Title: Functional organic materials : syntheses, strategies and applications
Abstract: Preface. List of Contributors. Part I 3-D Carbon-rich &pi -Systems - Nanotubes and Segments. 1 Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes (Andreas Hirsch and Otto Vostrowsky). 1.1 Introduction to Carbon Nanotubes - A New Carbon Allotrope. 1.2 Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes. 1.3 Covalent Functionalization. 1.4 Noncovalent Exohedral Functionalization-Functionalization with Biomolecules. 1.5 Endohedral Functionalization. 1.6 Conclusions. 1.7 Experimental. 2 Cyclophenacene Cut Out of Fullerene (Yutaka Matsuo and Eiichi Nakamura). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Synthesis of [10]Cyclophenacene pi-Conjugated Systems from [60]Fullerene. 2.3 Conclusion. 2.4 Experimental. Part II Strategic Advances in Chromophore and Materials Synthesis. 3 Cruciform pi-Conjugated Oligomers (Frank Galbrecht, Torsten W. Bunnagel, Askin Bilge, Ullrich Scherf and Tony Farrell). 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Oligomers with a Tetrahedral Core Unit. 3.3 Oligomers with a Tetrasubstituted Benzene Core. 3.4 Oligomers with a Tetrasubstituted Biaryl Core. 3.5 Conclusion. 3.6 Experimental. 4 Design of pi-Conjugated Systems Using Organophosphorus Building Blocks (Philip W. Dyer and Rgis Rau). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Phosphole-containing pi-Conjugated Systems. 4.3 Phosphine-containing pi-Conjugated Systems. 4.4 Phosphaalkene- and Diphosphene-containing pijugated Systems. 4.5 Conclusion. 4.6 Selected Experimental Procedures. 5 Diversity-oriented Synthesis of Chromophores by Combinatorial Strategies and Multi-component Reactions (Thomas J. J. Muller). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Combinatorial Syntheses of Chromophores. 5.3 Novel Multi-component Syntheses of Chromophores. 5.4 Conclusion and Outlook. 5.5 Experimental Procedures. 6 High-yield Synthesis of Shape-persistent Phenylene-Ethynylene Macrocycles (Sigurd Hoger). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Synthesis. 6.3 Conclusion. 6.4 Experimental Procedures. 7 Functional Materials via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions (Joseph R. Carlisle and Marcus Weck). 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Biologically Inspired Materials via Multi-step Self-assembly. 7.3 Small Molecule-based Multi-step Self-assembly. 7.4 Polymer-based Self-assembly. 7.5 Conclusion and Outlook. Part III Molecular Muscles, Switches and Electronics. 8 Molecular Motors and Muscles (Sourav Saha and J. Fraser Stoddart). 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Mechanically Interlocked Molecules as Artificial Molecular Machines. 8.3 Chemically Induced Switching of the Bistable Rotaxanes. 8.4 Electrochemically Controllable Bistable Rotaxanes. 8.5 Photochemically Powered Molecular Switches. 8.6 Conclusions. 9 Diarylethene as a Photoswitching Unit of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction (Kenji Matsuda and Masahiro Irie). 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Photochromic Spin Coupler. 9.3 Synthesis of Diarylethene Biradicals. 9.4 Photoswitching Using Bis(3-thienyl)ethene. 9.5 Reversed Photoswitching Using Bis(2-thienyl)ethene. 9.6 Photoswitching Using an Array of Photochromic Molecules. 9.7 Development of a New Switching Unit. 9.8 Conclusions. 9.9 Experimental Procedures. 10 Thiol End-capped Molecules for Molecular Electronics: Synthetic Methods, Molecular Junctions and Structure-Property Relationships (Kasper Norgaard, Mogens Brondsted Nielsen and Thomas Bjornholm). 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Synthetic Procedures. 10.3 Electron Transport in Two- and Three-terminal Molecular Devices. 10.4 Summary and Outlook. 10.5 Experimental. 11 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials (Stephen Barlow and Seth R. Marder). 11.1 Introduction to Nonlinear Optics. 11.2 Second-order Chromophores for Electrooptic Applications. 11.3 Design and Application of Two-photon Absorbing Chromophores. 11.4 Appendix: Units in NLO. Part IV Electronic Interaction and Structure. 12 Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes in Synthetically Modified DNA (Hans-Achim Wagenknecht). 12.1 DNA as a Bioorganic Material for Electron Transport. 12.2 Mechanism of Hole Transfer and Hole Hopping in DNA. 12.3 Reductive Electron Transfer and Excess Electron Transport in DNA. 12.4 Results from the Electron Transfer Studies. 12.5 Outlook: Towards Synthetic Nanostructures Based on DNA-like Architecture. 13 Electron Transfer of p-Functional Systems and Applications (Shunichi Fukuzumi). 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Efficient Electron-transfer Properties of Zinc Porphyrins. 13.3 Efficient Electron-transfer Properties of Fullerenes. 13.4 Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Electron Donor-Acceptor Linked Molecules Mimicking the Photosynthetic Reaction Center. 13.5 An Orthogonal p-Donor-Acceptor Dyad Affording an Infinite CS Lifetime. 13.6 A Long-lived ET State Acting as an Efficient ET Photocatalyst. 13.7 Organic Solar Cells Using Simple Donor-Acceptor Dyads. 13.8 Organic Solar Cells Composed of Multi-porphyrin/C60 Supramolecular Assemblies. 13.9 Conclusion. 14 Induced p-Stacking in Acenes (John E. Anthony). 14.1 Introduction. 14.2 Anthracene. 14.3 Tetracene (Naphthacene). 14.4 Pentacene. 14.5 Higher Acenes. 14.6 Conclusion. 15 Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Conjugated Materials (Andrzej Rajca and Makoto Miyasaka). 15.1 Introduction. 15.2 Synthetic Approaches to Highly Annelated Chiral pi-Conjugated Systems. 15.3 Barriers for Racemization of Chiral p-Conjugated Systems. 15.4 Strong Chiroptical Properties in Absorption, Emission and Refraction. 15.5 Conclusion. Index.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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