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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II

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  1. Vincenzo Balzani
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Lanthanides

    • Joseph P. Leonard, Claire B. Nolan, Floriana Stomeo, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson
    Pages 1-43

  3. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Rhenium

    • Robert A. Kirgan, B. Patrick Sullivan, D. Paul Rillema
    Pages 45-100

  4. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Osmium

    • Duraisamy Kumaresan, Kalpana Shankar, Srivathsa Vaidya, Russell H. Schmehl
    Pages 101-142

  5. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Iridium

    • Lucia Flamigni, Andrea Barbieri, Cristiana Sabatini, Barbara Ventura, Francesco Barigelletti
    Pages 143-203

  6. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Platinum

    • J. A. Gareth Williams
    Pages 205-268

  7. Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Gold

    • Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng
    Pages 269-309

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 311-327
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About this book

Photochemistry (a term that broadly speaking includes photophysics) is abranchofmodernsciencethatdealswiththeinteractionoflightwithmatter and lies at the crossroadsof chemistry, physics, and biology. However, before being a branch of modern science, photochemistry was (and still is today), an extremely important natural phenomenon. When God said: “Let there be light”, photochemistry began to operate, helping God to create the world as wenowknowit.Itislikelythatphotochemistrywasthesparkfortheoriginof life on Earth and played a fundamental role in the evolution of life. Through the photosynthetic process that takes place in green plants, photochemistry is responsible for the maintenance of all living organisms. In the geological past photochemistry caused the accumulation of the deposits of coal, oil, and naturalgasthat wenowuseasfuels.Photochemistryisinvolved inthecontrol ofozoneinthestratosphereandinagreatnumber ofenvironmentalprocesses thatoccurintheatmosphere,inthesea,andonthesoil.Photochemistryisthe essenceoftheprocessofvisionandcausesavarietyofbehavioralresponsesin living organisms. Photochemistry as a science is quite young; we only need to go back less than one century to ?nd its early pioneer [1]. The concept of coordination compound is also relatively young; it was established in 1892, when Alfred Werner conceived his theory of metal complexes [2]. Since then, the terms coordination compound and metal complex have been used as synonyms, even if in the last 30 years, coordination chemistry has extended its scope to the binding ofall kinds of substrates [3, 4].

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II

  • Editors: Vincenzo Balzani, Sebastiano Campagna

  • Series Title: Topics in Current Chemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73349-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73348-5Published: 11 September 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09239-8Published: 25 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73349-2Published: 07 August 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0340-1022

  • Series E-ISSN: 1436-5049

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 327

  • Topics: Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

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