Hyper-Structured Molecules II: Chemistry, Physics and Applications

Hyper-structured molecules are topologically well-defined molecules in two or three dimensions and are expected to show novel quantum effects in the molecules themselves or in molecular sequences. This book, covering the supramolecular chemistry and characterisation of hyper-structured molecules, provides an invaluable resource on the design and synthesis of topologically controlled molecules such as dendritic polymers, and on ways to handle them using techniques such as photon scanning tunnelling microscopy. The book presents a comprehensive discussion of the real application of hyper-structured molecules to organic quantum devices for molecular electronics, photonics and spinics and should be of interest to all researchers working in supramolecular chemistry and molecular electronics.

Table of Contents:
Hyper-structured molecules for organic quantum devices Hiroyuki Sasabe Programming molecules to form supramolecular materials Samuel I. Stupp, Gregory N. Tew and Craig M. Whitaker The prospect of unimolecular rectification Robert M. Metzger A synthetic approach to all-carbon molecular rods with organometallic terminals Yukiko Hayaski, Masahisa Osawa and Yasuo Wakatsuki Star-branched functional polymers by living cationic polymerisation Mitsuo Sawamoto, Shokyoku Kanaoka and Toshinobu Higashimura Dendrimer porphyrins for biomimetic applications Dong-Lin Jiang, Reiko Sadamoto, Nobuyuki Tomioka and Takuzo Aida Theoretical models for molecular spinics and the possibility of spin-mediated superconductivity in hyper-structural p-d, p-d and p-R systems Kizashi Yamaguchi Approach to hyper-structured high spin molecules Tadashi Sugawara Magnetic properties of layered organic/inorganic hybrid materials Wataru Fujita, Toshihiko Yokoyama and Kunio Awaga Construction of organized porphyrin array toward photoactive molecular systems - molecular architecture using phosphorus porphyrins Hiroshi Segawa Photon-pressure exertion on mesoscopic particles in the evanescent field Satoshi Kawata Second-order nonlinear optics of chiral thin films Martti Kauranen, Thierry Verbiest, Jeffrey J. Maki, Sven Van Elshoct and André Persoons Index