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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144321703321

Titolo

Carbon-rich compounds [[electronic resource] ] : from molecules to materials / / edited by Michael M. Haley and Rik R. Tykwinski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH

[Chichester, : John Wiley [distributor]], 2006

ISBN

1-280-85431-6

9786610854318

3-527-60799-4

3-527-60724-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaleyMichael

TykwinskiR. R (Rik R.)

Disciplina

547

Soggetti

Carbon compounds

Chemistry, Organic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Carbon-Rich Compounds; Foreword; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Pioneers of Carbon-rich Compounds; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 19th Century Achievements; 1.3 1900-1928: Dawn of the Twentieth Century; 1.4 1929-1949: Rise of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon; 1.5 1950-1969; 1.5.1 The Annulenes, Dehydrobenzoannulenes, and Phenylacetylene Scaffolding; 1.5.2 Fused Polycyclic and peri-Condensed Benzenoid Systems; 1.5.3 The Helicenes, Radialenes, Fulvalenes, and Circulenes; 1.6 1970-Present: The Way Ahead; References; 2 Electronic Conduction in Photoactive Metallo-wires; 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Attenuation along Molecular Bridges2.3 Information Transfer; 2.3.1 Intramolecular Triplet Energy Transfer; 2.3.2 Short Covalent Bridges; 2.3.3 Supramolecular Systems; 2.3.4 Prolonging the Excited State Lifetime; 2.3.5 Long-range Triplet Energy Transfer; 2.4 Molecular-scale Switches; 2.5 Perspectives; 2.6 Experimental: Selected Procedures; 2.6.1 General Procedure for the Preparation of the Mononuclear [RuL



(n)]; 2.6.2 General Procedure for the Preparation of the Hetero-Dinuclear Complexes 81(1) and 81(5); 2.6.3 Synthesis at the Complex; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References

3 All-benzenoid Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis, Self-assembly and Applications in Organic Electronics3.1 A Brief Introduction to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; 3.2 All-benzenoid PAHs - Synthesis, Structural Characterizations and Electronic Properties; 3.2.1 Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene - An Old Story with New Discoveries; 3.2.2 All-benzenoid Graphitic PAHs Larger than HBCs; 3.2.3 PAHs with Varying Peripheries; 3.2.4 ''Superbenzene'' Chemistry and Others; 3.3 Self-assembly and Application of Columnar Liquid Crystals based on PBAHs

3.3.1 Columnar Superstructures in the Bulk State3.3.2 Alignment on Substrates and Device Applications of Columnar Liquid Crystals; 3.3.3 Controlled Self-assembly in Solution; 3.3.4 Two-dimensional Crystals at the Solid/Liquid Interface; 3.4 Conclusion; 3.5 Experimental: Selected Procedures; 3.5.1 Synthesis of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene 10 by Cu(II)-mediated oxidative cyclodehydrogenation - a general procedure to prepare unsubstituted graphitic molecules [35]

3.5.2 Synthesis of hexakis(4-dodecylphenyl)-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC-PhC12) - a general synthetic method towards six-fold alkyl- and alkylphenyl-substituted HBCs [38]3.5.3 Functionalization of insoluble HBC building blocks 30-32 by Sonogashira coupling reactions [48]. Synthesis of hexakis(1-dodecynylphenyl)-peri-hexabenzocoronene (34a) as a representative example; 3.5.4 Synthesis of C96-C12 precursor 1,3,5-tris[3 ́,4 ́-di(4 ́ ́-dodecylphenyl)-2 ́,5 ́-diphenylphenyl]benzene (44a) by Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction - a representative procedure for the synthesis of branched oligophenylenes [50]

3.5.5 Hydrogenation of hexakis-dodecyl-peri-hexabenzocoronenes 74 [66]

Sommario/riassunto

This is the only up-to-date book on the market to focus on the synthesis of these compounds in this particularly suitable way. A team of excellent international authors guarantees high-quality content, covering such topics as monodisperse carbon-rich oligomers, molecular electronic wires, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, nonconjugated small molecules, nanotubes, fullerenes, polyynes, macrocycles, dendrimers, phenylenes and diamondoid structures.The result is a must-have for everyone working in this expanding and interdisciplinary field, including organic and polymer chemists, materials scientist