Modern Cyclophane Chemistry

Born in 1940, Henning Hopf is Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. After studying chemistry in Goettingen and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he gained his doctorate 1967, he qualified as a professor in 1972 at the University of Karlsruhe. Three years later he was offered a chair at the University of Wuerzburg and from there followed an offer of a professorship at Braunschweig in 1979. His main areas of research concern hydrocarbon chemistry (alkines, allenes, cumulenes, aromats, cyclophanes, polyolefines, etc.) and mechanistic investigations of high-temperature reactions. Rolf Gleiter is professor of chemistry at the Universitat Heidelberg. He studied chemistry and finished his doctoral thesis under the supervision of F. Effenberger in Stuttgart in 1964. From 1965 - 1968 he did postdoctoral work in the US, one year with P. v. R. Schleyer at Princeton and two years with R. Hoffmann at Cornell. He completed his habilitation with E. Heilbronner in Basel in 1972. In 1973 he moved as full professor to TU Darmstadt. In 1979 he took his present position. R. Gleiter is interested in intra- and intermolecular bonding properties by synthesizing model systems and investigation of their interactions by physical measurements supported by quantum chemical calculations.

a) Synthesis and Reactions Cyclophynes Heteraphanes Highly Strained Cyclophanes Superphanes Carbon-Bridged Ferrocenophanes Endohedral Metalcomplexes of Cyclophanes Intramolecular Reactions in Cyclophanes Reactive Intermediates from Cyclophanes b) Structures X-Ray Crystal Structures of Porphyrinophanes as Model Compounds for Photoinduced Electron Transfer Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectra of Cyclophanes UV/Vis Spectra of Cyclophanes Electronic Circular Dichroism of Cyclophanes Fully Conjugated Beltenes (Beltlike and Tubular Aromatics) Molecular Electrochemistry of Cyclophanes NMR Spectra of Cyclophanes c) Applications Strained Heteroatom-Bridged Metallocenophanes Cyclophanes as Templates in Stereoselective Synthesis Vapor-Based Polymerization of Functionalized [2,2] Paracyclophanes: A Unique Approach towards Surface-Engineered Microenvironments From Cyclophanes to Molecular Machines Molecular Recognition Studies with Cyclophane Receptors in Aqueous Solutions