Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules

NICHOLAS J. TURRO has been the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, USA, since 1964. He is the author of Modern Molecular Photochemistry, the standard text in the field, and has published over 750 research papers in established scientific journals. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. V. RAMAMURTHY is Bernaud Bauss Professor of Organic Chemistry at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. JUAN SCAIANO is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Introduction and Overview.- Electronic, nuclear and spin state of electronically excited states.- Transitions between states.- Radiative transitions between states.- Radiationless transitions between states.- Theoretical organic photochemistry.- Energy and electron transfer processes.- Mechanistic organic photochemistry.- Photochemistry of carbonyl compounds.- Photochemistry of olefins.- Photochemistry of enones and dienones.- Photochemistry of aromatic molecules.- Supramolecular organic photochemistry.- Molecular oxygen and organic photochemistry.