Photokinetics

Photokinetics (or photokinetics) is the part of physical chemistry that deals with photoreactions and examines the reaction mechanisms of light-induced chemical reactions. Light-induced reactions are chemical reactions in which light quanta from the range of visible or ultraviolet light (rarely infrared) are absorbed and lead to chemical reactions.

The techniques for investigating such reactions were developed in Germany in particular by Theodor Förster and Heinz Mauser (see his formal kinetics ).

Further use of the term

• See also phototaxis