Photoprocesses in Transition Metal Complexes, Biosystems and Other Molecules, Experiment and Theory (NATO Science Series C 376) (1992. 460 S. 240 mm)

Elementary Notions of Photophysics.- Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions and Comparison with Experiments.- Calculation of the Lifetime of Molecules in Electronically Excited States.- Relativistic Effects in Molecular Calculations.- Spectroscopic Techniques for Organometallic Intermediates.- Photochemistry Involving Cr(Co)S - Still Some Puzzles.- Photochemistry of Organo-Metal Carbonyls: Stereochemical and Catalytic Aspects.- Photochemistry of Organometalllcs: Quantum Chemical Approach.- Photochemistry of Metal-Metal Bonded Carbonyls and its Relationship to Electron Transfer Chain Catalysis.- Supramolecular Photochemistry: Antenna Effect in Polynuclear Metal Complexes.- Photophysics of Polynuclear Complexes. Intercomponent Energy and Electron Transfer Processes.- Rigid Alkane-Bridged Donor-Acceptor Systems as Tools for the Investigation of Solvent -, Distance -, and Conformation-Effects in Electron Transfer Processes.- Spectroscopy of Biliproteins and Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Antenna Complexes.- Photosynthesis: Biological Conversion of Light into Chemical Energy.- Testing Primary Charge Separation in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers with External Electric Fields.- Examining Long-Distance Biological Electron Transfer with Synthetic Model Systems.- Tutorial Work: a Miscellany of AB Initio Quantum Chemistry. the Helium Atom Studied by Various Methods.- Posters.- List of Contributors.- List of Participants.