Oxygen

Readings and Activities

Read the article entitled Appreciating Oxygen, the article On the state energies of molecular oxygen, and learn about the role of oxygen in photodynamic therapy.

Here is a short reading on the color of liquid oxygen reading on the color of liquid oxygen and the chemiluminescence observed from the Mallet reaction.

Examine the photoelectron spectrum of O2; here are lecture notes. Here are the lecture slides used in class.


Further resources: interactive molecular orbitals of O2, molecular orbitals of ozone, reading on the topic of porphyria, reading on the Structure of PSII OEC, lecture notes by Dan Nocera, and supplemental exercises.