Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Aarhus University, Denmark
- Outlines the fundamentals of the photophysics of molecular oxygen in solution
- Analyses optical transitions between the lowest-lying states in molecular oxygen
- Explores the application of directly excited singlet oxygen in photodynamic therapy
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents the fundamentals and the state of the art of the photophysics of molecular oxygen. The author examines optical transitions between the lowest-lying electronic states in molecular oxygen and how these transitions respond to perturbation, either from an organic molecule or from the plasmon field of a metal nanoparticle.
We live on a planet filled with light and oxygen. The interaction between these two components forms the basis of excited state chemistry spanning the fields of synthetic organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, and photodynamic treatment of cancer. Still, the fundamental ways in which oxygen is affected by light is an active subject of research and is continually being developed and rationalized.
In this book, readers will learn that singlet oxygen, the excited state of oxygen that exhibits unique chemical reactivity, can be selectively made via direct optical excitation of oxygen in a sensitizer-free system. Readers will also discover that this approach can perturb living cells differently depending on the singlet oxygen “dose”.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Electronic Transitions of Molecular Oxygen
Authors: Mikkel Bregnhøj
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03183-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03182-4Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03183-1Published: 15 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 151
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra, Nanochemistry, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics