Note: Front Cover -- Dynamics and Mechanisms of Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Related Phenomena -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Organizing Committee -- Participants List -- Welcome Address -- Yamada Science Foundation and the Scope of Yamada Conference -- Executive Members of Yamada Science Foundation -- Part 1: FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF ELECTRON TRANSFER AND RELATED PROCESSES I -- Chapter 1. Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Dynamics of Transient Ion Pair States -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHOTOINDUCED CS IN LINKED SYSTEMS -- 3. PHOTOINDUCED CS IN UN-LINKED D, A SYSTEMS -- 4. CR DECAY OF GEMINATE IP'S PRODUCED BY PHOTOINDUCED CS -- 5. SPECIAL CASE OF PHOTOINDUCED CS BY VERY WEAK INTERACTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2. Ultrafast Studies on Electron Transfer -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A SOLVENT COORDINATE FOR ADMA -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- 4. AN ADIABATIC LE/CT MODEL -- 5. DYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS AND THE PHOTODYNAMICS -- 6. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 3. Solvent Dynamics and Charge Transfer Reactions -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOLVATION DYNAMICS -- 3. ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS -- 4. NONADIABATIC PROTON TRANSFER -- 5. SN1 IONIC DISSOCIATION -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 4. Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Twisted π-Systems -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOLVATOKINETICS AND VARIATION OF INITIAL CONDITIONS IN DIALKYLAMINOBENZONITRILES -- 3. SOLVATOKINETICS AND THE INFLUENCE OF HYPERSURFACE TOPOLOGY -- 4. INTERNAL AND SOLVATION COORDINATE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PICTURE -- 5. MULTIDIMENSIONAL TICT FORMATION: PARALLEL PATHWAYS -- 6. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 5. On the Energy Gap Law in Electron Transfer Reaction -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. R-DEPENDENCE OF A -- 3. ENERGY GAP LAWS IN THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM. , 4. ENERGY GAP LAW OF THE ET REACTION IN NON-THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM -- 5. SOLVENT DYNAMICAL EFFECTS IN THE NON-LINEAR RESPONSE SYSTEMS -- 6. DISCUSSIONS -- 7. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 6. Solvent Effects on the Rate vs Free Energy Dependence of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Fixed-Distance Donor-Acceptor Molecules -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. DISCUSSION -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- 7. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 7. Primary Charge Separation in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers and Femtosecond Solvation Dynamics -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. PRIMARY ELECTRON TRANSFER IN BACTERIAL REACTION CENTERS -- 4. SOLVATION DYNAMICS ON FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 8. Picosecond Solvation Dynamics of Electrons in Several Alcohols -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and Discussion -- Chapter 9. Monte Carlo Simulation Study on Solvation Energy of Ionic Molecule, Reorganization Energy of Electron Transfer Reactions and Mean Ion-pair Potential -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOLVATION ENERGY -- 3. REORGANIZATION ENERGY -- 4. MEAN ION-PAIR POTENTIAL -- 5. CONCLUSION -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10. TICT Molecules in a Free Jet -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Potential Energy Curve for the Twisting Motion -- 3. Typical TICT Molecules -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11. Femtosecond-Picosecond Laser Photolysis Studies on Proton Transfer Dynamics in Solutions -- ABSTRACT -- 1. PREFACE -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12. Dynamics of Double Proton Transfer Reaction in the Excited State of Hydrogen Bonded Dimers as Studied in a Supersonic Jet -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental. , 3. Results and Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- 5. Acknowledgement -- 6. References -- Part 2: FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF ELECTRON TRANSFER AND RELATED PROCESSES II -- Chapter 13. Effects of Fast Intramolecular Vibrations on Rates of Nonthermalized Reactions Dependent on Solvation Dynamics through Viscosity -- Abstract -- 1. SLOW FLUCTUATIONS OF MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS IN THE SOLVATED STATE -- 2. FRACTIONAL-POWER DEPENDENCE OF THE RATE CONSTANT ON THE SOLVENT VISCOSITY -- 3. EFFECTS OF FAST VIBRATIONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF INTRAMOLECULAR ATOMIC ARRANGEMENTS IN THE SOLVATED STATE -- 4. SUMI-MARCUS MODEL FOR k(X) -- 5. DISCUSSION -- 6. