Transition Metals in Supramolecular Chemistry

Supramolecular photochemistry and photophysics. Energy conversion and information-processing devices based on transition metal complexes.- Transition metal redox active ligand systems for recognising cationic and anionic guest species.- Ligand design for enhanced molecular organization — selectivity and specific sequencing in multiple receptor ligands, and orderly molecular entanglements.- Metal-ions: a self-assembly motif in supramolecular oligomers.- Biomedical targeting: a role for supramolecular chemistry.- Redox chemistry of metal ion complexes: preparation of new materials.- pH and redox switches based on metal centres.- Schiff base macrocycles and metallo-biosite modelling.- Self-assembly of mono- and dinuclear metal complexes; oxidation catalysis and metalloenzyme models.- Artificial porphyrins containing cyclopropane units functioning as electron shuttles.- Homo- and heterobinuclear metal complexes with bismacrocyclic ligands.- Ferrocene as a building block for supramolecular chemistry systems.- Macrocyclic polyamine complexes beyond metalloenzyme models.- Towards molecular wires and switches: exploiting coordination chemistry for non-linear optics and molecular electronics.- Molecular interactions between metalloproteins involved in electron transfer processes: tetraheme cytochrome c3 and flavodoxin. NMR and molecular modeling studies.- Supramolecular models of metallo-proteins.- The role of macrocyclic receptors in organization of metal centres.- Metallomacrocycles and -clefts: receptors for neutral molecules and anions.- Chiral recognition by functionalized cyclodextrin metal complexes.- Transition metal-directed threading and knotting processes.- Expanded porphyrins. Receptors for cationic, anionic and neutral substrates.- Following the self-assemblyprocess in solution.- Author Index.