| BCN | Benzonitrile |
| DOSY | Diffusion Ordered SpectroscopY |
| ESA | Excited-State Absorption |
| ES-SB | Excited-State Symmetry Breaking |
| ET | Electron Transfer |
| FN | Fumaronitrile |
| HFIP | Perfluoroisopropyl iodide |
| IFB | Iodoperfluorobenzene (pentafluoroiodobenzene) |
| ISC | InterSystem Crossing |
| SCK | Smoluchowski–Collins–Kimball (model) |
| TA | Transient Absorption |
| TCSPC | Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting |
| TRIR | Time-Resolved IR spectroscopy |
| XB | Halogen bond |