Electron transfer between ions and water is of fundamental interest for many processes in biology and chemistry. Now, using core-electron excitation of hydrated iron cations, ultrafast electron transfer to the coordinating water molecules has been detected.
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23 September 2010
In the PDF and print versions of this News & Views originally published, the beam colours were incorrect in Fig. 1. This has now been corrected online.
29 June 2017
In view of the fact that the Article 'Charge transfer to solvent identified using dark channel fluorescence-yield L-edge spectroscopy' by Emad F. Aziz et al. (Nature Chemistry 2, 853–857; 2010) has been retracted by the authors, I retract this News & Views highlighting the study because it relied on the validity of the data presented therein.
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Nilsson, A. Transferring electrons to water. Nature Chem 2, 800–802 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.807
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