Electron Transfer In Chemistry

Vincenzo Balzani (Ed.) Electron Transfer in Chemistry Vincenzo Balzani (Ed.) Electron Transfer in Chemistry Weinheim * New York - Chichester Brisbane * Singapore - Toronto Prof. Vincenzo Balzani Dipartimento de Chimica ,,G. Ciamician" Universita di Bologna via Selmi 2 40126 Bologna Italy This book was carefully produced. Nevertheless, editors, authors and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Library of Congress Card No.: applied for A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP Cataloguing-in-Publication-Data A catalogue record for this publication is available from Die Deutsche Bibliothek ISBN 3-527-29912-2 0WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69469 Weinheim (Federal Republic of Germany). 2001 Printed on acid-free paper. All rights reserved (including those of translation in other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means - nor transmitted or translated into machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by law. Composition: Asco Typesetters, Hongkong. Printing: betz-druck gmbh, 64291 Darmstadt. Bookbinding: Wilhelm Osswald & Co., D-67433 Neustadt. Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany. ~ Foreword During the past half-century, the field of electron transfer reactions has undergone a remarkable expansion. This development began in the middle to late 1940s, with studies of what proved to be the simplest class of reactions in all of Chemistryisotopic exchange elec