Matrix photochemistry, small ring compounds

This chapter provides a brief description of the matrix-isolation technique and then gives some examples of its applications in the study of organic photochemistry. The topics that have been included have been selected from areas of photochemical research to which matrix isolation has made an important and sustained contribution. The choices have been made from among many possibiHties and inevitably reflect the author s personal interests, but, in addition to this more general chapter, two specific areas of matrix photochemistry, alkenes and small ring compounds, are covered in Chapters Y and Z, respectively. 

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