"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 17-22, 1989."

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Basic electron-transfer theory -- Nuclear and electronic factors in electron transfer -- Theoretical analysis of energy-gap laws of electron-transfer reactions -- Electron transfer -- Photoinduced charge separation and charge recombination of transient ion-pair states -- Solvent, temperature, and bridge dependence of photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer -- Solvent-dependent photophysics of fixed-distance chlorophyll-porphyrin molecules -- Manipulation of electron-transfer reaction rates with applied electric fields -- Function of quinones and quinonoids in green-plant photosystem I reaction center -- Effects of reaction free energy in biological electron transfer in vitro and in vivo -- Long-range electron transfer in heme proteins

Long-range electron transfer within mixed-metal hemoglobin hybrids -- Electron transfer, energy transfer, and excited-state annihilation in binuclear compounds of ruthenium (II) -- Electron transfer across model polypeptide and protein bridging ligands -- Solvent reorganization energetics and dynamics in charge-transfer processes of transition metal complexes -- Puzzles of electron transfer