Course: Photochemistry: From Concepts to Practice

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Course title Photochemistry: From Concepts to Practice
Course code OCH/PGFC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hlaváč Jan, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Klan Petr, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to photochemistry. History. Calibration points: energetics and dynamics. Excited states and their fates. Jablonski diagram. Photophysical and photochemical processes. Lambert-Beer law. Quantum yield. Electronic configurations. Selection rules. 2. Radiation processes. Absorption. Emission. Frack-Condon law. Chromophores. Fluorophores. Applications. 3. Radiationless processes. State Mixing. Intersystem crossing. El-Sayed rules. Spin orbit coupling. Heavy atom effect. Vibrational relaxation. 4. Mechanistic and experimental photochemistry. Rate constants. Quantum yields. Actinometry. Stern-Volmer analysis. State diagrams. Experimental photochemistry: light sources, photoreactors, flash photolysis. Safety. 5. Electron and energy transfer. Excimers. Exciplexes. Marcus theory. Electron transfer. Energy transfer. 6. Alkenes and alkynes. E-Z isomerization. Electrocyclic and sigmatropic photorearrangement. di-?-Methane photorearrangement. Photoinduced nucleophile, proton, and electron addition. Photocycloaddition reaction. 7. Aromatic compounds. Photorearrangement. Phototransposition. Photocycloaddition. Photosubstitution. 8. Oxygen compounds. Photoreduction. Oxetane formation (Patern?-Büchi Reaction). Norrish type I and II reactions. Photoenolization. Addition and hydrogen/electron transfer reaction. 9. Nitrogen compounds. E-Z isomerization. Photofragmentation. Photorearrangement. Photoreduction. 10. Sulphur compounds. Hydrogen abstraction. Cycloaddition. Photofragmentation. 11. Halogen compounds. Photohalogenation. Photofragmentation. Photoreduction. Nucleophilic photosubstitution. 12. Molecular oxygen. Ground-state and excited-state oxygen. Photooxygenations. 13. Photosensitizers, photoinitiators and photocatalysts. Organic and transition-metal species. Photosynthesis. Applications.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
After discussions on chemistry that follows the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, and learning about various photochemical applications in industry, medicine and biology as well as photochemical transformations in nature, the student will learn to understand the scientific literature in the corresponding field and interpret the results from the experimental and theoretical studies.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

The candidate is expected to conduct scientific discussion in broader context of the whole discipline.
Recommended literature
  • Klán P., Wirz J. (2009). hotochemistry of Organic Compounds: From Concepts to Practice. Postgraduate Chemistry Series. Wiley, Chichester.
  • Turro, N. J. ,Scaiano, J. C., Ramamurthy, V. (2009). Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction. University Science Books.


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