Ramamurthy V., Schanze K.S. (ed.) Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry. Volume 2. Organic and Inorganic Photochemistry

Marcel Dekker Inc. 1998. - 355 p.
The science of chemistry has entered an era when techniques of chemical structure analysis are sufficiently sophisticated to render routine the elucidation of amazingly intricate molecular structures. These relatively recent technological advances now allow chemists to carry out detailed investigations of highly complex synthetic and naturally occurring (biological) molecular systems from the molecular perspective. Thus has been born the field of "supramolecular chemistry" – the molecular-level study of complex arrays or assemblies consisting of many basic molecular building blocks held together by weak intermolecular forces. Photochemists have led the charge into this new frontier of chemical science, and therefore it is appropriate that this second volume of the Molecular and Supermolecular Photochemistry series highlights state-of-the-art research of complex naturally occurring and synthetic supramolecular arrays.Contents

A Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Within DNA Duplexes
Thomas L. NetzelCoordination Complexes and Nucleic Acids. Perspectives on Electron Transfer, Binding Mode, and Cooperativity
Eimer TuitePhotoinduced Electron Transfer in Metal-Organic Dyads
Kirk S. Schanze and Keith A. WaltersPhotochemistry and Photophysics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers
David CreedPhotochemical Solid-to-Solid Reactions
Amy E. Keating and Miguel A. Garcia-GaribayChemical and Photophysical Processes of Transients Derived from Multiphoton Excitation: Upper Excited States and Excited Radicals
W. Grant McGimpseyEnvironmental Photochemistry with Semiconductor Nanoparticles
Prashant V. Kamat and K. Vmodgopal