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The 36 pages that link to Photochemistry, each with the reason it gives.

• Potential energy surfaceRelated: Light-driven reactions often move between distinct electronic-state surfaces.

• Activation energyRelated: Absorbed photons can supply energy that allows molecules to access reactive states.

• Quantum chemistryRelated: Quantum descriptions of excited states explain light-driven molecular pathways.

• Atmospheric chemistryRelated: Sunlight drives many atmospheric reactions, including ozone formation and pollutant breakdown.

• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonNarrower topic: PAHs can undergo chemical changes after absorbing ultraviolet or visible radiation.

• Physical chemistryRelated: It applies molecular energy-level theory to light-driven chemical change.

• RetinalRelated: Retinal’s rapid light-driven isomerization is a biological photochemical reaction.

• Excited stateRelated: Excited molecules can follow reaction pathways unavailable to their ground states.

• PhotobleachingNarrower topic: Photobleaching is a photochemical process initiated when a molecule absorbs light.

• PhotocatalysisNarrower topic: Photocatalysis is a catalytic subset of light-driven chemistry.

• Oxygenic photosynthesisNarrower topic: Light absorption initiates the charge separations at the heart of the process.

• Photodynamic therapyNarrower topic: Photodynamic therapy is a biomedical application of light-driven chemical reactions.

• ErgosterolNarrower topic: Ergosterol’s conversion to previtamin D₂ is a light-driven chemical reaction.

• PhotodegradationNarrower topic: Photodegradation is one outcome of light-driven chemical reactions.

• StratosphereRelated: Sunlight drives the reactions that form and destroy ozone in the stratosphere.

• PhotodissociationNarrower topic: Photodissociation is a light-driven chemical reaction within this broader field.

• AnetholeNarrower topic: Ultraviolet light can transform anethole, making light exposure relevant to its stability.

• AstrochemistryRelated: Starlight and ultraviolet radiation break apart molecules and drive reactions.

• Gas-phase chemistryRelated: Sunlight creates excited molecules and radicals that drive gas reactions in atmospheres.

• CyclobutadieneRelated: Photochemical routes can generate cyclobutadiene transiently for trapping and reaction studies.

• Non-photochemical quenchingCompared with: Photochemistry stores excitation energy in reaction products; quenching dissipates it as heat.

• Adolf WindausRelated: Ultraviolet-driven transformations of sterols helped explain vitamin D formation.

• BenzophenoneNarrower topic: Light excitation gives benzophenone a reactive triplet state that drives many of its photochemical roles.

• CurcuminNarrower topic: Light can trigger curcumin degradation and alter its activity.

• RealgarNarrower topic: Realgar’s instability under illumination is a mineral example of photochemical change.

• Ben FeringaRelated: Light triggers key isomerization steps in Feringa’s molecular motors.

• Derek BartonRelated: Light initiates the fragmentation central to Barton’s decarboxylation method.

• George PorterNarrower topic: Porter used light both to initiate reactions and to investigate their subsequent chemistry.

• John PolanyiRelated: Polanyi’s energy-resolved methods illuminate how light-driven reactions distribute energy among products.

• Triplet oxygenNarrower topic: Light can excite triplet oxygen into singlet states with different reactivity.

• Chemical Physics & Physical ChemistryRelated: It applies molecular excited-state physics to light-driven chemical change.

• DiacetyleneRelated: Light can initiate polymerization and other reactions of diacetylene compounds.

• El-Sayed ruleNarrower topic: Orbital-character-dependent state crossings shape which photochemical pathways molecules follow.

• Johann Wilhelm RitterNarrower topic: The silver-salt reaction was an early demonstration of light-driven chemistry.

• List of interstellar and circumstellar moleculesRelated: Starlight and ultraviolet radiation both create and destroy molecules in space.

• Neon compoundsRelated: Excitation by light can create transient states in which neon-containing complexes become bound.