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 bo 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
Preface
Contributors
A Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Within DNA Duplexes
Thomas L. Netzel
Coordination Complexes and Nucleic Acids. Perspectives on Electron Transfer, Binding Mode, and Cooperativity
Eimer Tuite
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Metal-Organic Dyads
Kirk S. Schanze and Keith A. Walters
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers
David Creed
Photochemical Solid-to-Solid Reactions
Amy E. Keating and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Chemical and Photophysical Processes of Transients Derived from Multiphoton Excitation: Upper Excited States and Excited Radicals
W. Grant McGimpsey
Environmental Photochemistry with Semiconductor Nanoparticles
Prashant V. Kamat and K. Vmodgopal
Index
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 bo 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
Preface
Contributors
A Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Within DNA Duplexes
Thomas L. Netzel
Coordination Complexes and Nucleic Acids. Perspectives on Electron Transfer, Binding Mode, and Cooperativity
Eimer Tuite
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Metal-Organic Dyads
Kirk S. Schanze and Keith A. Walters
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers
David Creed
Photochemical Solid-to-Solid Reactions
Amy E. Keating and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Chemical and Photophysical Processes of Transients Derived from Multiphoton Excitation: Upper Excited States and Excited Radicals
W. Grant McGimpsey
Environmental Photochemistry with Semiconductor Nanoparticles
Prashant V. Kamat and K. Vmodgopal
Index