Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents of Previous Volumes -- 1: Heterosupramolecular Devices Based on Nanocrystalline Semiconductors -- 2: The Essential Interface: Studies in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells -- 3: Photo-Induced Electron Transfer Reactivity at Nanoscale Semiconductor-Solution Interfaces: Case Studies with Dye-Sensitized SnO2-Water Interfaces -- 4: Current Status of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells -- 5: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Layered Semiconductor Nanoparticles -- 6: Mechanisms of the Photocatalytic Transformation of Organic Compounds -- 7: Titanium Dioxide-Photocatalyzed Reactions of Organophosphorus Compounds in Aqueous Media -- 8: Photocatalytic Oxidation of Gas-Phase Aromatic Contaminants -- 9: Design and Development of New Titanium Dioxide Semiconductor Photocatalysts -- 10: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Mesoscopic Oxide Semiconductor Films -- 11: Applications of Semiconductor Electro-Optical Properties to Chemical Sensing -- Index.

Note: Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Contents of Previous Volumes -- 1 Recent Advances in Di- -methane Photochemistry: A New Look at a Classical Reaction -- 2 The Photo-Fries Rearrangement -- 3 The Characterization and Reactivity of Photochemically Generated Phenylene Bis(diradical) Species as Revealed by Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy… -- 4 Photoinduced-Electron-Transfer Initiated Reactions in Organic Chemistry -- 5 Design and Fine Control of Photoinduced Electron Transfer -- 6 Molecular Oxygenations in Zeolites -- 7 Organic-Inorganic Composites as Photonic Antenna -- 8 Photo-Switching Spiropyrans and Related Compounds -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents of Previous Volumes -- 1 Metal-Organic Conducting Polymers: Photoactive Switching in Molecular Wires -- 2 Luminescence Behavior of Polynuclear Metal Complexes of Copper (I), Silver (I), and Gold (I) -- 3 Electron Transfer Within Synthetic Polypeptides and De Novo Designed Proteins -- 4 Tridentate Bridging Ligands in the Construction of Stereochemically Defined Supramolecular Complexes -- 5 Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of Metallo-1,2-enedithiolates -- 6 Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry of Porphyrins and Metalloporphyrins -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Highly Excited Valence States of Polyatomic Molecules: Nonalternant Aromatics, Thioketones, and Metalloporphyrins -- Chapter 2: Proton Transfer Reactions in the Excited States -- Chapter 3: Photoreactivity of n,п*-Excited Azoalkanes and Ketones -- Chapter 4: Photonucleophilic Substitution Reactions -- Chapter 5: Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of SET-Promoted Photocyclization Reactions of Silicon Substituted Phthalimides -- Chapter 6: Photoamination with Ammonia and Amines -- Chapter 7: DNA-Templated Assembly of Helical Multichromophore Aggregates -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Contents of Previous Volumes -- 1: Photochemistry of Hydroxyaromatic Compounds -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HALOPHENOLS -- A. Simple Halophenols -- B. Diflusinal Photochemistry -- Ill. HYDROXYSTYRENES, ACETYLENES, AND RELATED COMPOUNDS -- A. orlho-Hydroxyaromatic Oximes and !mines -- B. Photoisomerization of 2-Hydroxybenzonitrile -- C. · Alkenyl Phenols and Naphthols -- IV. HYDROXYAROMATIC KETONES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS -- A. Photocyclization of Hydroxychalcones -- B. Photosolvolytic Rearrangement of p-Hydroxyphenacyl Esters -- V. ALLYLPHENOLS AND ALL YLNAPHTHOLS -- A. Photocyclization of Allylphenols and Allylnaphthols -- B. Photocyclization of Cinnamylphenols and Cinnamylnaphthols -- VI. HYDROXYBENZYL ALCOHOLS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS -- A. Chromenes and Hydroxyaromatics with Labile Benzylic Substituents -- B. Hydroxybenzyl Alcohols -- C. Biaryl Systems -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 2: Stereoselectivity of Photocycloadditions and Photocyclizations -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DESCRIPTION OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRENDS -- Ill. PHOTOCYCLOADDITION REACTIONS -- A. Paterno-Buchi Reactions -- B. Enone-Ene Photocycloadditions -- C. Ene-Ene Photocycloadditions -- IV. PHOTOCYCLIZATION REACTIONS -- A. Yang Cyclization -- B. 1,3-, 1,5-, and 1 ,6-Photocyclizations -- V. