| Scope and form: 14 weekly sessions with one or two lectures followed by organized seminar/discussion. |
Evaluation: Oral presentation and approval of coursework
Course activity and concluding externally assessed course relevant seminar |
| Examination: Pass/fail |
| Prerequisites: Candidate training and interest in physics and chemistry |
Aim: For Ph.D. students and others interested in chemical and biological charge transfer, and with an urge to approach charge transfer concepts and formalism beyond the trivial.
Contents: established and frontier elements of electron and atom group transfer in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. See course description. |
Contents: Established and frontier elements of electron and atom group transfer in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. Topics to be chosen from:
1.The quantum mechanical tunnel effect in physical, chemical, and biological systems.
2.The liquid state of the environmental reaction medium.
3.The simplest chemical process - electron transfer: outer sphere electron transfer in inorganic and organic chemistry; dissociative electron transfer.
4.Towards preciser electron transfer theory: nuclear tunnelling; chemical processes at low temperatures; the diabatic and adiabatic limits.
5.Optical electronic processes and charge transfer spectroscopy.
6.Proton and atom group transfer: general acid and base catalysis, kinetic isotope effects.
7.The electrochemical process: the solid-liquid interface; electron transfer at metal and semiconductor electrodes; electron densities and electron tunnelling.
8.The notion of "long-range" electron transfer; intermediate states and intermediate matter; environmental dynamics and electron tunnelling.
9.Electron transfer in proteins and nucleic acids: molecular recognition; coherent processes; the photosynthetic apparatus; enzyme function and conformational dynamics.
10.Solvation and resolvation dynamics - the stochastic approach.
11.Perspectives and outlook: chemical nanostructures; molecular electronics; scanning probe microscopy, STM and AFM; ultrafast processes; charge transfer and phase transitions. |
| Remarks: Deadline 15. of January |
| Contact: Jens Ulstrup, building 207, (+45) 4525 2359, ju@kemi.dtu.dk |
| Department: 026 Department of Chemistry |
Signup: Hos lfreren/At the teacher, Study Office
DTU, Building 101
DK-2800 Lyngby
Denmark or
Campusnet |
| Updated: 24-04-2001 |
