Photoaddition reactions of ο-benzoquinones to some organic molecules were ivestigated to yield three types of photoadducts. Irradiation (350nm UV light) of a dichloromethane solution of tetrahal-1, 2- benzoquinones and 1, 4-diphenylbutadiene yielded 1, 3-dienes, which was found to be used to synthesize 1-phenylphenanthrenes. The 1, 3-dienes were also produced, when irradiated tetrahalo--1, 2-benzoquinones and 1,4-dipenylbut-1-en-3-yne in the similar conditions, which was applied to get 9-phenylphenanthrenes. An enolic compound come from the tautomerization of dibenzoylmethane was found to add to ο-benzoquinones to give, 1, 4-dioxenes and 1, 5-diketones as the major products. Although depenylbutadiyne did not add to ο-benzoquinones, diphenylacetylene added to ο-benzoquinones to give $\rho$-quinomethanes as well as two isomeric $\rho$-quinomethanes. One-way photoisomerism was observed for two isomeric $\rho$-quinomethanes.

Expression of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene(cab) is repressed in the dark and activited by light. However, the detail of its regulatory mechanism is not characterized so far. To identify the interactions of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors involvedin this regulation, nuclear extracts from the light-grown and dark-adapted Arabidopsis thaliana leaves were anlayzed for mobility shift assay against 134bp fragments had two retarded bands and one retardation band, respectively, both in light-grown and dark-adapted bands in the dark-adapted tissues. A new retardation the cab 3 expression in the dark. Several light regulatory motifs are scattered in the 146 bp region of cab 3 promoter. One of the light-regulatory motifs could be the binding site for the negative regulatory factor.

The optical spectroscopic properties of the ordered perovskite structure A2BWO6 doped with Eu3+ have been studied. The experimental result about Eu3+ ordering in the system of A2BWO6 indicate the different structural conditions. Some influence of Eu3+ substitutioin on the different types of cation site have been investigated.

The effect of heat treatment in the light on the subsequent CO2 fixation was studied with isolated spinach chloroplasts to define the role of light during heat stress. The degree of inhibition in CO2 fixation after heat treatment at 35$^{\circ}C$ under full light intensity (600W/$m^2$) was same as that in the dark. However, heat treatment of isolated chloroplasts in the light manifested thylakoidal damage, which did not occur in the dark. Under weak light (10~30 W/$m^2$ ) where no thylakoidal damage occurred, the inhibition was substantially alleviated , showing protective effect of light . The inhibition caused by heat treatment in the dark or light is prevented by the addition of a few combined compounds to the medium prior to treatment. Fructose-1-6- bisphosphate(with aldolase)and ribose-5-phosphate, known to be effective combined with oxaloacetate in preventing inhibition after heat treatment in the dark were equally effective in the light even without oxaloacetate. Addition of sugar phosphate reduced the Mehler reaction, which may occur in fast rae under high light. However, the addition of bicarbnate and catalase that would remove Mehler reaction did not provide any protection, indicating that protective role of sugar phosphate is elsewhere. Furghermore, in whole plants rapid recovery from heat stress was observed in the light. The apparently lesser or equal inhibition in spite of additional thylakoidal damage under heat stres in the light and less requirement for the protection against heat treatment suggest that the inhibitory effect of heat stress is alleviated by light treatment.

Candida albcans growth inhibition experiments were carried out to determine the photoxicity of new monofunctional psoralen derivatives, PzPs and HMPzPs, as well as well known 8-MOP an d5-MOP. Although 8-MOP and 5-MOP showed distince photoxicity, PzPs and HMPzPs did not inhibit the growth of Candida albicans strain indicating that PzPs derivatives were not good candidate for the treatment of psoriasis. However, vitili해 could be treated by PzPs derivatives without severe phototosicity because psoralens are known to treat vitiligo by stimulating melanogenesis on skin.

Photosynthetic responses to dehydration were examined by the simulataneous measurement of O2 evolution and chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence in green pepper leaves. Dehydration was induced by immersing the plant roots directly in the Hoagland solution containing varying concentration (2-30%) of polyethylene glycol(PEG-6000) . Water potential of the leaf was decreased time-and concentation -dependently by PEG-treatment. The decrease in water potential of leaf was correlated with the decrease in both the maximal photosynthesis (Pmax) and quantum yield of O2 evolution, but Pmax dropped more rapidly than quantum yield at all water deficit conditions tested. However, Chl fluorescence parameters were not affected much. Dehydration did not change the initial fluorescence (Fo) and maximum photochemical efficiency(Fv/Fm) of photosystem(PS) II. Both the photochemical quenching (qP) and non-photochemical quenching(NPQ) were not changed by dehydration under low PFR(50 $\mu$mols m-2s-1 ). In contrast, under high PFR(270$\mu$mols m-2s-1)qP was slightly decreased while NPQ was greatly increased. The fast induction kinetics of Chl fluroecence showed no change in Chl fluorescence pattern by dehydration at high PFR (640 $\mu$mols m-2s-1 ), but exhibited a significant drop in peak level(Fp)at low PRFR (70$\mu$mols m-2s-1 ). PS I oxidation and reduction kinetics revealed normal reduction but delayed oxidation to P-700+, suggesting no lesionin electron flow from PSII to PSI , but impaired electron transport to NADP+,These results suggest that water stress caused by PEG-treatment results in the reduction of photosynthesis, promarily due to the reducted electron trasport from PSI to NADP+ or hampered subsequent steps involving Calvin Cycle.

In this paper, a brief overview of nanocrystallites of metal and semi-conductor materials will be presented, and then the novel synthetic method of high quality CdSe nanocrystallites developed by Bawendi group at MIT will be introduced . It will be shown that results of optical properties of surface modified nanocrystallites give the evidence that the luminescence of CdSe nanocrystallites is not originated from surface related trap states, but from intrinsic spin forbidden core states. Some of the interesting applications of CdSe nano-crystallites will also be discussed at the end.