Contents
Part I Exploration and Elucidation of Reactions from Higher
Electronic Excited States, Modulation of Electronic States
by the Local Field, and Effective Utilization of Multiple
Excitons
1 Advanced Control of Photochemical Reactions Leading
to Synergetic Responses in Molecules and Mesoscopic
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hiroshi Miyasaka, Hikaru Sotome, and Syoji Ito
2 Advanced Electronic Structure Theory for High-Accuracy
Prediction of Higher Excited States and Its Application
to Photochromic Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Takeshi Yanai
3 Enhanced and Selective Two-Photon Excitation of Molecular
Vibronic States Using Entangled Photons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Hisaki Oka
4 Stepwise Two-Photon Photochromism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Jiro Abe, Yoichi Kobayashi, and Katsuya Mutoh
5 Suppression of Internal Conversions from Pseudo-Degenerate
Excited Electronic States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Wataru Ota and Tohru Sato
6 Advanced Function Control of Photochemical Reactions
Using Mesoscopic Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Keisuke Imaeda and Kohei Imura
7 Plasmon-Associated Control of Chemical Reaction
at Nanometer Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Shuichi Toyouchi, Tomoko Inose, Kenji Hirai, and Hiroshi Uji-i
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