Five decades of mechanistic and exploratory organic photochemistry

Howard E. Zimmerman

doi:10.1351/pac200678122193

Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter January 1, 2009

Five decades of mechanistic and exploratory organic photochemistry

Howard E. Zimmerman

From the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry

https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200678122193

Abstract

This exposition summarizes a personal perspective on past and current developments in organic photochemistry. It comprises three portions. The first section describes the beginnings of our photochemical studies and how it was possible to relate photochemical reactivity to excited-state electronic structures. The second selectively relates some of the reactions and concepts developed in the intermediate years. Finally, the third portion describes our recent research.

Keywords: mechanistic; organic; photochemistry; Porter Medal

Conference

Symposium on Photochemistry, International Symposium on Photochemistry, PHOTO, Photochemistry, XXIst, Kyoto, Japan, 2006-04-02–2006-04-07

Published Online: 2009-01-01

Published in Print: 2006-01-01

Five decades of mechanistic and exploratory organic photochemistry

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