This book gives an extensive description of the state-of-the-art in research on excited-state hydrogen bonding and hydrogen transfer in recent years.
Initial chapters present both the experimental and theoretical investigations on the excited-state hydrogen bonding structures and dynamics of many organic and biological chromophores. Following this, several chapters describe the influences of the excited-state hydrogen bonding on various photophysical processes and photochemical reactions, for example: hydrogen bonding effects on fluorescence emission behavior and photoisomerization; the role of hydrogen bonding in photosynthetic water splitting; photoinduced electron transfer and solvation dynamics in room temperature ionic liquids; and hydrogen bonding barrier crossing dynamics at bio-mimicking surfaces. Finally, the book examines experimental and theoretical studies on the nature and control of excited-state hydrogen transfer in various systems.
Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State is an essential overview of this increasingly important field of study, surveying the entire field over 2 volumes, 39 chapters and 1000 pages. It will find a place on the bookshelves of researchers in photochemistry, photobiology, photophysics, physical chemistry and chemical physics.
"...I commend the reading of this monograph to all chemists."
Professor Richard N. Zare
Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA
"...The book is sure to become a classic in the field."
Professor Donald G. Truhlar
Regents Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Nanoparticle Science and Engineering, and Scientific Computation, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA
"...Overall, the book represents a good balance of experimental and computational research. The book provides an excellent introduction to an important contemporary research topic for graduate students as well as for experienced researchers."
Professor Wolfgang Domcke
Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
"...This will be an excellent text book and reference material for graduate students and research scientists."
Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya
Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Director Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
"...This is the first book to review the excited-state hydrogen bonding, detailing the great variety of consequences found. It provides new insights into the very nature of the forces that create secondary structure in chemistry and biology."
Professor Jeffrey R. Reimers
ARC Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry F11, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
