Tomorrows Chemistry Today: Concepts in Nanoscience, Organic Materials and Environmental Chemistry

Providing a glimpse into the future, the young scientists contributing here were considered to be the most important for tomorrow′s chemistry and materials science. They present the state of the art and the perspectives in their particular fields of research, with topics ranging from new synthetic pathways and nanotechnology to green chemistry.
Clearly divided into three main areas of discussion, the first part deals with self–organization, nanoscience and nanotechnology, culminating in new approaches of the study of soft matter 3D organization. Part Two looks at organic synthesis, catalysis and materials, while the final part covers health, food, and the environment, including future perspectives for medical chemistry and photochemical transformation processes of environmental significance.
Of major interest to physical– and organic chemists, materials scientists and biochemists.


Spis treści:
Preface.
List of Contributors.
Member Societies.
Part One: Self–Organization, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
1 Self–Assembly as a Route to New Structures and Materials (Jonathan R. Nitschke).
2 Molecular Metal Oxides and Clusters as Building Blocks for Functional Nanoscale Architectures and Potential Nanosystems (Leroy Cronin).
3 Nanostructured Porous Materials: building Matter from the bottom Up (Javier Garcia–Martinez).
4 Strategies Toward Hierarchically Structured Optoelectronic ally Active Polymers (Eike Jahnke and Holger Frauenrath).
5 Mimicking Nature: Bio–inspired Models of Copper Proteins (Iryna A. Koval, Patrick Gamez and Jan Reedijk).
6 From the Past to the Future of Rotaxanes (Andreea R. Schmitzer).
7 Multiphoton Processes and Nonlinear Harmonic Generations in Lanthanide Complexes (Ga–Lai Law).
8 Light–emitting Organic Nanoaggregates from Functionalized para–Quaterphenylenes (Manuela Schiek).
9 Plant Viral Capsids as Programma ble Nanobuilding Blocks (Nicole F. Steinmetz).
10 New Calorimetric Approaches to the Study of Soft Matter 3D Organization (J. M. Nedelec and M. Baba).
Part Two: Organic Synthesis, Catalysis and Materials.
11 Naphthalenediimides as Photoactive and Electroactive Components in Supramolecular Chemistry (Sheshanath Vishwanath Bhosale).
12 Coordination Chemistry of Phosphole Ligands Substituted with Pyridyl Moieties: From Catalysis to Nonlinear Optics and Supramolecular Assemblies (Christophe Lescop and Muriel Hissler).
13 Selective Hydrogen Transfer Reactions over Supported Copper Catalysts Leading to Simple, Safe, and Clean Protocols for Organic Synthesis (Federica Zaccheria and Nicoletta Ravasio).
14 Selective Oxido–Reductive Processes by Nucleophilic Radical Addition under Mild Conditions (Cristian Gambarotti and Carlo Punta).
Part Three: Health, Food, and Environment
15 Speeding Up Discovery Chemistry: New Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry (Matteo Colombo and Ilaria Peretto).
16 Overview of Protein–Tannin Interactions (Elisabete Barros de Carvalho, Victor Armando Pereira de Freitas and Nuno Filipe da Cruz Batista Mateus).
17 Photochemical Transformation Processes of Environmental Significance (Davide Vione).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Bruno Pignataro, born in Bologna in 1972, is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Palermo. He received his degree in chemistry in 1995 from the University of Catania and his PhD in materials science five years later. He has helped establish a wide network of international collaborations and organized more than 10 meetings at national and international level, including coordinating the Young Chemists Group of the Italian Chemical Society and chairing the first editions of the European Young Chemist Award. He is a referee for several leading chemistry and materials journals, has more than 70 scientific publications and some 90 conference c ommunications to his name, along with several invited lectures. Professor Pignataro′s research interests focus on the related fields of the physical chemistry of molecular surfaces and soft nanotechnologies.

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Providing a glimpse into the future, the young scientists contributing here were considered to be the most important for tomorrow′s chemistry and materials science. They present the state of the art and the perspectives in their particular fields of research, with topics ranging from new synthetic pathways and nanotechnology to green chemistry.
Clearly divided into three main areas of discussion, the first part deals with self–organization, nanoscience and nanotechnology, culminating in new approaches of the study of soft matter 3D organization. Part Two looks at organic synthesis, catalysis and materials, while the final part covers health, food, and the environment, including future perspectives for medical chemistry and photochemical transformation processes of environmental significance.
Of major interest to physical– and organic chemists, materials scientists and biochemists.