Transition Metals in Supramolecular Chemistry

✍ Scribed by Vincenzo Balzani, Alberto Credi (auth.), Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Series: NATO ASI Series 448
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the pioneering publications on coordination chemistry by Lehn and Pedersen in the late 1960s, coupled with the more orthodox interest from the transition metal chemists on template reactions (Busch, 1964), the field of supramolecular chemistry has grown at an astonishing rate. The use of transition metals as essential constituents of multi-component assemblies has been especially sharp in recent years, since the metals are prone to quick and reversible redox changes, and there is a wide variety of metal--ligand interactions. Such properties make supramolecular complexes of transition metal ions suitable candidates for exploration as light--energy converters and signal processors.
Transition Metals in Supramolecular Chemistry focuses on the following main topics: (1) metal controlled organization of novel molecular assemblies and shapes; (2) design of molecular switches and devices operating through metal centres; (3) supramolecular catalysts that mimic metalloenzymes; (4) metal-containing sensory reagents and supramolecular recognition; and (5) molecular materials that display powerful electronic, optoelectronic and magnetic properties.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. Energy- Conversion and Information-Processing Devices based on Transition Metal Complexes....Pages 1-32
Transition Metal Redox Active Ligand Systems for Recognising Cationic and Anionic Guest Species....Pages 33-54
Ligand Design for Enhanced Molecular Organization—Selectivity and Specific Sequencing in Multiple Receptor Ligands, and Orderly Molecular Entanglements....Pages 55-79
Metal-Ions: A Self-Assembly Motif in Supramolecular Oligomers....Pages 81-99
Biomedical Targeting: A Role for Supramolecular Chemistry....Pages 101-114
Redox Chemistry of Metal Ion Complexes: Preparation of New Materials....Pages 115-131
pH and Redox Switches based on Metal Centres....Pages 133-152
Schiff Base Macrocycles and Metallo-Biosite Modelling....Pages 153-169
Self-Assembly of Mono- and Dinuclear Metal Complexes; Oxidation Catalysis and Metalloenzyme Models....Pages 171-190
Artificial Porphyrins Containing Cyclopropane Units Functioning as Electron Shuttles....Pages 191-209
Homo- and Heterobinuclear Metal Complexes with Bismacrocyclic Ligands....Pages 211-225
Ferrocene as a Building Block for Supramolecular Chemistry Systems....Pages 227-243
Macrocyclic Polyamine Complex Beyond Metalloenzyme Models....Pages 245-259
Towards Molecular Wires and Switches: Exploiting Coordination Chemistry for Non-Linear Optics and Molecular Electronics....Pages 261-278
Molecular Interactions Between Metalloproteins Involved in Electron Transfer Processes: Tetraheme Cytochrome c 3 and Flavodoxin. Nmr and Molecular Modeling Studies....Pages 279-290
Supramolecular Models of Metallo-Proteins....Pages 291-307
The Role of Macrocyclic Receptors in Organization of Metal Centers....Pages 309-328
Metallomacrocycles and -Clefts : Receptors for Neutral Molecules and Anions....Pages 329-349
Chiral Recognition by Functionalized Cyclodextrin Metal Complexes....Pages 351-370
Transition Metal-Directed Threading and Knotting Processes....Pages 371-390
Expanded Porphyrins. Receptors for Cationic, Anionic, and Neutral Substrates....Pages 391-408
Following the Self-Assembly Process in Solution....Pages 409-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-435

✦ Subjects

Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry