Abstract
| - Analysis of optical spectra of a pseudo-para-dinitro[2.2]paracyclophane radical anion usingMarcus−Hush theory reveals that its off diagonal coupling element, Hab, is large enough, relative to itsreorganization energy, to change it from a localized class II compound to a delocalized class III compoundby changing solvents. The optical spectra, along with frontier orbital analysis, show that the assumptionthat Eop = 2Hab for class III compounds is not true in this case.
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