Includes bibliographical references (pages [471]-548) and index

Special topics -- Case studies -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- A crash course in photophysics and a classification of primary photoreactions -- Techniques and methods -- Quantum mechanical models of electronic excitation and photochemical reactivity -- Photochemical reaction mechanisms and reaction intermediates -- Chemistry of excited molecules -- Retrosynthetic photochemistry -- Information sources, tables

This new volume in the Postgraduate Chemistry Series provides a thorough overview of the principles and uses of synthetic organic photochemistry. Appropriate at postgraduate and research level it will also serve as a reference for more experienced workers