1. INTRODUCTION Photoemission from organic molecules originates normally from only the
lowest excited state of a given spin multiplicity, irrespective of the photon energy used for the …

Three isomers of quinodimethanes (QDMs) adopt different electronic configurations and
geometries, generating their own characteristic physical properties. Incorporation of QDMs …

General formalism of absorption and emission spectra, and of radiative and nonradiative
decay rates are derived using a thermal vibration correlation function formalism for the …

Iteratively executed with exquisite spatial and temporal control, the selective isomerization of
polarized alkenes underpins a plethora of complex biological processes ranging from …

Energy Transfer Parameters of Aromatic Compounds focuses on the mechanisms
underlying intramolecular and intermolecular electronic energy transfer in aromatic …

Novel azulene building blocks, prepared via the cycloaddition of thiophene-S, S-dioxides
and fulvenes, allow for incorporation of the seven-membered ring of the azulene nucleus …

The generation of intense ultrashort light pulses in mode-locked laser systems has made
possible a wide range of new experiments designed to study the interaction of light with …

The anomalous fluorescence of azulene emission from S2 rather than S1 was first
recognized by Beer and Longuet-Higgins 40 years ago. Femtosecond laser studies and …

Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of Aromatic Compounds is the first book to
collect and classify all available quantitative data on the photochemistry and luminescence …

Employing a graded series of sensitizers whose triplet energies span the range from 23 to
43 kcal/mol, we mea-sured by flash kinetic spectrophotometry therates of energy transfer to …