Frans De Schryver: forty years of photochemistry and photophysics.

Frans De Schryver (born 1939), to whom this special issue of ChemPhysChem is dedicated on the occasion of his 65th birthday, started his career in 1961 as a polymer chemist with a master thesis entitled “Reaction of Phenyl Isocyanate with Aryl Amines” in the laboratory of J. C. Jungers at the K.U.Leuven. He then moved to the group of the famous polymer chemist G. Smets, where he received his Ph.D. for a thesis on the “Influence of the Viscosity on the Photopolymerization of Styrene” in 1964. In this thesis we already find the major foci of his scientific achievements: polymers and photochemistry. In 1964 he joined the group of C. S. Marvel at the University of Arizona in Tucson as a Fullbright Fellow engaged in polymer synthesis. After returning to the K.U.Leuven, where he studied new systems leading to photopolymerization and photocycloisomerization, he continued his postdoctoral research, focused on the emerging domain of photochemistry and photophysics, in the groups of Th. Fcrster (Stuttgart University) and A. Weller (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gcttingen). In this period he married Suzy Bosteels and had two daughters, Dominique (born 1964) and Catherine (born 1971). In 1969 he became assistant professor at the K.U.Leuven, where he built up a research group which evolved into the Laboratory for Photochemistry and Spectroscopy (LPS). In the 1970s, when the curricula at K.U.Leuven were reformed, he started teaching general chemistry and introduced new courses on spectrosco11/2005

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[3]  Jaume Veciana,et al.  Homo- and Heterochiral Supramolecular Tapes from Achiral, Enantiopure, and Racemic Promesogenic Formamides: Expression of Molecular Chirality in Two and Three Dimensions. , 2001, Angewandte Chemie.

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[18]  M. Auweraer,et al.  The influence of solvent polarity on the nonradiative decay of exciplexes , 1991 .

[19]  M. Auweraer,et al.  Influence of alcohols and alkanes on the aggregation behavior of ionic surfactants in water , 1990 .

[20]  M. Ameloot,et al.  A systematic study of the global analysis of multiexponential fluorescence decay surfaces using reference convolution , 1990 .

[21]  L. Bokobza,et al.  Investigation of local molecular motions in bulk polymers through the emission properties of an intramolecular excimer-forming probe , 1990 .

[22]  F. D. De Schryver,et al.  Inhibition or initiation of a radical polymerization reaction by an ultraviolet‐induced enzymatic process , 1987, Biotechnology and bioengineering.

[23]  J. Mewis,et al.  Thermoreversible gelation of syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) , 1987 .

[24]  F. C. Schryver,et al.  Aggregation behavior in inverse micellar systems: spectroscopic evidence for a unified model , 1986 .

[25]  F. Willig,et al.  Photophysics of 2-phenyl-3-indolocarbocyanine dyes , 1986 .

[26]  F. D. De Schryver,et al.  Fluorescence decay of 1-methylpyrene in small unilamellar l-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles. A temperature and concentration dependence study. , 1984, Biophysical chemistry.

[27]  N. Tamai,et al.  Absorption spectra and dynamics of some excited and ionic dicarbazolyl compounds with specific geometrical structures , 1983 .

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[29]  N. Boens,et al.  Fluorescence of the diastereoisomers of 2,4-di(N-carbazolyl)pentane and the two excimers observed in poly(N-vinylcarbazole) , 1982 .

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[32]  M. Auweraer,et al.  Quenching of 1-methylpyrene by Cu2+ in sodium dodecylsulfate. A more general kinetic model , 1979 .

[33]  F. D. Schryver,et al.  Photochemistry of nonconjugated bichromophoric systems - photopolymerization of "n,n-alkylenebis(dimethylmaleimides) , 1974 .

[34]  F. D. Schryver,et al.  Photochemistry of non-conjugated bichromophoric systems. Photocyclomerization of 1,1′ and 2,2′ linked dianthracenes , 1973 .