Photochemical Reaction of Aromatic Compounds - Something Old, Something New
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 8906
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The photochemistry of organic molecules is an early field of organic chemistry originating from the first observation of a sunlight-induced chemical reaction in 1834. The mechanism of this reaction was only established in 2007. The advent of new light sources revolutionized this field, although utilizing sunlight related to energy harvesting and storage is still a major research focus. Irreversible and reversible photochemical reactions can be employed, in particular, for the synthesis of compounds that are difficult to prepare by traditional synthetic approaches—photopolymerization, photochemical acid generation and photopharmacology, information storage, and other applications. Aromatic compounds are of particular interest among the known types of photoactive molecules, owing to their intrinsic electronic structure (photoinduced acquiring/loss of aromaticity), or in combination with various substituents at the aromatic ring. This Special Issue will involve original reports and reviews dealing with irreversible and reversible (including photochromic) light-induced reactions of known or newly designed aromatic compounds.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Khodorkovsky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- preparative photochemistry
- computational photochemistry
- photochromism
- photoswitches
- photoenolization
- photocatalysis
- photopolymerization
- aromatic compounds