Tunneling – a new way of electron transfer

A team of scientists led by Prof. Daniel Gryko from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the PAS in cooperation with scientists from California (teams of Prof. Harry Gray and Prof. Valentine Vullev) showed a new way of transferring electrons within the molecule: through tunneling – without the traditional “steps”. The discovery was possible after the synthesis of a molecule that has a network of internal hydrogen bonds. Participants in the research were: Rafał Orłowski, Prof. Agnieszka Szumna and Dr. Olga Staszewska-Krajewska.

The results were published in a prestigious PNAS.

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