Functional Organic Materials

Thomas J. J. Müller is currently professor at the university of Düsseldorf. He is interested in the synthetic, methodological and physical chemical development of heterocyclic chemistry and its implications in medicinal chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology. Uwe H. F. Bunz is professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta working on alkyne chemistry, polymer chemistry, chemistry of carbon rich materials, sugar and carbohydrate chemistry.

PART I: 3-D-CARBORICH PI-SYSTEMS - NANOTUBES AND SEGMENTS
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
Cyclophenacene Cut Out of Fullerene
PART II: STRATEGIC ADVANCES IN CHROMOPHORE AND MATERIALS SYNTHESES
Swivel Cruciforms
Design of pi-Conjugated Systems Using Organophosphorous Building Blocks
Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Chromophores by Combinatorial Strategies and Multi-component Reactions
High-yield Synthesis of Shape-persistent Phenylene-Ethynylene Macrocycles
Self-Assembly Strategies towards Multifunctional Materials
PART III: MOLECULAR MUSCLES, SWITCHES AND ELECTRONICS
Molecular Motors and Muscles
Diarylethene as a Photoswitching Unit of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction
Thiol End-capped Molecules for Molecular Electronics: Synthetic Methods, Molecular Junctions, and Structure-Property Relationships
Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials
PART IV: ELECTRONIC INTERACTION AND STRUCTURE
Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes in Synthetically Modified DNA
Electron Transfer of pi-Functional Systems and Applications
Induced pi-Stacking in Acenes
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Conjugated Materials

"...In summary, I can only agree with the editors stating, on the back cover of the book, "A 'must have' for everyone working in this new and rapidly expanding field."
Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 07/2007