Figure 1.
Donor–bridge–acceptor structural fluctuations cause coupling values, HDA, to vary. When exchange among molecular conformations is much faster than the ET rate, ⟨HDA2⟩ enters the nonadiabatic rate expression in place of a single coupling value. The probability density for couplings, P(HDA), is determined by structures accessed.27,43,70 In the regime of slow exchange among conformations (kexch ≪ kET), nonexponential or gated kinetics may be measured.