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12 Photochemical reactions 241<br />

12.1 Basic radiative processes in a two-level system; Einstein coefficients 241<br />

12.2 Fluorescence quenching (Stern-Volmer equation) 242<br />

12.3 The radiative lifetime 0 and the fluorescence quantum yield Φ 243<br />

12.4 Radiationless processes in photoexcited molecules 244<br />

12.4.1 The Born-Oppenheimer approximation and its breakdown 244<br />

12.4.2 Avoided crossings of two potential curves of a diatomic molecule 248<br />

12.4.3 Quantum mechanical treatment of a coupled 2×2 system 250<br />

12.4.4 Radiationless processes in polyatomic molecules: Conical intersections 252<br />

13 Atmospheric chemistry* 256<br />

14 Combustion chemistry* 257<br />

15 Astrochemistry* 258<br />

16 Energy transfer processes* 259<br />

17 Reaction dynamics* 260<br />

18 Electrochemical kinetics* 261<br />

A Useful physicochemical constants 262<br />

B The Marquardt-Levenberg non-linear least-squares fitting algorithm 263<br />

C Solution of inhomogeneous differential equations 267<br />

C.1 General method 267<br />

C.2 Application to two consecutive first-order reactions 268<br />

C.3 Application to parallel and consecutive first-order reactions 270<br />

D Matrix methods 273<br />

D.1 Definition 273<br />

D.2 Special matrices and matrix operations 274<br />

D.3 Determinants 277<br />

D.4 Coordinate transformations 278<br />

D.5 Systems of linear equations 280<br />

D.6 Eigenvalue equations 282

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