Supramolecular Photochemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Towards a Supramolecular Photochemistry: Assembly of Molecular Components to Obtain Photochemical Molecular Devices

   • V. Balzani, L. Moggi, F. Scandola

   Pages 1-28

3. Photophysical and Photochemical Aspects of Supramolecular Chemistry

   • Jean-Marie Lehn

   Pages 29-43

4. Some Recent Developments in Electron Transfer: Charge Separation, Long Distances, Solvent Dynamics, and Free Energy Aspects

   • R. A. Marcus

   Pages 45-52

5. Photoinduced Electron Transfer Through Long Rigid Non-Conjugated Bridges: Theory and Experiment for Model Systems

   • N. S. Hush

   Pages 53-72

6. The Distance and Temperature Dependence of Electron-Transfer Rates

   • Norman Sutin

   Pages 73-86

7. Photoinduced Looping Electron Transfer. What Occurs Between Electron Transfer and Charge Separation ?

   • Shigeo Tazuke, Noboru Kitamura, Haeng-Boo Kim

   Pages 87-102

8. Intramolecular Control of Light Induced Electron Transfer

   • Thomas J. Meyer

   Pages 103-120

9. Cyano-Bridged Supramolecular Systems Containing the Ru(bpy) 2 2+ Photosensitizer Unit

   • Franco Scandola, Carlo Alberto Bignozzi

   Pages 121-133

10. Intramolecular Energy and Electron Transfer in Polymetallic Complexes

    • John D. Petersen

    Pages 135-152

11. Photoinduced Charge Separation in Ion-Pair Electron Donor-Acceptor Aggregates

    • Morton Z. Hoffman, Dasari R. Prasad

    Pages 153-165

12. Electronic Inefficiencies in Inter- and Intra-Molecular Energy and Electron Transfer

    • John F. Endicott, Ronald B. Lessard, Yabin Lei, Chong Kul Ryu

    Pages 167-185

13. Antenna Effect in Eu3+ and Tb3+ Cryptates

    • N. Sabbatini, S. Perathoner, V. Balzani, B. Alpha, J.-M. Lehn

    Pages 187-206

14. Energy Transfer in Synthetic Porphyrin Arrays

    • Anthony Harriman

    Pages 207-223

15. Competitive Energy and Electron Transfer Quenching of the Triplet States of Organic Compounds by Cr(tfac)3 and Cr(tfbzac)3 in Benzene

    • F. Wilkinson, S. L. Collins

    Pages 225-240

16. Through-Bond Electronic Couplings in Intramolecular Electron Transfer Reactions

    • J. R. Miller

    Pages 241-254

17. Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Fixed Distance Chlorophyll-Quinone Donor-Acceptor Molecules

    • Michael R. Wasielewski, Douglas G. Johnson, Walter A. Svec

    Pages 255-266

18. Electron Transfer in Model Systems for Photosynthesis

    • Devens Gust, Thomas A. Moore

    Pages 267-282

19. Transmembrane Charge Transfer in Model Systems for Photosynthesis

    • Thomas A. Moore, Devens Gust, Ana L. Moore, René V. Bensasson, Patrick Seta, Elisabeth Bienvenue

    Pages 283-297

20. Inter- and Intramolecular Quenching of Porphyrin Excited States by Quinones

    • John S. Connolly, John K. Hurley, William L. Bell, Kenneth L. Marsh

    Pages 299-318

The intellectual and utilitarian opportunities that lie at the frontiers of chemistry have been recently emphasized by the Pimentel Report. Such report recommends that in the field of chemical research priority should be given to "understanding chemical reactivity" and proposes initiatives aimed at the clarification of factors that control the rates of reaction and the development of new synthetic pathways for chemical change. In the broad field of chemical reactivity, a discipline that has grown with an extraordinary rate is photochemistry. Since the knowledge of the photochemical properties at the molecular level has made a substantial progress in the last few years, there is currently a trend to study more and more complex photochemical systems. In particular, an emerging and rapidly expanding branch of photochemistry is that concerning studies of assemblies of molecular components properly combined so as to obtain light-induced functions (supramolecular photochemistry). Although much of the current work in supramolecular photochemistry is fundamental in nature, it is clear that progress in this field will be most rewarding for several applications concerning the interaction of light with matter. In particular, it will allow us to pursue research aimed at the photochemical conversion of solar energy by means of artificial systems and to make progress towards futuristic branches of science called "photonics" (photo-generated electron migration processes on a molecular basis) and "chemionics" (design of components, circuitry, and information treatment at the molecular level).

• catalysis
• colloid
• metals
• photochemistry
• polymer
• structure
• supramolecular chemistry
• synthesis

`... the editor has succeeded in bringing together a large collection of coherent papers on this timely subject. The book thereby constitutes an important, and up-to-date overview of recent efforts to construct complex molecular species and molecular assemblies that allow one to probe into the intricacies of electron transfer and transfer processes.'
`A comprehensive subject index completes this volume that should be on the shelf of everyone interested in this field.'
Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays Bas, Vol.. 107, No. 5, May 1988.

• Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, University of Bologna and Institute of FRAE-CNR, Bologna, Italy

  Vincenzo Balzani

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