Metallic and Molecular Interactions in Nanometer Layers, Pores and Particles

Professor Dr Jurgen Fuhrhop is at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Freie Universitõt Berlin, Germany. He has written six books on Bioorganische Chemie (1983), Organic Synthesis (1994, 2003), Chemie f³r Mediziner (1994), Membranes and Molecular Assemblies (1995), Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Natural Products and their Model Compounds (2000), Sieben Molek³le (2009) as well as more than 200 scientific papers and managed a Sonderforschungsbereich on 'Vectorial Membrane Processes'. Over the course of 35 years, he and his 126 co-workers have contributed to the development of useful models for single steps in biological photosynthesis. Typical scientific subjects were the reactivity and assembly of porphyrins and bolaamphiphiles, spherical and planar monolayer lipid membranes (MLMs), chiral bilayer effects in micellar fibers, long-distance heterodimers and most recently, yoctowells and the sorting of molecules within them. The overall keywords from this research are reversible, noncovalent synthesis or synkinesis of photo- and redox-active systems. Dr Tianyu Wang is at the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He completed his PhD degree at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science in 2001 with Professor Jinshi Ma where he was working on porphyrin synthesis. He then carried out postdoctoral research on porphyrin polymers and yoctowells made of bolaamphiphiles in the laboratory of Professor Fuhrhop at the Free University of Berlin. He has since returned to the Chinese Academy of Science where he is currently working in nanochemistry.

This book describes new developments in the nanochemistry of almost all elements of the periodic system, primarily for the period from 2006-2008. The main benefit of this book is the actualization of the interest in the elements of the periodic system. Important qualities of ultrathin assemblies, which are not common knowledge to chemists, including magnetism, luminescence, conductivity, thermoelectricity and density functional theory are explained in an introductory chapter. Carbon yoctowells and iron nanoparticles are covered in separate chapters. Other elements are discussed mostly in connection with interesting new nanocrystal and nanowire phenomena and the packing of molecules and atoms within yoctowells, containers with the volume of a few cubic nanometres. The book is written from the unique viewpoint of interesting interactions and properties which are not found in bulk materials, for example:- * silver metal nanocrystals which luminesce * glucose which becomes water-insoluble in yoctowells without any chemical reaction * the ballistic transport of electrons in thin carbon tubes without warming and their expansion and destructive power in slightly broader ones * the contraction of polymers in water upon warming from 36-40¿C * the endless luminescence of metal sulphides

Chapter 1: Atoms, Molecules, Electrons, Light and Heat in Nanometre Confinement; Chapter 2: Organic Carbon; Chapter 3: Main Group Elements; Chapter 4: Iron; Chapter 5: Transition Metals; Subject Index