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 14. Solvation Dynamics in Electron-Transfer and Femtosecond Nonlinear Spectroscopy -- Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Response Functions in Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy and Electron-Transfer -- III. A Multimode Brownian Oscillator Model for Hole-Burning Spectroscopy -- IV. The Multimode Electron-Transfer Rate -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 15. Intramolecular Charge Transfer as Revealed by Results from the Measurement of Ground and Excited State Dipole Moments -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL -- 3. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 16. Inter- and Intramolecular Exciplexes Studied by Single Photon Timing and Laser Induced Optoaccoustic Spectroscopy -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Experimental -- Results and Discussion -- Intramolecular exciplex formation of 1-(1-pyrenyl)-3-(indolyl)propanes -- The decay of intramolecular exciplexes with indole chromophores -- Acknowledgments -- References -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 17. On the Non-exponential Behavior of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Processes in Polar Solvents -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL -- 3. TIME RESOLVED ABSORPTION SPECTRA. , 4. DECAY CURVES OF THE LE FLUORESCENCE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 18. Condensed Phase Studies of Radical Ions in Photoionization and Radiolysis -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RADICAL IONS IN PHOTOIONIZATION -- 3. MECHANISM OF "HIGH-ENERGY" CHEMISTRY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 19. Magnetokinetic Investigations of Spin-forbidden Electron Back Transfer in Exciplexes and Radical Pairs -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Solvent Dependence of Free Radical Yield -- 3. Magnetokinetic Effects on Spinforbidden BET -- 4. Solvent Viscosity Dependence of Magnetic Field Effect -- 5. Solvent Polarity Dependence of Magnetic Field Effect -- Acknowledgement -- References -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 20. Intramolecular Electron Transfers in Bimetalated Compounds of Ru(ll) and Rh(III) -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. CT excited state of binuclear ruthenium compounds [Ru(bpy)2]2(bpbimH2)4+ and [Ru(bpy)2]2(dpimbH2)4+ -- 3. Intramolecular ET in Photoexcited RuL2(L-L)Rhl'2 5+ -- 4. Intramolecular ET in Excited RuL2(L-LH2)4+ -- 5. Role of Vibronic Interaction between Electron Acceptor and Electron Donor in ET -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 21. Excited-State Relaxation of Ruthenium (II) Complexes at Low Temperature -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE EFFECTS ON EMISSION SPECTRA -- 3. SOLVENT INTERACTION IN THE MLCT EXCITED STATE -- 4. EXCITED-STATE RELAXATION OF Ru(II) COMPLEXES -- 5. CONCLUSION -- NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 22. Transient Hole-Burning Spectra of Organic Dyes in Solution -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Configuration Coordinate Model -- 3. Experimental Procedures -- 4. Experimental Results and Discussion -- References. , Chapter 23. Theoretical Studies of Excited State Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Polar Solvents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FREE ENERGY SURFACES FOR TICT STATE FORMATION OF DMABN -- 3. DIELECTRIC RELAXATION DYNAMICS INDUCED BY THE IONIZATION OF DMA -- 4. GENERALIZED LANGEVIN DESCRIPTION OF SURFACE HOPPING PROCESSES -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 6. REFERENCES -- Chapter 24. Microscopic Solvation of 9,9'-Bianthryl Studied in its Clusters with Polar Molecules -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and discussion -- References -- Part 3: ELECTRON AND ENERGY TRANSFER IN MOLECULAR AGGREGATES AND POLYMERS -- Chapter 25. Relaxation in Spatially-Restricted Structures -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MODELS FOR STRETCHED EXPONENTIALS [15] -- 3. EXTENSIONS OF DET TO RESTRICTED GEOMETRIES [25] -- 4. APPLICATIONS [2,10] -- REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 26. Photoinduced Charge Transfer Dynamics in Poly(N-vinylcarbazole) Films -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fluorescence Spectroscopic Study -- 3. Absorption Spectroscopic Study -- 4. Photoinduced Charge Transfer Mechanism -- 5. References -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 27. Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Fundamental Differences between Homogeneous Phase and Organized Monolayers -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER IN HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTION -- 3. LONG-RANGE PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER IN MONOLAYER SYSTEMS -- 4. PARTICULAR PROPERTIES OF MONOLAYER SYSTEMS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 6. REFERENCES -- DISCUSSION -- Chapter 28. Fractals and Excitation Transfer in Molecular Assemblies -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXCITATION RELAXATION PROCESSES IN MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES -- 3. EXCITATION TRANSFER IN 2D SYSTEM -- 4. INTERLAYER EXCITATION TRANSPORT IN LB MULTILAYERS [ 9 ] -- 5. COMPARISON BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL ANTENNA AND ARTIFICIAL MULTILAYER FILMS [ 3 , 9 ]. , 6. REFERENCES.