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Chemistry in microtime : selected writings on flash photolysis, free radicals, and the excited state /

This volume contains a selection of the pioneering papers by Nobel Laureate George Porter. It outlines his work on fast reactions, occurring in times from milliseconds to femtoseconds, in photochemistry, photosynthesis and solar energy, and includes the papers which led to the award of the Nobel Pri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Porter, George, 1920-2002
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Ch. 1. Flash photolysis. 1. Extract from "Flash photolysis and primary processes in the excited state"
  • 2. Extract from "Flash photolysis and some of its applications"
  • 3. Chemical reactions produced by very high light intensities / R.G.W. Norrish and G. Porter
  • 4. Extract from "Flash photolysis and spectroscopy. A new method for the study of free radical reactions" / G. Porter
  • 5. The absorption spectroscopy of substances of short life / G. Porter
  • 6. Studies of free radical reactivity by the methods of flash photolysis. The photochemical reaction between chlorine and oxygen / G. Porter and F.J. Wright
  • 7. Photolysis of chlorine dioxide and absolute rates of chlorine monoxide reactions / F.J. Lipscomb, R.G.W. Norrish and G. Porter
  • 8. Extract from "Application of flash photolysis in irradiation studies" / G. Porter
  • 9. Giant-pulse-laser flash photolysis of phthalocyanine vapor / G. Porter and J.I. Steinfeld
  • 10. Nanosecond flash photolysis and the absorption spectra of excited singlet states / G. Porter and M.R. Topp
  • 11. Nanosecond flash photolysis / G. Porter and M.R. Topp
  • 12. Extract from "Flash photolysis into the femtosecond
  • a race against time" / G. Porter
  • ch. 2. Adiabatic flash photolysis. Combustion and carbon formation. 13. Studies of the explosrve combustion of hydrocarbons by kinetic spectroscopy. I. free radical absorption spectra in acetylene combustion / R.G.W. Norrish, G. Porter and B.A. Thrush
  • 14. The mechanism of carbon formation / G. Porter
  • ch. 3. Atom recombination. 15. Extract from "The recombination of atoms. I. Iodine atoms in the rare gases" / M.I. Christie, R.G.W. Norrish and G. Porter
  • 16. The recombination of atoms. III. Temperature coefficients of iodine atom recombination / G. Porter and J.A. Smith
  • 17. Mechanism of third-order recombination reactions / G. Porter
  • ch. 4. The triplet state. 18. Triplet states in solution / G. Porter and M.W. Windsor
  • 19. Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 2. Observations on the triplet state in aromatic vapours / G. Porter and F.J. Wright
  • 20. The triplet state in chemistry (Tilden lecture) / G. Porter
  • 21. Intramolecular and intermolecular energy conversion involving change of multiplicity / G. Porter and M.R. Wright
  • 22. Acidity constants in the triplet state / G. Jackson and G. Porter
  • 23. Energy transfer from the triplet state / G. Porter and F. Wilkinson
  • 24. Quantum yields of triplet formation in solutions of chlorophyll / P.G. Bowers and G. Porter
  • 25. Triplet state quantum yields for some aromatic hydrocarbons and xanthene dyes in dilute solution / P.G. Bowers and G. Porter
  • 26. Quenching of aromatic triplet states in solution by nitric oxide and other free radicals / O.L.J. Gijzeman, F. Kaufman and G. Porter
  • 27. Vibrational energy dependence of radiationless conversion in aromatic vapours / G.S. Beddard [and others].
  • Ch. 5. Aromatic free radicals. 28. Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 3. Absorption spectra of benzyl, anilino, phenoxy and related free radicals / G. Porter and F.J. Wright
  • 29. The electronic spectra of benzyl / G. Porter and E. Strachan
  • 30. The high resolution absorption spectroscopy of aromatic free radicals / G. Porter and B. Ward
  • 31. The electronic spectra of phenyl radicals / G. Porter and B. Ward
  • 32. Photochemical formation of cyclopentadienyls from benzene derivatives / G. Porter and B. Ward
  • 33. Rate of dimerisation of gaseous benzyne / G. Porter and J.I. Steinfeld
  • ch. 6. Trapped radicals. 34. Trapped atoms and radicals in rigid solvents / I. Norman and G. Porter
  • 35. Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 4. Side-chain photolysis in rigid media / G. Porter and E. Strachan
  • ch. 7. Molecular dynamics in solution. 36. Diffusion studies in viscous media / A.D. Osborne and G. Porter
  • 37. Picosecond rotational diffusion in kinetic and steady state fluorescence spectroscopy / G. Porter, P.J. Sadkowski and C.J. Tredwell
  • 38. Picosecond fluorescence depolarisation measured by frequency conversion / G.S. Beddard, T. Doust and G. Porter
  • ch. 8. Photochemistry of quinones and ketones. 39. Primary photoprocesses in quinones and dyes. Part I. Spectroscopic detection of intermediates / N.K. Bridge and G. Porter
  • 40. Photochemistry of methylated p-benzoquinones / D.R. Kemp and G. Porter
  • 41. Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 12. Excited states of benzophenone derivatives / G. Porter and P. Suppan
  • ch. 9. Models for In-vitro photosynthesis. 42. Transfer and storage of chemical and radiation potential / G. Porter
  • 43. Model systems for photosynthesis. Part I. Energy transfer and light harvesting mechanisms / A.R. Kelly and G. Porter
  • 44. Concentration quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence in bilayer lipid vesicles and liposomes / G.S. Beddard, S.E. Carlin and G. Porter
  • 45. The interaction of photo-excited chlorophyll a with duroquinone, [symbol]-tocopherylquinone and vitamin K[symbol] / J.M. Kelly and G. Porter
  • 46. Model systems for photosynthesis. Part V. Electron transfer between chlorophyll and quinones in a lecithin matpjx / G.S. Beddard, G. Porter and G.M. Weese
  • 47. Colloidal platinum catalysts for the reduction of water to hydrogen, photosensitised by reductive quenching of zinc porphyrins / A. Harriman, G. Porter and M.-C. Richoux
  • 48. Photo-oxidation of water to oxygen sensitised by TRIS(2, 2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium (II) / A. Harriman, G. Porter and P. Walters
  • ch. 10. Photosynthesis in vivo. 49. Picosecond time-resolved energy transfer in porphyridium cruentum. Part I. In the intact alga / G. Porter [and others]
  • 50. The fluorescence decay kinetics of in vivo chlorophyll measured using low intensity excitation / G.S. Beddard [and others]
  • ch. 11. Femtosecond kinetic studies of photosystem 2. 51. Femtosecond processes in photosynthesis / G. Porter
  • 52. Subpicosecond equilibration of excitation energy in isolated photosystem II reaction centres / J.R. Durrant [and others]
  • 53. A multimer model for P680, the primary electron donor of photosystem II / J.R. Durrant [and others].