1. Editor’s note

   • V. Krishnan

   EditorialNotes Pages: 311 - 311

2. Foreword

   • Sabry Abdel-Mottaleb
   • Mostafa El-Sayed

   EditorialNotes Pages: 313 - 313

3. Strategies for solar fuel generation

   • Helmut Tributsch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 331

4. Photobiotechnology: Application of photosynthesis to the production of renewable fuels and chemicals

   • E. Greenbaum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 342

5. Gold-platinum bimetallic cluster catalysts for visible light-induced hydrogen production from water

   • Naoki Toshima
   • Tetsu Yonezawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 352

6. Light-induced hydrogen production using waste compounds as sacrifical electron donors

   • Christian Königstein
   • Rupert Bauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 358

7. What’s new in stereophotolithography?

   • J. C. Andre
   • S. Corbel
   • J. Y. Jezequel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 371

8. Purification of drinking water by irradiation. A review

   • Nikola Getoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 391

9. Heterogeneous and homogeneous photoassisted wastewater treatment

   • G. Ruppert
   • K. Hofstadler
   • G. Heisler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 397

10. Kinetics of sunlight photodegradation of 2,3,4,7,8-pentachlorodi-benzofuran in natural water

    • Ken J. Friesen
    • Myrosia M. Foga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 403

11. Applied photochemistry in dental science

    • Lars-åke Lindén

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 419

12. Supramolecular photochemistry. Luminescent and redox active dendritic polynuclear metal complexes

    • Vincenzo Balzani
    • Gianfranco Denti
    • Alberto Juris

    OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 434

13. Light-induced electron transfer in simple and supramolecular Ru-polypyridine complexes

    • Heinz Dürr
    • Stefan Bo\mann
    • Hans-Peter Trierweiler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 450

14. Photophysics of pyrene substituted oligosilanes

    • D. Declercq
    • E. Hermans
    • R. D. Miller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 451 - 461

15. Kinetics of charge transfer reactions in photoelectrochemical cells

    • R. Memming

    OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 474

16. Cis-trans photoisomerization of 1,2-diarylethylenes: Effect of charge transfer interactions

    • U. Mazzucato
    • G. G. Aloisi
    • F. Elisei

    OriginalPaper Pages: 475 - 486

17. Photo-induced charge separation by ruthenium (II) photosensitizers

    • Hai Sun
    • Morton Z. Hoffman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 494

18. Photoinduced ET and back-ET in bimetallated compounds of Ru(II)-Rh(III) and Ru(II)-Co(III)

    • K. Nozaki
    • A. Yoshimura
    • T. Ohno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 503

19. Photoinduced charge transfer processes in ultrasmall semiconductor clusters. Photophysical properties of CdS clusters in Nafion membrane

    • K. R. Gopidas
    • Prashant V. Kamat

    OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 512

20. Photosensitizing properties of squaraine dyes

    • Suresh Das
    • K. George Thomas
    • M. V. George

    OriginalPaper Pages: 513 - 525

21. Photoinduced electron transfer reactions oftrans-stilbene surfactants in Langmuir-Blodgett assemblies and phospholipid bilayers

    • David G. Whitten
    • Inna Furman
    • Susan P. Spooner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 538

22. Electron transfer through vesicle membranes: Mechanistic ambiguities

    • Leif Hammarström
    • Mats Almgren

    OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 554

23. Sunlight-initiated cycloaddition reactions of the benzene ring

    • S. Y. Al-Qaradawi
    • D. C. Blakemore
    • A. Gilbert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 562

24. Synthetic chemistry via radicals generated by photoinduced electron transfer

    • A. Albini
    • E. Fasani
    • M. Freccero

    OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 566

25. Amine-assisted photochemical dehalogenation of haloanthracenes (9-halo and 9,10-dihalo compounds) and their triplet formation

    • Toshihiro Nakayama
    • Kazuyasu Ibuki
    • Kumao Hamanoue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 574

26. Preparation of some organic precursors via photolytic demetallation of their iron complexes

    • Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz
    • Christine R. De Denus
    • Krystyna Lezynska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 581

