Crystalline Molecular Complexes and Compounds: Structures and Principles(18 International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography)

This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts. Perhaps better known as molecular complexes and compounds, these crystals are currently estimated (from molecular recognition studies) to make up one quarter of the world's crystals, providing evidence for some sort of special attraction between the two components. DNA is perhaps the most famous example but others (hydrates, solvates, host-guest inclusion complexes, donor-acceptor compounds) pervade the whole body of solid state chemistry. Although much research has been published, there has never been a comprehensive and unified treatment of the whole field. This book has been designed to fill this gap, comparing and contrasting the various examples and the different types of interaction (hydrogen bonding, inclusion and localized or delocalized charge transfer). More than 600 figures, 200 tables and 3500 references are included in the book. Since most 'parent compounds' form a number of adducts, the fraction of crystalline binary adducts is only going to grow making this account just the 'tip of the iceberg'.

Table of Contents:
One: Some preliminaries 1: Structural principles in the classification of binary adducts 2: Historical outline Two: Moieties within molecules 3: The enclosure molecules - crown ethers, cryptands and related molecules - as hosts 4: Cyclodextrins, and some analogues, as hosts 5: Crystal chemistry of some DNA oligonucleotides and their complexes Three: Host-guest inclusion complexes 6: Channel inclusion complexes formed by hosts of lesser versatility 7: Clathrate inclusion complexes formed by hosts of lesser versatility 8: Inclusion complexes formed by versatile hosts 9: Inter-lamellar complexes Four: Packing complexes 10: Packing complexes Five: Molecular compounds with localised interactions 11: Donor-acceptor molecular compounds (essentially localized interactions) 12: Hydrogen-bonded compounds Six: Molecular compounds with delocalised interactions 13: General introduction 14: Layered molecules with intramolecular donor-acceptor interactions 15: Crystal chemistry of mixed stack pi-pi* molecular compounds 16: Crystal physics of mixed stack pi-pi* molecular compounds 17: Segregated stack pi molecular compounds Appendix 1. Thermodynamic measurements on binary adducts.

About the Author :
Frank H. Herbstein is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

Review :
`... very useful to a large number of crystallographers and structural chemists.' Gautam R. Desiraju, University of Hyderabad `... excellent coverage ... a most useful text.' Roger Bishop, University of New South Wales, Australia