Elements of Organic Photochemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Basic Photophysical and Photochemical Concepts

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 1-18

3. Photochemical Techniques and the Photodimerization of Anthracene and Related Compounds

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 19-74

4. Photochemical Techniques and the Photochemistry of Ketones

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 75-133

5. The Photochemistry of Simple Carbonyl Compounds: Type I Cleavage and Oxetane Formation

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 135-204

6. The Triplet State

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 205-266

7. Electronic Energy Transfer

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 267-305

8. Dienone and Enone Photochemistry(1–3)

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 307-335

9. The Di-π-Methane Photorearrangement

   • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

   Pages 337-365

10. Photochemical Cis-Trans and Valence Isomerization of Olefins

    • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

    Pages 367-421

11. Photodimerization and Photocycloaddition Reactions Yielding Cyclobutanes

    • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

    Pages 423-484

12. Photoelimination, Photoaddition, and Photosubstitution

    • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

    Pages 485-548

13. An Introduction to Photobiology

    • Dwaine O. Cowan, Ronald L. Drisko

    Pages 549-576

14. Back Matter

    Pages 577-586

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In the past fifteen years organic photochemistry has undergone a greater change and has stimulated more interest than probably any other area of organic chemistry. What has resulted is a population explosion, that is, an ever-increasing number of organic chemists are publishing important and exciting research papers in this area. Professor Bryce-Smith in the introduc­ tion to a recent volume of the Specialist Periodical Report (Photochemistry, Volume 6), which reviews the photochemical literature in yearly intervals, states that "the flood of photochemical literature is showing some signs of abatement from the high levels of two or three years ago .... " However, Volume 6 of that periodical contains 764 pages of excellent but very concise reviews. We expect the development of the mechanistic aspects of organic photo­ chemistry to continue at the present pace as new methods are developed to probe in increasing detail and shorter time scales the photochemical dynamics of both old and new photoreactions. Since photochemistry is no longer the sole domain of the specialist, it is relatively safe to predict a dramatic increase in the near future of the synthetic and industrial uses of organic photo­ chemistry .

• Aldehyde
• Alkene
• Cycloaddition
• Ketone
• aromatic
• carbon
• cyclic compound
• heterocyclic compound
• organic chemistry
• photochemistry
• population
• rearrangement
• spectroscopy
• stereochemistry
• synthesis

• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

  Dwaine O. Cowan

• Essex Community College, Baltimore, USA

  Ronald L. Drisko

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