Jose Luis Pérez Lustres will participate as invited speaker in the Sympoisum "Photinduced Proton Transfer in Chemistry and Biology". He will report on the mechanism of proton transfer to solvent reactions.
The symposium is organized by the American Chemical Society as part of the 248th National Meeting and it will take place in San Francisco (USA) from the 10th to the 14th of August. The Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS selects each year a series of relevant topics, which are discussed multidisplinarly by scientists from all over the world.
This time, the Proton Transfer Symposium debates about reaction mechanisms and environmental effects. Our understanding of this process has rapidly evolved in light of new examples of proton transfer reactions in complex biological media and, mainly, by the attainment of increasingly high spectro-temporal resolution. In parallel, promising applications such as pH-jump by optical excitation of molecular probes or optical activity depending on photoinduced prototropism have emerged.
The contribution of the Biophysical Chemistry, Photophysics and Spectroscopy Group (CIQUS) will focus on the identification of the proton-transfer-to-solvent elementary steps: solvent relaxation, bond break and diffusional sepration of reaction products. Several examples illustrate limit cases.
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