Stilbenes Applications in Chemistry, Life Sciences and Materials Science

by Likhtenshtein, Gertz I.

• ISBN13: 9783527323883
• ISBN10: 3527323880
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-02
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Filling the gap on the market for comprehensive coverage of this versatile class of compounds, the scope of this monograph ranges from preparation and modern methods of investigation, via chemical and photochemical reactions, photochronism and nonlinear effects, to stilbenes as bases for optical and measuring instruments, applications in industry, biochemistry and biomedicine, and as fluorescence-photochrome biophysical labels. Invaluable for molecular biologists, materials scientists and cell biologists, as well as catalytic, organic, medicinal and complex chemists, and those working with/on organometallics.

Author Biography

Gertz Likhtenshtein has been full Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of Negev (Israel) and emerited 2003. Among his many awards are the Medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievement, the Diploma of Discovery, the USSR State Price and the Diploma of the Israel Chemical Society. He is a member of the International ESR Society, the American Biophysical Society, the Israel Chemical Society and the Israel ESR Society.

Table of Contents

Preface

Stilbenes Preparation And Analysis

General

Classical Methods and Their Development

Miscellaneous Chemical Methods of Stilbene Synthesis

Physically Promoted Reactions

Synthesis of Stilbene Dendrimers

Stilbene Cyclodextrin Derivatives

Stilbenes on Templates

Stilbenes Analysis

Stilbene Chemical Reactions

Halogenation of Stilbenes

Oxidation of Stilbenes

Stilbene Reduction

Other Reactions

Stilbenes in Polymerization

Complexation

Stilbene Photophysics

General

Stilbene Excited States

Absorption Spectra

Fluorescence from Excited Singlet States

Interactions Involving Triplet State and Phosphorescence

Fluorescence of Excimers and Ecxiplexes

Energy Transfer

Intramolecular Charge Transfer

Stilbene Photoisomerization

General

Mechanisms of Photoisomerization

Effect of Substituents and Polarity

Viscosity Effect

Miscellaneous Experimental Data on Photoisomerization

Miscellaneous Stilbene Photochemical Reactions

Photocyclization

Bimolecular Reactions

Photoreactions in Stilbene Dendrimers

Reactions in Polymers and Other Matrices

Reaction Using Two-Photon Excitation

Charge Transfer Ionization

Stilbene Materials

Stilbene Lasers

Electro-Optic Materials

Electrophotographic Material

Light-Emitting Diodes

Materials for Nonlinear Optics

Light-Emitting Materials

Materials for Image-Forming Apparatuses

Radioluminescence Materials Scintillators

Miscellaneous

Bioactive Stilbenes

Resveratrol

Combretastatin and Its Analogues

Pterostilbene

Preclinic Effects Of Stilbenes

Resveratrol

Compretastatin

Pterostilbene

Stilbenes In Clinics

General

trans-Resveratrol

Combretastatin

Other Stilbenoids

Stilbenes As Molecular Probes

General

Theoretical Grounds

Experimental Methods and Their Applications

Modern Methods Of Stilbene Investigations

General

Nanosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Femtosecond Broadband Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Fluorescence Picosecond Time-Resolved Single Photon Counting

The Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy

Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depletion Spectroscopy

High-Speed Asynchronous Optical Sampling

Multiphoton Excitation

Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy

Conclusions

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