Principles and Applications of Photochemistry
2nd Edition
Published on 1. October 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-19-855233-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book attempts to provide an understanding of the relationships between reactivity and electronic and molecular structure. Photochemistry is concerned with the chemistry of excited species, and the subject is developed in the central chapters of this book to show the several paths by which an excited species may react or undergo radiactive or radiationless decay. One chapter explains some of the more important experimental techniques that are peculiar to photochemistry and also presents a very brief introduction to the study of the detailed dynamics of photochemical processes, including the utilization of energy in specific quantum states of the starting species and its disposal in the products. The book concludes with a survey of photochemical processes found in nature and of some commercial and laboratory applications.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
59 figures, 14 tables, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-855233-8 (9780198552338)
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Content
Basic principles of photochemistry; absorption and emission of radiation, including the Beer-Lambert law, spectroscopic nomenclature; photodissociation; emission processes (1), including luminescence, kinetics and quantum efficiencies of emmission processes, fluorescence, phosphorescence, chemiluminescence; energy transfer - emission processes (2); reactions of excited species, including intramolecular processes - isomerization and rearrangement; techniques in photochemistry, including incandescent filament lamps, discharge lamps, lasers, synchrotron radiation; photochemistry in action, including atmospheric photochemistry, photosynthesis, vision, photoimaging, photography, photochromism, photopolymerization, photodegration and photostabilization, solar energy storage, photoelectrochemical energy storage, optical brighteners, photomedicine. (Part contents)