Stilbenes
Applications in Chemistry, Life Sciences and Materials Science
Published on 21. October 2009
Book
Hardback
XII, 348 pages
978-3-527-32388-3 (ISBN)
Description
Filling the gap on the market for comprehensive coverage of this versatile class of compounds, the scope of this monograph ranges from preparation and modern methods of investigation, via chemical and photochemical reactions, photochronism and nonlinear effects, to stilbenes as bases for optical and measuring instruments, applications in industry, biochemistry and biomedicine, and as fluorescence-photochrome biophysical labels.
Invaluable for molecular biologists, materials scientists and cell biologists, as well as catalytic, organic, medicinal and complex chemists, and those working with/on organometallics.
Reviews / Votes
"To recapitulate, it's a brilliant book, which anyone who cares about research or study of stilbenes needs to read. That's most of us -- scientists working on chemistry, physics, and biology of stilbenes and related areas such as optical materials and devices production, molecular biophysics, plant biochemistry, biomedicine, and pharmacology". (Current Engineering Practice, 1 November 2010)"This book covers several aspects of stilbenes - their chemical reactions, photochemistry and applications in industry and biomedicine." (Chemistry World, May 2010)
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
169
167 s/w Abbildungen, 2 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Thickness: 2.3 cm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-527-32388-3 (9783527323883)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gertz I. Likhtenshtein received his PhD and his doctor of science from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, where he was appointed tot he position of Head of Laboratory of Chemical Physics of Enzyme Catalysis in 1965, becoming a professor in 1976.
In 1992 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel, as a full professor in charge of the Laboratory of Chemical Biophysics and has been an emeritus since 2003. He has authored nine scientific books and around 380 papers, and his many awards include the Medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievement, the Diploma of Discovery, the USSR State Prize, the V.V. Voevodsky International Price for Chemical Physics and the Diploma of the Israel Chemical Society. Professor Likhtenshtein is a member of the International ESR Society, the American Biophysical Society, the Israel Chemical Society and the Israel ESR Society.
His main scientific interests focus on mechanisms of light energy conversion and novel methods of immunoassay, nitroxides and antioxidants analysis.
Content
Preface
STILBENES PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS
General
Classical Methods and Their Development
Miscellaneous Chemical Methods of Stilbene Synthesis
Physically Promoted Reactions
Synthesis of Stilbene Dendrimers
Stilbene Cyclodextrin Derivatives
Stilbenes on Templates
Stilbenes Analysis
STILBENE CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Halogenation of Stilbenes
Oxidation of Stilbenes
Stilbene Reduction
Other Reactions
Stilbenes in Polymerization
Complexation
STILBENE PHOTOPHYSICS
General
Stilbene Excited States
Absorption Spectra
Fluorescence from Excited Singlet States
Interactions Involving Triplet State and Phosphorescence
Fluorescence of Excimers and Ecxiplexes
Energy Transfer
Intramolecular Charge Transfer
STILBENE PHOTOISOMERIZATION
General
Mechanisms of Photoisomerization
Effect of Substituents and Polarity
Viscosity Effect
Miscellaneous Experimental Data on Photoisomerization
MISCELLANEOUS STILBENE PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
Photocyclization
Bimolecular Reactions
Photoreactions in Stilbene Dendrimers
Reactions in Polymers and Other Matrices
Reaction Using Two-Photon Excitation
Charge Transfer Ionization
STILBENE MATERIALS
Stilbene Lasers
Electro-Optic Materials
Electrophotographic Material
Light-Emitting Diodes
Materials for Nonlinear Optics
Light-Emitting Materials
Materials for Image-Forming Apparatuses
Radioluminescence Materials: Scintillators
Miscellaneous
BIOACTIVE STILBENES
Resveratrol
Combretastatin and Its Analogues
Pterostilbene
PRECLINIC EFFECTS OF STILBENES
Resveratrol
Compretastatin
Pterostilbene
STILBENES IN CLINICS
General
trans-Resveratrol
Combretastatin
Other Stilbenoids
STILBENES AS MOLECULAR PROBES
General
Theoretical Grounds
Experimental Methods and Their Applications
MODERN METHODS OF STILBENE INVESTIGATIONS
General
Nanosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
Femtosecond Broadband Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
Fluorescence Picosecond Time-Resolved Single Photon Counting
The Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depletion Spectroscopy
High-Speed Asynchronous Optical Sampling
Multiphoton Excitation
Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
CONCLUSIONS