中文摘要：

本文从光化学的最基本概念入手,简要介绍了计算光化学理论方法的发展历程和典型应用,并对不同时期的工作做简要评述,以期读者对整个计算光化学有一个整体的了解。本文还介绍了计算机硬件的发展对计算光化学的影响。最后指出目前计算光化学研究的困难和存在问题以供同行讨论。

英文摘要：

This review starts with the most basic concepts in photochemistry,followed by the introduction of developing process of theoretical methods and the related typical applications,as well as our comments.We pursue a goal that the readers can integrally understand the discipline of computational photochemistry by this review.We also indicated the effect of hardware development and the current difficulties and problems in the computational photochemistry for peer discussion.