STILBENES APPLICATIONS IN CHEMISTRY, LIFE SCIENCES AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

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.

Gertz I. Likhtenshtein received his PhD and his doctor of science from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, where he was appointed tot he position of Head of Laboratory of Chemical Physics of Enzyme Catalysis in 1965, becoming a professor in 1976. In 1992 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel, as a full professor in charge of the Laboratory of Chemical Biophysics and has been an emeritus since 2003. He has authored nine scientific books and around 380 papers, and his many awards include the Medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievement, the Diploma of Discovery, the USSR State Prize, the V.V. Voevodsky International Price for Chemical Physics and the Diploma of the Israel Chemical Society. Professor Likhtenshtein is a member of the International ESR Society, the American Biophysical Society, the Israel Chemical Society and the Israel ESR Society. His main scientific interests focus on mechanisms of light energy conversion and novel methods of immunoassay, nitroxides and antioxidants analysis.

Preface.
1 Stilbenes Preparation and Analysis.
1.1 General.
1.2 Classical Methods and Their Development.
1.3 Miscellaneous Chemical Methods of Stilbene Synthesis.
1.4 Physically Promoted Reactions.
1.5 Synthesis of Stilbene Dendrimers.
1.6 Stilbene Cyclodextrin Derivatives.
1.7 Stilbenes on Templates.
1.8 Stilbenes Analysis.
References.
2 Stilbene Chemical Reactions.
2.1 Halogenation of Stilbenes.
2.2 Oxidation of Stilbenes.
2.3 Stilbene Reduction.
2.4 Other Reactions.
2.5 Stilbenes in Polymerization.
2.6 Complexation.
References.
3 Stilbene Photophysics.
3.1 General.
3.2 Stilbene Excited States.
3.3 Absorption Spectra.
3.4 Fluorescence from Excited Singlet States.
3.5 Interactions Involving Triplet State and Phosphorescence.
3.6 Fluorescence of Excimers and Exciplexes.
3.7 Energy Transfer.
3.8 Intramolecular Charge Transfer.
References.
4 Stilbene Photoisomerization.
4.1 General.
4.2 Mechanisms of Photoisomerization.
4.3 Effect of Substituents and Polarity.
4.4 Viscosity Effect.
4.5 Miscellaneous Experimental Data on Photoisomerization.
References.
5 Miscellaneous Stilbene Photochemical Reactions.
5.1 Photocyclization.
5.2 Bimolecular Reactions.
5.3 Photoreactions in Stilbene Dendrimers.
5.4 Reactions in Polymers and Other Matrices.
5.5 Reaction Using Two-Photon Excitation.
5.6 Charge Transfer Ionization.
References.
6 Stilbene Materials.
6.1 Stilbene Lasers.
6.2 Electro-Optic Materials.
6.3 Electrophotographic Material.
6.4 Light-Emitting Diodes.
6.5 Materials for Nonlinear Optics.
6.6 Light-Emitting Materials.
6.7 Materials for Image-Forming Apparatuses.
6.8 Radioluminescence Materials: Scintillators.
6.9 Miscellaneous.
References.
7 Bioactive Stilbenes.
7.1 Resveratrol.
7.2 Combretastatin and Its Analogues.
7.3 Pterostilbene.
References.
8 Preclinic Effects of Stilbenes.
8.1 Resveratrol.
8.2 Combretastatin.
8.3 Pterostilbene.
References.
9 Stilbenes in Clinics.
9.1 General.
9.2 trans-Resveratrol.
9.3 Combretastatin.
9.4 Other Stilbenoids.
References.
10 Stilbenes as Molecular Probes.
10.1 General.
10.2 Theoretical Grounds.
10.3 Experimental Methods and Their Applications.
References.
11 Modern Methods of Stilbene Investigations.
11.1 General.
11.2 Nanosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.
11.3 Femtosecond Broadband Pump-Probe Spectroscopy.
11.4 Fluorescence Picosecond Time-Resolved Single Photon Counting.
11.5 The Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy.
11.6 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Depletion Spectroscopy.
11.7 High-Speed Asynchronous Optical Sampling.
11.8 Multiphoton Excitation.
11.9 Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy.
References.
12 Conclusions.
Index.