Chiral Photochemistry

edited by Yoshihisa Inoue
and Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy

Chiral Photochemistry is the first source devoted to the topic. This reference vividly depicts the most recent innovations in photochemistry and chiral chemistry for applications in homogeneous, solid, and supramolecular systems.

It tracks a wide array of strategies, techniques, and advancements central to contemporary pharmaceutical, medicinal, agricultural, environmental, and materials science and technology.

Contents

1. Direct Asymmetric Photochemistry with Circularly Polarized Light
2. Coherent Laser Control of the Handedness of Chiral Molecules
3. Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Asymmetric Photochemistry
4. Enantiodifferentiating Photosensitized Reactions
5. Diastereodifferentiating Photoreactions
6. Chirality in Photochromism
7. Chiral Photochemistry with Transition Metal Complexes
8. Template-Induced Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions in Solution
9. Supramolecular Asymmetric Photoreactions
10. Circular Dichroism in the Solid State
11. Absolute Asymmetric Photochemistry Using Spontaneous Chiral Crystallization
12. The Solid-State Ionic Chiral Auxiliary Approach to Asymmetric Induction in Photochemical Reactions
13. Chiral Solid-State Photochemistry Including Supramolecular Approaches
14. Racemic-to-Chiral Transformation and the Chirality Inversion Process in Cobaloxime Complex Crystals Only by Photoirradiation
15. Chiral Photochemistry Within Zeolites
16. Photochemistry of Chiral Polymers

Index

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