A term often used to indicate thermal reversal of
excited stateelectron transfer restoring the donor and acceptor in their original
oxidation level. In using this term one should also specify the resulting
electronic state of the donor and acceptor.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2223
(Glossary of terms used in photochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996))
on page 2229
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A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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