27. Light induced cycloadditions of captodative alkenes

    • D. Döpp
    • J. Bredehorn
    • M. Pies

    OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 589

28. Applied photochemistry for free radical organic synthesis by means of distannane reagents

    • W. P. Neumann
    • M. Harendza
    • H. Tews

    OriginalPaper Pages: 591 - 601

29. Photocyclization of arylethylenes: Mechanism and scope of the reactions

    • R. Lapouyade

    OriginalPaper Pages: 603 - 610

30. Spectroscopic and magnetic studies of mixed-ligand complexes of zinc (II)

    • S. Yamamoto
    • S. Ikeda
    • G. A. Crosby

    OriginalPaper Pages: 611 - 617

31. Studies of photochemical reaction by CIDNP-detected ESR spectrum

    • Q. Meng
    • Y. Yamakage
    • T. Azumi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 628

32. Electron-nuclear cross-relaxation effect on the photochemical reaction of benzaldehyde as studied by CIDNP and DNP

    • Yuzuru Yamakage
    • Qing-Xiang Meng
    • Tohru Azumi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 629 - 636

33. Exciplex mechanism of fluorescence quenching in polar media

    • Michael G. Kuzmin
    • Nikita A. Sadovskii
    • Oleg Kutsenok

    OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 649

34. The spectra, lifetime and laser activity of 2,5-bis-2(l-naphthyl) vinylpyrazine and 2,5-bis-2(2-naphthyl)vinylpyrazine

    • Samy A. El-Daly
    • El-Zeiny M. Ebeid
    • Guy Duportail

    OriginalPaper Pages: 651 - 658

35. Room-temperature phosphorescence of 2,2′-biquinoline in polymeric matrices

    • C. Cazeau-Dubroca
    • A. Peirigua
    • Ph. Cazeau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 666

36. Application of the three-level model: Rise and decay kinetics of the temperature-dependent emission of metal ions withs ²-valence electron configuration

    • M. Diehl
    • J. Degen
    • H. H. Schmidtke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 670

37. Reflectivity as a probe for chemical reactions

    • M. Schubnell
    • H. R. Tschudi
    • H. Ries

    OriginalPaper Pages: 671 - 675

38. Intramolecular and dissociation dynamics of triatomic molecules: Some results for HCN and CO₂

    • Jair Botina
    • Naseem Rahman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 684

39. Factors which determine the efficiency of sensitized singlet oxygen production

    • F. Wilkinson
    • D. J. McGarvey
    • A. Olea

    OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 694

40. First photothermal deflection spectroscopy set-up in Egypt

    • Sohair Negm

    OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 708

41. Pulsed-laser ablation and deposition of super-conducting BiSrCaCuO thin films

    • A. Giardini-Guidoni
    • T. M. Di Palma
    • S. Orlando

    OriginalPaper Pages: 709 - 714

42. Laser ablation of inorganic and organic materials

    • A. Mele
    • A. Giardini-Guidoni
    • R. Teghil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 715 - 733

43. Laser degradation of pollutants: Polychlorobiphenyls, triazines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    • R. Fantoni
    • A. Giardini-Guidoni
    • R. Teghil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 735 - 746

44. Hydrogenatom and protoninduced electron transfer reactions via triplet exciplexes

    • Haruo Shizuka
    • Minoru Yamaji

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 772

45. Resonant twophoton ionization processes of van der Waals adducts: Spectroscopy and reactivity of styrenes clustered with various molecules

    • A. Giardini-Guidoni
    • A. Mele
    • M. Snels

    OriginalPaper Pages: 773 - 782

46. Primary photophysical processes inJ-aggregates of spectral sensitisers

    • K. Kemnitz
    • K. Yoshihara
    • S. Daehne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 783 - 795

47. Photochemical reaction of [6]-l, 4-cyclophaneanthraquinone

    • Sadao Miki
    • F. M. Abdel-Latif
    • Kumao Hamanoue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 797 - 802