Marcus Cross-Relationship Probed by Time-Resolved CIDNP.

The time-resolved CIDNP method can provide information about degenerate exchange reactions (DEEs) involving short-lived radicals. In the temperature range from 8 to 65 °C, the DEE reactions of the guanosine-5'-monophosphate anion GMP(-H) - with the neutral radical GMP(-H) • , of the N-acetyl tyrosine anion N-AcTyrO - with a neutral radical N-AcTyrO • , and of the tyrosine anion TyrO - with a neutral radical TyrO • were studied. In all the studied cases, the radicals were formed in the reaction of quenching triplet 2,2'-dipyridyl. The reorganization energies were obtained from Arrhenius plots. The rate constant of the reductive electron transfer reaction in the pair GMP(-H) • /TyrO - was determined at T = 25 °C. Rate constants of the GMP(-H) • radical reduction reactions with TyrO - and N-AcTyrO - anions calculated by the Marcus cross-relation differ from the experimental ones by two orders of magnitude. The rate constants of several other electron transfer reactions involving GMP(-H) - /GMP(-H) • , N-AcTyrO - /N-AcTyrO • , and TyrO - /TyrO • pairs calculated by cross-relation agree well with the experimental values. The rate of nuclear paramagnetic relaxation was found for the 3,5 and β-protons of TyrO • and N-AcTyrO • , the 8-proton of GMP(-H) • , and the 3,4-protons of DPH • at each temperature. In all cases, the dependences of the rate of nuclear paramagnetic relaxation on temperature are described by the Arrhenius dependence.