Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials

✍ Scribed by L. Addadi, J. Aizenberg, E. Beniash (auth.), Dario Braga, Fabrizia Grepioni, A. Guy Orpen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 501
• Series: NATO Science Series 538
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Crystal engineering is an interdisciplinary area that cuts across the traditional subdivisions of chemistry. Fuelled by our increasingly precise understanding of the chemistry and properties of supramolecular systems, interest in the potential of the field has increased rapidly.
The topics discussed in the 28 contributions in this book provide a state-of-the-art description of the field and offer new research ideas that, if pursued, will serve to strengthen the field at the interface between supramolecular chemistry and materials science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
On the Concept of a Single Crystal in Biomineralization....Pages 1-22
Introduction to Packing Patterns and Packing Energetics of Crystalline Self-Assembled Structures....Pages 23-42
Molecule-Based Magnets....Pages 43-53
Structure Determination by Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering....Pages 55-78
Theory of Intermolecular Interactions....Pages 79-88
Hydrogen-Bond Assisted Assembly of Organic and Organic-Inorganic Solids....Pages 89-106
Secondary Bonding as a Potential Design Tool for Crystal Engineering....Pages 107-127
Molecular Packing in Liquids, Solutions, and Crystals: Acetic Acid as a Test Case....Pages 129-142
Crystal Design....Pages 143-161
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Crystalline Inclusion Compounds....Pages 163-179
An Approach to the Crystal Engineering of Coordination Networks....Pages 181-208
How to Look at Bonds in Extended Solids....Pages 209-228
Diversity and Certainty — Database Research in Crystal Engineering....Pages 229-241
The Development and Application of Knowledge-Based Approaches to Molecular Design....Pages 243-260
Organic Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics....Pages 261-278
Toward Crystal Design in Organic Conductors and Superconductors....Pages 279-294
Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Structures of Rigid Organic Molecules....Pages 295-310
Rational Design of Polar Solids....Pages 311-330
Energy Minimization as a Tool for Crystal Structure Determination of Industrial Pigments....Pages 331-348
The Prediction and Production of Polarity in Crystalline Supramolecular Materials....Pages 349-368
Molecular Magnetic Clusters: a Bridge Between Molecules and Classical Magnets....Pages 369-388
Modelling Hydrogen-Bonded Structures at Thermodynamical Transformations....Pages 389-406
Discrete and Infinite Host Frameworks Based Upon Resorcin[4]Arenes by Design....Pages 407-419
Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials....Pages 421-441
Nmr and Crystallinity of Nanostructured Materials....Pages 443-458
Molecular-Ionic Halogenoantimonates and Bismuthates - a Rich Family of Crystals Showing Attractive Properties....Pages 459-468
Thermochromism of Organic Crystals. A Crystallographic Study on N-Salicylideneanilines.....Pages 469-479
Crystal Engineering: Functionality and Aesthetics....Pages 481-500

✦ Subjects

Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Crystallography