Redox Systems Under Nano-Space Control Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006 edition

Description for Sales People: This is the first book to examine redox systems using the novel principle of nano-space control, one of the most exciting fields in contemporary inorganic and supramolecular chemistry. The authors review the newest research on novel redox systems, showing how they can produce hybrid conjugated systems composed of transition and synthetic metals, metallohosts, redox-active self-assembled monolayers of helical peptides, metal-assisted DNA based pairs, photoactive antibody systems, chiral rotaxanes, and redox-active imprinted polymers. In the future, these systems will be the basis for novel selective electron-transfer reactions as well as new functional materials and catalysts. Table of Contents: Redox Systems via d, ?-Conjugation.- Conjugated Complexes with Quinonediimine Derivatives.- Realizing the Ultimate Amplification in Conducting Polymer Sensors: Isolated Nanoscopic Pathways.- Metal-Containing ?-Conjugated Materials.- Redox Active Architectures and Carbon-Rich Ruthenium Complexes as Models for Molecular Wires.- Molecular Metal Wires Built from a Linear Metal Atom Chain Supported by Oligopyridylamido Ligands.- Multielectron Redox Catalysts in Metal-Assembled Macromolecular Systems.- Redox Systems via Coordination Control.- Triruthenium Cluster Oligomers that Show Multistep/Multielectron Redox Behavior.- Molecular Architecture of Redox-Active Multilayered Metal Complexes Based on Surface Coordination Chemistry.- Programmed Metal Arrays by Means of Designable Biological Macromolecules.- Metal-Incorporated Hosts for Cooperative and Responsive Recognition to External Stimulus.- Synthesis of Poly(binaphthol) via Controlled Oxidative Coupling.- Redox Systems via Molecular Chain Control.- Nano Meccano.- Through-Space Control of Redox Reactions Using Interlocked Structure of Rotaxanes.- Metal-Containing Star and Hyperbranched Polymers.- Electronic Properties of Helical Peptide Derivatives at a Single Molecular Level.- Construction of Redox-Induced Systems Using Antigen-Combining Sites of Antibodies and Functionalization of Antibody SupramoleculesMarc Notes: The authors have drawn together the newest information on the construction of such novel redox systems using nano-space control of complexation or molecular chain-induced spaces and metal - or self-assembled spaces through combining techniques in coordination, supramolecular, and bio-inspired chemistry. Publisher Marketing: 3.1.1 ?-Conjugated Materials ?-conjugated polymers (CPs) and oligomers are materials with an extended ?-system along the backbone. The materials possess many remarkable prop- ties, including high charge carrier mobilities, electrical conductivities (doped), electrochromism, and electroluminescence [1]. These properties have been taken advantage of in exploration of potential applications including in ch- ical sensors, light-emitting devices, and ?eld-effect transistors. Many efforts have been devoted to synthesizing new conjugated polymers and oligomers in an effort to increase their processibility, optimize the desirable properties, and explore new properties. In Fig. 3.1 are shown examples of some of the CPs that have been prepared and studied. Coupling ?-conjugated materials to metal complexes gives hybrid mate- als in which the properties of the metal complex may be coupled to those of the conjugated backbone [2]. For example, these materials could be used in energy-harvesting devices such as solar cells or polymer-based light-emitting devices, wherehighchargecarrier mobilities of theconjugatedmaterialmay be combined with either the light-absorbing or emitting metal groups, giving improved device performance [3, 4]. In addition to an electronic role, metal complexes may also be used to geometrically orient ?-conjugated materials in speci?c three-dimensional arrangments in the solid state. Careful conside- tion of theelectronicinteractionsand excitedstatesisnecessary for thedesign of functional materials of this type