INTERMEDIATE TEXT BOOK OF CHEMISTRY

By C. LUMIE

CONTENTS OVERVIEW – WHAT IS SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY? REFERENCES THE CHEMISTRY OF MOLECULAR RECOGNITION – HOST MOLECULES AND GUEST MOLECULES MOLECULAR RECOGNITION AS THE BASIS FOR SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS IN MOLECULAR RECOGNITION CROWN ETHERS AND RELATED HOSTS – THE FIRST CLASS OF ARTI?CIAL HOST SIGNAL INPUT/OUTPUT IN CROWN ETHER SYSTEMS CHIRAL RECOGNITION BY CROWN ETHERS MACROCYCLIC POLYAMINES – NITROGEN-BASED CYCLIC HOSTS CYCLODEXTRIN – A NATURALLY OCCURRING CYCLIC HOST CALIXARENE – A VERSATILE HOST OTHER HOST MOLECULES – BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CAVITIES ENDORECEPTORS AND EXORECEPTORS MOLECULAR RECOGNITION AT INTERFACES – THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGICAL RECOGNITION VARIOUS DESIGNS OF MOLECULAR RECOGNITION SITES AT INTERFACES CONTROLLING SUPRAMOLECULAR TOPOLOGY – THE ART OF BUILDING SUPERMOLECULES FULLERENES – CARBON SOCCER BALLS CARBON NANOTUBES – THE SMALLEST TUBULAR MOLECULES DENDRIMERS – MOLECULAR TREES ROTAXANES – THREADING MOLECULAR RINGS CATENANES AND MOLECULAR CAPSULES – COMPLEX MOLECULAR ASSOCIATIONS MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY – HOW TO BUILD THE LARGE SUPERMOLECULES PROGRAMMED SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY SUPRAMOLECULAR CRYSTALS MACROSCOPIC MODELS OF SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY SUPERMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY THROUGH FUZZY INTERACTIONS STRUCTURES AND FORMATION MECHANISMS OF CELL MEMBRANES MICELLES – DYNAMIC SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES LIPOSOMES, VESICLES, AND CAST FILMS – SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY BASED ON LIPID BILAYERS MONOLAYERS AND LB FILMS – CONTROLLABLE LAYERED ASSEMBLY SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS – MONOLAYERS STRONGLY BOUND TO SURFACES ALTERNATE LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLY – SUPRAMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE OBTAINED WITH BEAKERS AND TWEEZERS HIERARCHICAL HIGHER ORGANIZATION – FROM BILAYERS TO FIBERS AND RODS ARTI?CIAL MOLECULAR PATTERNS – ARTI?CIALLY DESIGNED MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENT ARTI?CIAL ARRANGEMENT OF MOLECULES IN A PLANE – TWO-DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR PATTERNING APPLICATIONS OF SUPERMOLECULES – MOLECULAR DEVICES AND NANOTECHNOLOGY WHAT IS A MOLECULAR DEVICE? READING SIGNALS FROM MOLECULAR DEVICE MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES – CONTROLLING ELECTRICITY USING SUPERMOLECULES MOLECULAR PHOTONIC DEVICES – CONTROLLING LIGHT WITH SUPERMOLECULES MOLECULAR COMPUTERS – SUPERMOLECULES THAT CAN THINK AND CALCULATE MOLECULAR MACHINES – SUPERMOLECULES THAT CAN CATCH OBJECTS, MOVE AND ROTATE MOLECULAR DEVICES WITH DIRECTIONAL FUNCTIONALITY – SUPERMOLECULES THAT TRANSMIT SIGNALS IN A DESIRED DIRECTION SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY & NANOTECHNOLOGY TOWARD FUTURE BIOLOGICAL SUPERMOLECULES – LEARNING FROM NATURE SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS SEEN IN THE BIOLOGICAL WORLD CONTROLLING MATERIAL TRANSPORT – ION CHANNELS INFORMATION CONVERSION AND AMPLI?CATION – SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION ENERGY CONVERSION – PHOTOSYNTHESIS MATERIAL CONVERSION – NATURAL AND ARTI?CIAL ENZYMES CLEAVING GENES – RESTRICTION ENZYMES TAILOR-MADE ENZYMES – CATALYTIC ANTIBODIES KEY TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE – RIBOZYMES COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY AND EVOLUTIONARY MOLECULAR ENGINEERING