Photochemistry

Angelo Albini is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Italy. After postdoctoral work at the Max-Plank Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Muelheim, Germany (1973-74), he joined the Faculty at Pavia in 1975. He accepted a chair of organic chemistry at the University of Torino in 1990 and then moved again to Pavia in 1993. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of Western Ontario (Canada, 1977-78) and Odense (Denmark, 1983). Alberto Albini is active in the field of organic photochemistry, organic synthesis via radicals and ions, photoinitiated reactions, mild synthetic procedures in the frame of the increasing interest for substainable/green chemistry, and applied photochemistry (photostability of dyes, drugs, photoinduced degradation of pollutants). He has been the recipient of the Federchimica Prize for creativity in chemistry in 1990.

Early Times of Photochemistry.- The Framework of Photochemistry: The Laws.- The Framework of Photochemistry: State Diagram.- Some Paradigmatic Topics.- The Role of Photochemistry in Chemistry.- Photochemistry, a Powerful Science.- Of Excited States, Again.- Photochemical and Photocatalyzed Synthesis.- Medicinal and Diagnostic Applications.- Solar Energy Conversion.- Actuators.- Photochemistry and Green Chemistry.

"Supported by ample references, the book is readable, well illustrated, engaging, and important. It could be used as an attractive text for a photochemistry course ... . It is also accessible to well-motivated general readers with some background in chemistry. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; informed general audiences." (A. Viste, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)