Handbook of Photochemistry provides quick and convenient access to chemical and physical data that are crucial to photochemical investigations from the planning and experimentation phases to the interpretation of results.

Features:

• Expands and updates information on light sources, light filters, and chemical actinometry
• Includes new tables of photophysical, quenching, and reduction potential data on metal complexes and organometallic compounds
• Contains a new section that describes common problems in photoluminescence measurements and recommends effective solutions
• Offers a wide and updated collection of references for each topic that allows readers to easily locate original articles

Contents

• Photophysics of Organic Molecules in Solution
• Electronic States
• Radiative Transitions
• Nonradiative Transitions
• Excited State Kinetics
• Transition Metal Complexes
• Electronic Structure
• Types of Excited States and Electronic Transitions
• Absorption and Emission Bands
• Jablonski Diagram
• Photochemical Reactivity
• Electrochemical Behavior
• Polynuclear Metal Complexes
• Photophysical Properties of Organic Compounds
• Photophysics of Organic Molecules in Solution
• Triplet-State Energies: Ordered
• Flash Photolysis: Designing Experiments
• Low-Temperature Photophysics of Organic Molecules A
• bsorption and Luminescence Spectra of Organic Compounds
• ESR and ODMR Parameters of the Triplet State
• Photophysical Properties of Transition Metal Complexes
• Photophysical Parameters
• Absorption and Emission Spectra
• Rate Constants of Excited-State Quenching
• Ionization Energies, Electron Affinities, and Reduction Potentials
• Ionization Energies and Electron Affinities
• Reduction Potentials
• Bond Dissociation Energies
• Solvent Properties
• Donor Number
• Luminescence Spectroscopy Measurements
• Correction of Luminescence Intensity Measurements in Solution
• Fluorescence Quantum Yield Standards
• Phosphorescence Quantum Yield Standards
• Luminescence Lifetime Standards
• Light Sources and Filters
• Spectral Distribution of Photochemical Sources
• Transmission Characteristics of Light Filters and Glasses
• Chemical Actinometry
• Ferrioxalate Actinometer
• Photochromic Actinometers
• Reinecke's Salt Actinometer
• Uranyl Oxalate Actinometer
• Other Actinometers
• Spin-Orbit Coupling
• Hammett ? Constants
• Fundamental Constants and Conversion Factors

Index

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