Core Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanochemistry

Preface

About the authors

1 Introduction

1.1 What is supramolecular chemistry?

1.2 Selectivity

1.3 Supramolecular interactions

1.4 Supramolecular design

References

Suggested further reading

2 Solution host-guest chemistry

2.1 Introduction: guests in solution

2.2 Macrocyclic versus acyclic hosts

2.3 Cation binding

2.4 Anion binding

2.5 Metal-containing receptors

2.6 Simultaneous cation and anion receptors

2.7 Neutral-molecule binding

2.8 Supramolecular catalysis and enzyme mimics

References

3 Self-assembly

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Biological self-assembly

3.3 Ladders, polygons and helices

3.4 Rotaxanes, catenanes and knots

3.5 Self-assembling capsules

References

4 Solid-state supramolecular chemistry

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Zeolites

4.3 Clathrates

4.4 Clathrate hydrates

4.5 Crystal engineering

4.6 Coordination polymers

References

5 Nanochemistry

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Nanomanipulation

5.3 Molecular devices

5.4 Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)

5.5 Soft lithography

5.6 Nanoparticles

5.7 Fullerenes and nanotubes

5.8 Dendrimers

5.9 Fibres, gels and polymers

5.10 Nanobiology and biomimetic chemistry

References

Index

Jonathan W. Steed was born in Wimbledon, UK in 1969. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University College, London, working with Derek Tocher on coordination and organometallic chemistry directed towards inorganic drugs and new metal-mediated synthesis methodologies. He graduated in 1993, winning the Ramsay Medal for his Ph.D. work. Between 1993 and 1995, he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama and University of Missouri, working with Professor Jerry L. Atwood, where he developed a class of organometallic supramolecular hosts for anions. In 1995, he was appointed as a Lecturer at King's College, London where he built up a reputation for supramolecular chemistry, including anion binding and sensing, and crystal engineering studies using strong and weak hydrogen bonds. In 1998, he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and was promoted to Reader in 1999. In 2004. he was appointed as Reader in Inorganic Chemistry at the Unviersity of Durham and was elected FRSC in 2005. Dr. Steed is co-author of the textbook Supramolecular Chemistry (2000) and more than 200 research papers. He has published a large number of reviews, book chapters and popular articles, as well as a major edited work, the Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (2004). He has been an Associate Editor of the New Journal of Chemistry since 2001.

David R. Turner was born in London, UK in 1979. He obtained his M.Sci. in Chemistry at King's College, London where he became interested in crystal nucleation and organimetallic anion sensors. He stayed on to do a Ph.D. with Jonathan Steed at King's College and at Durham University, on urea-functionalised anion receptors, including tripodal organic host species and molecular tweezers. His work also involved aspects of crystal engineering and solid state phenomena involving transition metal/ureido systems. He graduated in 2004. In January 2005, he changed countries and disciplines to begin a post-doctoral

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