
Container Molecules & Their Guests
Royal Society of Chemistry (Publisher)
Published on 10. August 1994
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-0-85186-972-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume covers the evolution of host-guest complexation chemistry in the minds of Nobel Prize-winner Donald Cram and his co-workers at UCLA, over the period from 1970-1994. It deals with the fundamental principles and objectives that govern this rapidly developing subject and illustrates the emergence of a new field of biomimetic chemistry. The book demonstrates how a number of techniques, such as molecular modelling, synthesis, crystal structure, NMR solution structure and mass spectral structure determinations can be combined to develop a new branch of organic chemistry. It discusses the chemistry of completely new families of complexes - the carceplexes, hemicarceplexes and velcraplexes - and reviews the uses of the interiors of hemicarceplexes as a new phase for carrying out chemical reactions and for protecting unstable species. The volume illustrates how complexation and decomplexation rates are measured to provide free energies of binding, discusses new phenomena such as constrictive binding, and shows how solvophobic forces drive complexation in a variety of organic solvents.
It also covers catalysis through complexation and chiral recognition in catalysis, both secondary themes of this volume.
It also covers catalysis through complexation and chiral recognition in catalysis, both secondary themes of this volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85186-972-8 (9780851869728)
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Persons
Author
University of California at Los Angeles
University of California at Los Angeles
Series Editor
Northwestern University
Content
Contexts, conceptions, corands and coraplexes; spherands, spheraplexes and their relatives; chiral recognition in complexation; partial enzyme mimics; cavitands; vases, kites, velcrands and velcraplexes; carcerands and carceplexes; hemicarcerands and constrictive binding; varieties of hemicarcerands; reactions of complexes hosts, of incarcerated guests and hosts protection of guests from self-destruction.