Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aldrichimica Acta. 2019;52(1):7–21.

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1.

A General, Oxidative Quenching Mechanism by Which Strongly Reducing PCs Operate. First, an Electron Is Donated by the Excited State PC (PC*) to an Acceptor (A), Followed by Extraction of an Electron from an Electron Donor (D) to Regenerate the Ground State PC. (Ref. 28,29)