Electron-transfer (ET) reactions are key steps in a diverse array of biological transformations
ranging from photosynthesis to aerobic respiration. A powerful theoretical formalism has …

… With energy swiftly rising to the top of the world's agenda, Harry B. Gray at the California
Institute of Technology looks at how chemistry can help to harness the power of the Sun to …

Recent investigations have shed much light on the nuclear and electronic factors that control
the rates of long-range electron tunneling through molecules in aqueous and organic …

From the preface: The subject of the mechanistic study of ligand substitution reactions is
currently undergoing an exciting growth. New fast-reaction techniques have removed the upper …

Energy flow in biological structures often requires submillisecond charge transport over long
molecular distances. Kinetics modeling suggests that charge-transfer rates can be greatly …

The bonding in the molecule ion (20) 6*+ is described in terms of molecular orbitals. In
particular, the most significant feature of the electronic structure of VO*+ seems to be the …

Electrons have so little mass that in less than a second they can tunnel through potential
energy barriers that are several electron-volts high and several nanometers wide. Electron …

… from Caltech in 1984, where he worked with Harry Gray. After carrying out postdoctoral
work with Norman Sutin and Thomas Netzel at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he was …

Water oxidation is a key chemical transformation for the conversion of solar energy into
chemical fuels. Our review focuses on recent work on robust earth-abundant heterogeneous …

Natural photosynthesis uses sunlight to drive the conversion of energy-poor molecules (H 2
O, CO 2 ) to energy-rich ones (O 2 , (CH 2 O) n ). Scientists are working hard to develop …