Includes bibliographical references and index.

Molecular photochemistry of organic compounds: an overview -- Electronic, vibrational, and spin configurations of electronically excited states -- Transitions between states: Photophysical processes -- Radiative transitions between electronic states -- Photophysical radiationless transitions -- A theory of molecular organic photochemistry -- Energy transfer and electron transfer -- Mechanistic organic photochemistry -- Photochemistry of carbonyl compounds -- Photochemistry of olefins -- Photochemistry of enones and dienones -- Photochemistry of aromatic molecules -- Supramolecular organic photochemistry: The control of organic photochemistry and photophysics through intermolecular interactions -- Molecular oxygen and organic photochemistry -- A generalization of the photochemistry of organic molecules.