Charge-transfer interactions of excited molecules with inorganic anions: the role of spin-orbit coupling in controlling net electron transfer

Abstract

Radical yields in simple anion-organic triplet charge-transfer interactions are interpreted in terms of spin-orbit coupling in an incipient product radical, as evidenced by increasing yield with increasing [X −] in cases where X − 2 radicals with zero orbital momentum are formed. Nitrite may also quench by energy transfer.