Macrocycles : construction, chemistry, and nanotechnology applications / Frank Davis, Seamus Higson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Frank, 1966-

Contributor:

Higson, Séamus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macrocyclic compounds.

Physical Description:

xii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2011.

Summary:

"Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cyclodextrins.

6.5. Selectivity of cyclodextrins.

6.6. Multiple cyclodextrin systems.

6.7. Polymeric cyclodextrins.

6.8. Cyclodextrins combined with other macrocyclic systems.

6.9. Therapeutic uses of cyclodextrins.

6.10. Other uses of cyclodextrins.

6.11. Conclusions.

References.

7. Cyclotriveratylenes and cryptophanes.

7.1. Introduction to cyclotriveratrylenes and cryptophanes.

7.2. Synthesis of cyclotriveratrylenes.

7.3. Modification of cyclotriveratrylenes.

7.4. Synthesis of optically active cyclotriveratrylenes.

7.5. Modification of the bridging groups.

7.6. Modification of the aromatic rings with organometallic groups.

7.7. Selective binding applications of cyclotriveratrylenes.

7.8. Analogues of CTV.

7.9. Cryptophanes

synthesis and structure.

7.10. Cryptophanes

chemical modification.

7.11. Complexes with cryptophanes.

7.12. Cryptophane/Xenon complexes.

7.13. Other uses of cryptophanes.

7.14. Hemicryptophanes.

7.15. Conclusions.

8. Cucurbiturils.

8.1. Introduction to cucurbiturils.

8.2. Complexation behaviour of simple cucurbiturils.

8.3. Modification of cucurbiturils.

8.4. Uses of cucurbiturils.

8.5. Hemicucurbiturils.

8.6. Conclusions.

9. Rotaxanes and catenanes.

9.1. Introduction to rotaxanes and catenanes.

9.2. Rotaxanes.

9.3. Rotaxanes as molecular machines.

9.4. Thin films of rotaxanes.

9.5. Polyrotaxanes.

9.6. Catenanes.

9.7. Switchable catenanes.

9.8. Catenanes on surfaces.

9.9. Polycatenanes and catenated polymers.

9.10. Natural catenanes.

9.11. Conclusions.

10. Other supermolecular systems, molecular motors, machines and nanotechnological applications.

10.1. Introduction.

10.2. Other molecular systems.

10.3. Molecular devices, motors and machines.

10.4. Conclusions.

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470714621

047071462X

9780470714638

0470714638

9781119990291

1119990297

OCLC:

682892496

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