PHOTOCHEMISTRY

IN

ORGANIZEDAND

CONSTRAINED MEDIA

Edited by

V . Ramamurthy

Contributors

vi i

Foreword

ix

Preface

xii i

1 .

Thinking Topologically About Photochemistr yin Restricted Spaces

1N. J . Turro and M . Garcia-Gariba y

2 .

Photophysical Probes for Microenvironments

39K. Kalyanasundara m

3 .

Use of Photophysical Techniques in th eStudy of Organized Assemblies

7 9C . Bohne, R. W. Redmond and J . C. Scaiano

4 .

Bimolecular Photoreactions in Crystals

13 3K.Venkatesan and V . Ramamurthy

5 .

Unimolecular Photoreactions of Organic Crystals :The Medium Is the Message

18 5J . R. Scheffer and P. R. Pokkuluri

6 .

Probing Reaction Pathways via AsymmetricTransformations in Chiral and Centrosymmetri cCrystals

247M. Vaida, R . Popvitz-Biro, L . Leiserowitz and M. Lahav

7.

Photoprocesses of Host-Guest Complexe sin the Solid State

303V. Ramamurth y

8 .

Phototransformations of Organic MoleculesAdsorbed on Silica and Alumina

35 9L. J. Johnston

9 .

Photochemistry and Photophysics in Clays andOther Layered Solids

387W. Jones

10 . Photoprocesses of Organic Molecule sincluded in Zeolites

429V. Ramamurth y

1 1 . Phototransformations on Reactive Surfaces :Semiconductor Photoinduced Organic Reactions

495H. Al-Ekab i

12. Photoprocesses in Environments of Complex Geometry :Fractal and Porous Materials

53 5D. Avnir and M . Ottolenghi

13. Recovery of Fluorescence Lifetime Distributions i nHeterogeneous Systems

563W. R. Ware

14 . Photochemical Processes in Liquid Crystals

603R. G. Weis s

15 . Photoreactions in Monolayer Films an dLangmuir-Blodgett Assemblies

69 1S . P . Spooner and D. G. Whitten

16. Host-Guest Photochemistry in Solution

73 9A. Ueno and T . Osa

17 . Photoprocesses in Organized Biological Media

78 3C. Vijaya Kuma r

18. Protein Directed Regioselective Photoisomerizatio nof the Retinyl Chromophore in VisualPigment Analogs

81 7R. S . H. Liu and Y . Shichida

19 . Application of Organized Media - Examples

84 1D. F. Eaton

Index

865