Absorption and Emission

6/3/98


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Table of Contents

Absorption and Emission

Orbitals

The Hydrogen Molecule

Ethylene Orbitals

Light Absorption

Ethylene Orbital Occupancy

Butadiene Orbitals

Butadiene Orbital Occupancy

Carbonyl Orbitals

Transitions in Carbonyls

State Diagram

Absorption and Luminescence Processes

Absorption and Emission Spectra

Jablonski Diagram for Naphthalene

Jablonski Diagram for Benzophenone

Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer (2)

Photosensitizers

Characteristics of a Good Sensitizer

Some Sensitizers

Some Biological Sensitizers

Reactions of Alkenes of Interest for Photobiology

Biological Examples of Alkene Reactions: Vision

Biological Examples of Alkene Reactions: Thymine

Biological Examples of Alkene Reactions: Ergosterol

Reactions of Carbonyls of Interest for Photobiology

Biological Examples of Carbonyl Reactions: Thymine

Biological Examples of Carbonyl Reactions: Riboflavin

Types of Photosensitized Oxidation

Singlet vs. Triplet Sensitizer

Type I-Type II Competition:

Oxidants to Consider:

Type I: H Abst.

Type I: Amine reaction

Redox of Ground and Excited States

Electron Transfer Oxidation

Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

What is Singlet Oxygen?

Singlet Oxygen Products

Quenching of Singlet Oxygen

Singlet oxygen Luminescence

Dimol Luminescence

Singlet Oxygen 1270 nm Emission

Time Resolved Singlet Oxygen Luminescence Detection

Monomol Luminescence

Rate Constants of Selected Singlet Oxygen Reactions

Determination of reactive intermediate

Chain Reactions

Chain Termination

Furan as a Trap

The ene reaction as a fingerprint

Cholesterol Reactions

Fatty Acid products

Peroxide Rearrangement

Water Soluble Trap

Polymer-bound Traps

Direct Production of Singlet Oxygen

Some Chemical Sources of Singlet Oxygen

Isotope Effect

Limitations to Kinetic Tests:

Skin Damage

Solar Spectrum

Sunburn, DNA, Protein

Action Spectrum for e coli Killing

Ozone Shielding

Solar Irradiation Distribution

Distribution of Basal-cell Tumors

Photosensitized Damage to Organisms

Furocoumarins

Oxygen-Dependent: Photodynamic Action

Reactions of Amino Acids with Singlet Oxygen

Some Natural Photodynamic Sensitizers

Photosynthesis

Protective Action of Carotenes in Photosynthesis

Porphyria

Carotene Therapy for Porphyria

Neonatal Jaundice

Photooxidation of Bilirubin

Lightner Experiment

The Gunn Rat-McDonagh

Bilirubin Crystal Structure

Photoisoimerization of Bilirubin

Photodynamic Therapy

Absorption of Tissue

Units for Photochemistry

Author: Chris Foote

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