Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds I

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds I
Author: Vincenzo Balzani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540733477

This book presents critical reviews of the current position and future trends in modern chemical research. It offers short and concise reports on chemistry, each written by world renowned experts.

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds II
Author: Vincenzo Balzani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540733493

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].

Photochemistry and Photophysics

Photochemistry and Photophysics
Author: Vincenzo Balzani
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527334793

Ein Lehrbuch eines exzellenten Autorenteams mit wissenschaftlicher Erfahrung und der Kompetenz im Schreiben didaktischer Texte zu allen Facetten der Photochemie und Photophysik: Grundlagen sowie ausgewählte Beispielen moderner Anwendungen und aus der heutigen Forschung.

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Metal Complexes

Photochemistry and Photophysics of Metal Complexes
Author: D.M. Roundhill
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1489914951

Focusing on practical applications, the author provides a balanced introduction to the many possible technological uses of metal complexes. Coverage includes the transition metals, lanthanide and actinide complexes, metal porphyrins, and many other complexes. This volume meets the needs of students and scientists in inorganic chemistry, chemical physics, and solid-state physics.

Inorganic Photochemistry

Inorganic Photochemistry
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0123859050

The Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series present timely and informative summaries of the current progress in a variety of subject areas within inorganic chemistry, ranging from bio-inorganic to solid state studies. This acclaimed serial features reviews written by experts in the field and serves as an indispensable reference to advanced researchers. Each volume contains an index, and each chapter is fully referenced. - Features comprehensive reviews on the latest developments - Includes contributions from leading experts in the field - Serves as an indispensable reference to advanced researchers

The Chemistry of Ruthenium

The Chemistry of Ruthenium
Author: E.A. Seddon
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1414
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483289907

The Chemistry of Ruthenium is concerned with the chemistry of ruthenium, with emphasis on synthesis and structure. The discussion spans a wide range of fields, from coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry to structural chemistry (of both molecular and extended lattices), electrochemistry and photochemistry, as well as kinetics and spectroscopy. Comprised of 15 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the discovery and early history of ruthenium, along with its extraction and purification, isotopes, physical and chemical properties, and applications. The discussion then turns to the concept of oxidation state and a scheme for systematizing descriptive inorganic chemistry together with its applicability to ruthenium chemistry. Subsequent chapters focus on the chemistry of ruthenium(VIII), ruthenium(VII), ruthenium(VI), ruthenium(V), ruthenium(IV), ruthenium(III), ruthenium(II), ruthenium(I), and ruthenium(0). The book also considers ruthenium carbonyl clusters and nitrosyls before concluding with a review of the photophysics and photochemistry of tris(diimine)ruthenium(II) complexes. This monograph will be useful to students, practitioners, and researchers in the field of inorganic chemistry, as well as those who are interested in the chemistry of ruthenium.

Organic and Inorganic Photochemistry

Organic and Inorganic Photochemistry
Author: V. Ramamurthy
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1998-08-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780824701741

Focusing on complex naturally-occurring and synthetic supramolecular arrays, this work describes the mechanism by which transition metal complexes bind to DNA and how the DNA scaffold modifies the photochemical and photophysical properties to bound complexes. It includes details of photoinduced electron transfer between intercalated molecules, and examines thermally and photochemically induced electron transfer in supramolecular assemblies consisting of inorganic molecular building blocks.

Physical Inorganic Chemistry

Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Author: S. F. A. Kettle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662251914

GEORGE CHRISTOU Indiana University, Bloomington I am no doubt representative of a large number of current inorganic chemists in having obtained my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the 1970s. It was during this period that I began my continuing love affair with this subject, and the fact that it happened while I was a student in an organic laboratory is beside the point. I was always enchanted by the more physical aspects of inorganic chemistry; while being captivated from an early stage by the synthetic side, and the measure of creation with a small c that it entails, I nevertheless found the application of various theoretical, spectroscopic and physicochemical techniques to inorganic compounds to be fascinating, stimulating, educational and downright exciting. The various bonding theories, for example, and their use to explain or interpret spectroscopic observations were more or less universally accepted as belonging within the realm of inorganic chemistry, and textbooks of the day had whole sections on bonding theories, magnetism, kinetics, electron-transfer mechanisms and so on. However, things changed, and subsequent inorganic chemistry teaching texts tended to emphasize the more synthetic and descriptive side of the field. There are a number of reasons for this, and they no doubt include the rise of diamagnetic organometallic chemistry as the dominant subdiscipline within inorganic chemistry and its relative narrowness vis-d-vis physical methods required for its prosecution.