Tomorrow's Chemistry Today: Concepts In Nanoscience, Organic Materials And Environmental Chemistry

Tomorrow’s Chemistry Today Edited by Bruno Pignataro Related Titles Mathias Christmann, Sefan Bräse (eds.) Asymmetric Synthesis – The Essentials 2nd, completely revised edition Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Scott A. Snyder Classics in Total Synthesis II More Targets, Strategies, Methods 2003 ISBN: 978-3-527-30685-5 2007 ISBN: 978-3-527-32093-6 Tomas Hudlicky and Josephine W. Reed The Way of Synthesis Evolution of Design and Methods for Natural Products 2007 ISBN: 978-3-527-32077-6 Carsten Schmuck, Helma Wennemers (eds.) Highlights in Bioorganic Chemistry Methods and Applications 2004 ISBN: 978-3-527-30656-5 Guo-Qiang Lin, Yue-Ming Li, Albert S. C. Chan Principles and Applications of Asymmetric Synthesis 2001 ISBN: 978-0-471-40027-1 Tomorrow’s Chemistry Today Concepts in Nanoscience, Organic Materials and Environmental Chemistry Edited by Bruno Pignataro The Editor Professor Bruno Pignataro Department of Physical Chemistry University of Palermo Valle delle Scienze 90128 Palermo Italy All books published by Wiley-VCH are carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editors, and publisher do not warrant the information contained in these books, including this book, to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Library of Congress Card No.: applied for British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at . © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim All rights reserved (including those of translation into other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form – by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means – nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by law. Typesetting SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printing betz-druck GmbH, Darmstadt Binding Litges & Dopf Buchbinderei GmbH, Heppenheim Cover Adam Design, Weinheim Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany Printed on acid-free paper ISBN: 978-3-527-31918-3 V Contents Preface XV Author List XXI Member Societies XXV Part One Self-Organization, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4.1 1.4.2 1.4.3 1.4.4 1.5 1.5.1 1.5.2 1.5.3 1.5.4 1.6 1.6.1 1.6.2 1.6.3 1.6.4 1.7 1.8 Subcomponent Self-Assembly as a Route to New Structures and Materials 3 Jonathan R. Nitschke Introduction 3 Aqueous Cu(I) 5 Chirality 7 Construction 8 Dicopper Helicates 8 Tricopper Helicates 10 Catenanes and Macrocycles 11 [2 × 2] Tetracopper(I) Grid 12 Sorting 13 Sorting Ligand Structures with Cu(I) 13 Simultaneous Syntheses of Helicates 13 Sorting within a Structure 14 Cooperative Selection by Iron and Copper 17 Substitution/Reconfiguration 20 New Cascade Reaction 20 Hammett Effects 22 Helicate Reconfigurations 23 Substitution as a Route to Polymeric Helicates 24 Conclusion and Outlook 27 Acknowledgments 27