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Electron-Transfer Reactions

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Electron-transfer reactions are reactions of the oxidative-reductive type. They are of great importance in nature, but also in technology, and have been in the center of interest during the last 50 years, which is evident from several thousands of publications in the field. Many biological processes, e.g., photosynthesis and oxygen transfer in living cells, involve reactions that are governed by electron transfer over distances as large as 1 nm.

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