Excited States and Photochemistry of Organic Molecules

A revised and improved English-language edition of Klessinger and Michl's earlier German-language textbook, which has been edited to appeal to its English-language audience. It introduces and presents the theory underlying organic photochemistry, a topic which has become fashionable within physical organic chemistry. It is aimed at graduate students and individual researchers, both academic and industrial, in photochemistry, spectroscopy and allied disciplines.