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Here, the editors Rolf Gleiter and Henning Hopf present an excellent overview of all the important aspects and latest results in cyclophane chemistry. Clearly structured and covering the entire range, the book introduces readers to the most recent research in the field. Twenty chapters, written by well-known scientists, cover in particular:
- synthesis of carbo- and heterocyclic cyclophanes and metallocenophanes,
- structural and spectroscopic properties of cyclophanes,
- current and future applications in synthesis and material science,
- novel reactions of cyclophanes,
- use of cyclophanes as building blocks in supramolecular chemistry
for this fascinating class of compounds.
Thus, this is not only an extremely valuable source of information for synthetic organic chemists, but also a ready reference for scientists working in related fields of arene chemistry, stereoselective synthesis, material science, and bioorganic chemistry.
List of contents
a) Synthesis and Reactions
Cyclophynes
Heteraphanes
Highly Strained Cyclophanes
Superphanes
Carbon-Bridged Ferrocenophanes
Endohedral Metalcomplexes of Cyclophanes
Intramolecular Reactions in Cyclophanes
Reactive Intermediates from Cyclophanes
b) Structures
X-Ray Crystal Structures of Porphyrinophanes as Model Compounds for Photoinduced Electron Transfer
Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectra of Cyclophanes
UV/Vis Spectra of Cyclophanes
Electronic Circular Dichroism of Cyclophanes
Fully Conjugated Beltenes (Beltlike and Tubular Aromatics)
Molecular Electrochemistry of Cyclophanes
NMR Spectra of Cyclophanes
c) Applications
Strained Heteroatom-Bridged Metallocenophanes
Cyclophanes as Templates in Stereoselective Synthesis
Vapor-Based Polymerization of Functionalized [2,2] Paracyclophanes: A Unique Approach towards Surface-Engineered Microenvironments
From Cyclophanes to Molecular Machines
Molecular Recognition Studies with Cyclophane Receptors in Aqueous Solutions
About the author
Rolf Gleiter is Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Heidelberg University. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 in the field of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart with F. Effenberger. Postdoctoral work was carried out with P. von R. Schleyer at Princeton University (1965/66) and Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University (1966-68). From 1969-72 he did his habilitation at the University of Basel in the laboratory of E. Heilbronner. From 1973-979 he served as Full Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt followed by a chair of Organic Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 1979. His fields of interest are Physical Organic Chemistry - photoelectron spectroscopy, applied quantum chemistry - and the chemistry of alkynes, strained hydrocarbons and metallic pi-complexes.
Henning Hopf, born in 1940, is Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. After studying chemistry in Goettingen and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he gained his doctorate 1967, he qualified as a professor in 1972 at the University of Karlsruhe. Three years later he was offered a chair at the University of Wuerzburg and from there followed an offer of a professorship at Braunschweig in 1979. Hismain areas of research concern hydrocarbon chemistry (alkines, allenes, cumulenes, aromats, cyclophanes, polyolefines, etc.) and mechanistic investigations of high-temperature reactions.
Summary
Endlich ein Werk, das den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand der Cyclophanchemie widerspiegelt! Jeder, der mit Cyclophanen arbeitet, wird von der umfangreichen Sammlung von Beiträgen führender Fachleute profitieren. Unter Federführung zweier hervorragender Herausgeber wurde der Stoff klar strukturiert und übersichtlich nach Themenbereichen geordnet (Synthese und Reaktivität, Strukturen und Analytik, Anwendungen).
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"Den Herausgebern und den Autoren ist ein großes Werk gelungen, das Chemikern in Forschung und Lehre, aber auch fortgeschrittenen Studierenden sehr zu empfehlen ist und in jeder Bibliothek der organischen Chemie zu finden sein sollte."
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