Photocatalysis and related processes occupy a strategic position for the future of Photochemistry. Indeed, applications in solar energy taming, pollution management or other environmental problems and information storage could become practical before the end of this century. Homogeneous Photocatalysis is the only book that provides the necessary fundamentals and explains how applications work at the molecular level. It includes contributions from well-known authors selected for their expertise in the field.

When one considers the overall representation of frontier orbital filling of hexacoordinate (Oh) and tetracoordinate (Td) inorganic and organo metallic complexes, it clearly appears that out of 26 cases covering both high spin and low spin situations, 21 represent paramagnetic species (K. Purcell, J. Kotz, "Inorganic Chemistry," Saunders, 1977, p561). This would suggest that, if there is a part in chemistry to illustrate the reactivity of radical species, this part certainly is inorganic organometallic chemistry. In contrast with these expectations, and whereas the standard Organic Chemistry...