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 3: Photocycloadditions with Captodative Alkenes -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. [2 + 2] CYCLOADDITIONS TO VARIOUS SYSTEMS -- A. Light-Induced Cyclodimerizations of a-Cyanoenamines -- B. Oxetane Formation -- C. [2 + 2] Photocycloadditions to the Hetero Ring of lndoles and Benzo[b]thiophenes -- D. [2 + 2] Photocycloadditions to Coumarins and Thiocoumarins -- E. [2 + 2] Photocycloadditions to Acenaphthylene. , F. [2 + 2] Photocycloadditions to Naphthalenes and Phenanthrenes -- Ill. [4 + 2] PHOTOCYCLOADDITIONS TO CONDENSED ACYL ARENES SUCCESSFULLY COMPETING WITH [2 + 2] PHOTOCYCLOADDITIONS -- A. General Remarks -- B. Acylnaphthalenes and Naphthoic Acid Esters -- C. Acyl Quinolines -- D. Anthracenes and Benzanthracenes -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4: Photo- and Electroactive Fulleropyrrolidines -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SYNTHESIS -- A. Electro- and Photoactive Fulleropyrrolidines via Azomethine Yllde Cycloaddition -- B. Electroactive Donor-Acceptor Systems -- C. Photoactive Donor-Acceptor Systems -- Ill. PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS -- A. Pristine Fullerene -- B. Fulleropyrrolidines -- C. Fulleropyrrolidinium Salts -- D. Donor-Acceptor Dyads -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 5: Applications of Time-Resolved EPR in Studies of Photochemical Reactions -- I. INTRODUCTION -- A. Instrumental Aspects -- B. Scope of Review -- II. CIDEP MECHANISMS -- A. Triplet Mechanism -- B. Radical Pair Mechanism -- C. Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs -- D. Radical-Triplet Pair Mechanism -- E. Reversed Triplet Mechanism -- F. An Overview of Spin Polarization Contributions -- Ill. APPLICATIONS -- A. Photoionization -- B. Excited-State Electron Transfer -- C. Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 6: Photochemical Generation and Studies of Nitrenium Ions -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES OF NITRENIUM IONS -- Ill. CHEMICAL BEHAVIOR OF NITRENIUM IONS: GENERAL TRENDS -- IV. PHOTOCHEMICAL GENERATION OF NITRENIUM IONS: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- V. PHOTOCHEMICAL ROUTES TO NITRENIUM IONS -- A. Photoisomerization of Anthranilium Ions -- B. Photofragmentation of N-Aminopyridlnium Ions. , C. Photoheterolysis of Hydroxylamine Esters and N-Chloroamines -- D. Nitrenium Ions Through Addition Reactions: Protonation of Nitrenes Generated from Azide Photolysis -- VI. SPECTROSCOPIC AND KINETIC PROPERTIES OF NITRENIUM IONS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 7: Photophysical Properties of Inorganic Nanoparticle-DNA Assemblies -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PREPARATIVE METHODS, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION -- A. DNA -- B. Metal Nanoparticles -- C. Semiconductor Nanoparticles -- Ill. PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF INORGANIC NANOPARTICLES -- A. Metals -- B. Semiconductors -- IV. NONCOVALENT DNA-INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES -- A. Metals -- B. Semiconductors -- V. COVALENT DNA-INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES -- A. Overall Strategies -- B. Covalent Attachment Procedures -- C. Optical Properties of Gold Nanopartlcle-DNA Assemblies -- D. Further Characterization of Nanoparticle-DNA Assemblies -- VI. RELATED BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF INORGANIC NANOPARTICLES: NEW BIODETECTION SCHEMES AND NEW ROUTES TO BIOMATERIALS -- VII. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 8: Luminescence Quenching by Oxygen in Polymer Films -- I. INTRODUCTION -- A. Luminescence Quenching -- B. Oxygen Quenching in Polymers -- II. GAS DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS -- A. Diffusivity and Permeability -- B. Mechanism of Gas Diffusion and Permeability -- Ill. OXYGEN DIFFUSION AND LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING -- A. Quenching and Oxygen Permeability -- B. Quenching and Fickian Diffusion -- IV. EXPERIMENTAL DATA -- A. Response and Recovery -- B. Fluorescence Decay Profiles in the Absence of Quencher -- C. Response to Oxygen Concentration -- D. Pressure-Sensitive Paint -- E. Temperature Effects -- F. Additives, Plasticizers, and Copenetrants -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Contents of Previous Volumes -- Chapter 1: Ortho Photocycloaddition of Alkenes and Alkynes to the Benzene Ring -- Chapter 2: Photocycloaddition and Photoaddition Reactions of Aromatic Compounds -- Chapter 3: Singlet-Oxygen Ene-Sensitized Photo-Oxygenations: Stereochemistry and Mechanisms -- Chapter 4: Singlet-Oxygen Reactions: Solvent and Compartmentalization Effects -- Chapter 5: Microreactor-Controlled Product Selectivity in Organic Photochemical Reactions -- Chapter 6: Enantioselective Photoreactions in the Solid State -- Chapter 7: Observations on the Photochemical Behavior of Coumarins and Related Systems in the Crystalline State -- Chapter 8: Supramolecular Photochemistry of Cyclodextrin Materials -- Chapter 9: Photoactive Layered Materials: Assembly of Ions, Molecules, Metal Complexes, and Proteins -- Chapter 10: Fluorescence of Excited Singlet-State Acids in Certain Organized Media: Applications as Molecular Probes -- Chapter 11: Photophysics and Photochemistry of Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Solid-State Organic Photochemistry of Mixed Molecular Crystals -- 2. Asymmetric Photochemical Reactions in Solution -- 3. Photochemical cis-trans Isomerization in the Triplet State -- 4. Photochemical cis-trans Isomerization from the Singlet Excited State -- 5. Photochemical Cleavage Reactions of Benzyl-Heteroatom Sigma Bonds -- 6. Photophysical Probes for Organized Assemblies -- Index.