Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Intramolecular electron-induced proton transfer and its correlation with excited-state intramolecular proton transfer

  • Wei Wang,
  • Mary Marshall,
  • Evan Collins,
  • Sara Marquez,
  • Chaonan Mu,
  • Kit H. Bowen,
  • Xinxing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09154-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Intramolecular electron-induced proton transfer (iEIPT) describes proton motion coupled with the attachment of an electron within a molecule. Here, the authors build a “search engine” for iEIPT-capable molecules that also have the excited-state intramolecular proton transfer property.