“For crystal-clear introduction to organic photochemistry in pictorial and intuitive terms, this book comprises the same introductory chapter that makes up Principles of Modern Molecular Photochemistry. In the second portion of the book, the authors show the student how the apparent complicity of organic Photochemisty can be reduced to a set of simple paradigms that can be applied to all organic functional groups. The critical concepts of electronic and spin interaction are presented in pictorial terms that can be readily understood by students al the undergraduate and graduate levels.”

Preface.
Chapter 1. Molecular photochemistry of Organic Compounds: an Overview.
Chapter 2. Electronic, vibrational, and Spin Configurations of electronically excited states.
Chapter 3. Transitions between states: photophysical Processes.
Chapter 4. Radioactive transitions between electronic states.
Chapter 5. Photophysical radiotionless. Transitions.
Chapter 6. A theory of molecular organic Photochemistry.
Chapter 7. Energy transfer and electron transfer.
Chapter 8. Mechanistic organic photochemistry.
Chapter 9. Photochemistry of carbonyl compounds.
Chapter 10. Photochemistry of olefins.
Chapter 11. Photochemistry of enones and Dienones.
Chapter 12. Photochemistry of aromatic molecules.
Chapter 13. Supermolecular Photochemistry.
Chapter 14. Molecula wxygen and organic photochemistry.
Chapter 15. A generalization of the photochemistry of organic molecules.
Index.