. Recent findings show that molecular vibrations can enable the …

Nucleic acids as a playground for the computational study of the photophysics and photochemistry of multichromophore assemblies

L Martínez Fernández, F Santoro… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The interaction between light and multichromophoric assemblies (MCAs) is the
primary event of many fundamental processes, from photosynthesis to organic photovoltaics …