Ruthenium(II)−polypyridyl complexes of similar size but with variable reduction potential undergo efficient photoinduced electron-transfer reactions with phenolate ions in aqueous medium. All these reactions are exergonic and are in accordance with the Marcus theory of electron transfer. At high negative Δ G ° Marcus inverted region is observed in this bimolecular photoinduced charge separation reaction.
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Thanasekaran et al. (1997) studied this question.