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The past twenty years have seen an enormous growth of research in photochemistry. Aside from the simple increase in population, in general, and of science in particular, this growth can be assigned several causes. One is the realization that whole chemistries lay waiting to be discovered, since the reactions of molecules in excited electronic states can be distinctly different from those in their ground states. Whole “Beilsteins” of singlet and triplet state organic chemistries can be imagined! A second cause is the availability of the required instrumentation: automatic recording spectrophotometers, analytical methods such as chromatography and mass spectrometry, and of course nuclear magnetic resonance for structural work. Last but not the least of these technical advances has been the introduction of lasers. They have not only transformed the closed field of physical optics into an energetic discipline, but have vastly extended the time scale of photochemistry. Recent measurements show that processes occurring in 10-12 s can now be studied directly. Finally, the two fundamental photoprocesses of biology — the energy conversion of photosynthesis and the information conversion of vision have provided a challenge worthy of any photochemist. They have spurred a great deal of experimental and theoretical work aimed at explaining their basic photochemistry.
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Mauzerall, D. (1972). Interactions between Light and Matter. In: Fuortes, M.G.F. (eds) Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65340-7_5
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