Femtosecond Studies of Excited-state Proton Transfer Reactions in Solutions.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Experimental

Chapter 3 Solvent dependence of (sub)picosecond proton transfer in photo-excited [2,2'-bipyridyl]-3,3'-diol

Chapter 4 Femtosecond laser selective intramolecular double proton transfer in [2,2'-bipyridyl]-3,3'-diol

Chapter 5 Further investigations of the proton transfer dynamics in [2,2'-bipyridyl]-3,3'-diol: The effect of methyl substitution, and the dynamics in sol-gel glasses

Chapter 6 Femtosecond intramolecular proton transfer in photo-excited mono- and dienol derivatives of bipyridine

Chapter 7 (Sub)picosecond fluorescence upconversion studies of intermolecular proton transfer of dipyrido [2,3-a: 3',2'-i] carbazole and related compounds

Chapter 8 Fast tautomerization processes in porphycene derivatives

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