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.
Kursusindhold:
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.
Bemærkninger:
Kurset er åbent for deltagelse af andre end ph.d.-studerende mod et gebyr. Henvendelse til kursets kontaktperson eller til Undervisningssekretariatet, bygn. 206, rum 208, tlf. 45252001 Deadline 15. januar.
