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  title info:
    title: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds I
  title info:
    title: With contributions by numerous experts
  name:
    name part: Balzani, Vincenzo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Campagna, Sebastiano.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 273 p. online resource.
  abstract: Photochemistry (a term that broadly speaking includes photophysics) is abranchofmodernsciencethatdealswiththeinteractionoflightwithmatter and lies at the crossroadsof chemistry, physics, and biology. However, before being a branch of modern science, photochemistry was (and still is today), an extremely important natural phenomenon. When God said: “Let there be light”, photochemistry began to operate, helping God to create the world as wenowknowit.Itislikelythatphotochemistrywasthesparkfortheoriginof life on Earth and played a fundamental role in the evolution of life. Through the photosynthetic process that takes place in green plants, photochemistry is responsible for the maintenance of all living organisms. In the geological past photochemistry caused the accumulation of the deposits of coal, oil, and naturalgasthat wenowuseasfuels.Photochemistryisinvolved inthecontrol ofozoneinthestratosphereandinagreatnumber ofenvironmentalprocesses thatoccurintheatmosphere,inthesea,andonthesoil.Photochemistryisthe essenceoftheprocessofvisionandcausesavarietyofbehavioralresponsesin living organisms. Photochemistry as a science is quite young; we only need to go back less than one century to ?nd its early pioneer [1]. The concept of coordination compounds is also relatively young; it was established in 1892, when Alfred Werner conceived his theory of metal complexes [2]. Since then, the terms coordination compound and metal complex have been used as synonyms, even if in the last 30 years, coordination chemistry has extended its scope to the binding ofall kinds of substrates [3, 4].
  table of contents: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Overview and General Concepts -- Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Chromium -- Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Copper -- Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Ruthenium -- Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: Rhodium.
  note: edited by Vincenzo Balzani, Sebastiano Campagna.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Inorganic Chemistry
  classification: QD450-882
  classification: 541
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      title: Topics in Current Chemistry, 280
  identifier: 9783540733478
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73347-8
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