Chemistry In Microtime: Selected Writings On Flash Photolysis, Free Radicals And The Excited State

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Preface1Extract from “”Flash Photolysis and Primary Processes in the Excited State””12Extract from “”Flash Photolysis and Some of Its Applications””33Chemical Reactions Produced by Very High Light Intensities74Extract from “”Flash Photolysis and Spectroscopy. A New Method for the Study of Free Radical Reactions””85The Absorption Spectroscopy of Substances of Short Life206Studies of Free Radical Reactivity by the Methods of Flash Photolysis. The Photochemical Reaction Between Chlorine and Oxygen317Photolysis of Chlorine Dioxide and Absolute Rates of Chlorine Monoxide Reactions448Extract from “”Application of Flash Photolysis in Irradiation Studies””469Giant-Pulse-Laser Flash Photolysis of Phthalocyanine Vapor4810Nanosecond Flash Photolysis and the Absorption Spectra of Excited Singlet States4911Nanosecond Flash Photolysis5412Extract from “”Flash Photolysis into the Femtosecond – a Race Against Time””7913Studies of the Explosive Combustion of Hydrocarbons by Kinetic Spectroscopy. I. Free Radical Absorption Spectra in Acetylene Combustion9214The Mechanism of Carbon Formation11215Extract from “”The Recombination of Atoms. I. Iodine Atoms in the Rare Gases””13016The Recombination of Atoms. III. Temperature Coefficients of Iodine Atom Recombination14217Mechanism of Third-Order Recombination Reactions15218Triplet States in Solution16219Primary Photochemical Processes in Aromatic Molecules. Part 2. Observations on the Triplet State in Aromatic Vapours16320The Triplet State in Chemistry (Tilden Lecture)17221Intramolecular and Intermolecular Energy Conversion Involving Change in Multiplicity18622Acidity Constants in the Triplet State19723Energy Transfer from the Triplet State21524Quantum Yields of Triplet Formation in Solutions of Chlorophyll23525Triplet State Quantum Yields for Some Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Xanthene Dyes in Dilute Solution24226Quenching of Aromatic Triplet States in Solution by Nitric Oxide and Other Free Radicals24827Vibrational Energy Dependence of Radiationless Conversion in Aromatic Vapours25928Primary Photochemical Processes in Aromatic Molecules. Part 3. Absorption Spectra of Benzyl, Anilino, Phenoxy and Related Free Radicals27829The Electronic Spectra of Benzyl28530The High Resolution Absorption Spectroscopy of Aromatic Free Radicals29131The Electronic Spectra of Phenyl Radicals29732Photochemical Formation of Cyclopentadienyls from Benzene Derivatives31233Rate of Dimerisation of Gaseous Benzyne31334Trapped Atoms and Radicals in Rigid Solvents31835Primary Photochemical Processes in Aromatic Molecules. Part 4. Side-Chain Photolysis in Rigid Media33636Diffusion Studies in Viscous Media35037Picosecond Rotational Diffusion in Kinetic and Steady State Fluorescence Spectroscopy35838Picosecond Fluorescence Depolarisation Measured by Frequency Conversion36339Primary Photoprocesses in Quinones and Dyes. Part I. Spectroscopic Detection of Intermediates37240Photochemistry of Methylated P-Benzoquinones39141Primary Photochemical Processes in Aromatic Molecules. Part 12. Excited States of Benzophenone Derivatives40542Transfer and Storage of Chemical and Radiation Potential41943Model Systems for Photosynthesis. Part I. Energy Transfer and Light Harvesting Mechanisms42944Concentration Quenching of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Bilayer Lipid Vesicles and Liposomes44245The Interaction of Photo-Excited Chlorophyll A with Duroquinone, [alpha]-Tocopherylquinone and Vitamin K[subscript 1]44846Model Systems for Photosynthesis. Part V. Electron Transfer Between Chlorophyll and Quinones in a Lecithin Matrix45947Colloidal Platinum Catalysts for the Reduction of Water to Hydrogen, Photosensitised by Reductive Quenching of Zinc Porphyrins46848Photo-Oxidation of Water to Oxygen Sensitised by Tris(2,2-Bipyridyl)Ruthenium (II)47849Picosecond Time-Resolved Energy Transfer in Porphyridium Cruentum. Part I. In the Intact Alga49450The Flourescence Decay Kinetics of In Vivo Chlorophyll M