Chemistry 324 - Spring 2008

Here are some links for Friday’s lecture. My computer was goofy and slow so you might want to look these materials over more carefully on your own.

Jablonski diagrams

• Lecture animation
• Another diagram. This one correctly represents internal conversion and intersystem crossing as processes that (more or less) conserve energy.
• Wikipedia also has a short and useful description of internal conversion that contains some material on biochemical systems that I was unaware of

(Hanovia) Photochemical reactor

• Lecture image
• Another version that allows magnetic stirring (power supply and stand also shown; Sigma-Aldrich). Click on image for larger image.

The emphasis of my treatment of frontier MO theory has been on its application, not its theoretical foundation. When it comes to FMO, I hope that you will to be able to use it and read articles in which others refer to it.

Of course, I could say a lot more about orbitals if time permitted. If you feel like you would like to spend some extra time on this material (and this applies to everything that we cover), please come see me. Physical organic chemistry is one of my favorite subjects (nerd! nerd!) and I am more than happy to talk about any aspect of it.

Today’s PowerPoint (revised W, Feb 27)