And all was light..... (Thursday 2 Oct)

Moving into the daily reality of photochemistry now. We will see many natural and artificial processes in the upcoming weeks and we dive a bit deeper into the photophysical mechanisms underlying these day to day events. We start of with colour and vision. Thursday a general intro, next week looking at the photochemistry and photobiology of rhodopsins that make this all possible.

As an intro, read Klan&Wirtz Ch 1.3

Changed the timing a bit

as we have progressed the timing of the subject has shifted a bit. I have posted an updates course schedule (with chapter references up to now)

Thursday 18/9/2014

Today we will finish the story on Spectroscopy (slides last week)
I will also introduce potential energy reaction surfaces that give us tools to understand better actual photochemical ractions (involving molecular changes)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_AdLmUQhTCYUjVDb2RSdGF6dm8/edit?usp=sharing

Förster Energy Transfer calculations

If you have a PC/laptop you can do your own FRET calculations:


http://www.osmanbilsel.net/software/forster-distance-calculator

Preparing for Thursday 11 sept 2014 lecture

Today we hope to finish our survey of spectroscopic techniques.
Please continue to refer to the material as presented for the monday lecture (slides, bookschapters).
The halfway exam is coming soon, so you should be up to date with your reading

Slides for Monday 8 September

We will now talk about the techniques to measure all the phenomena we discussed in the past few weeks: spectroscopic techniques.
In the books: Klan&Wirz Chapter 3 (not in all detail)

Valeur: Chapter 6

Thursday 4 Spetember 2014

We continue to use the slides posted on Monday.
Continuing the story on electron transfer