Molecular Engineering for Advanced Materials

The Self-Assembly of Redox-Active and Photo-Active Catenanes and Rotaxanes.- Advantages of the Rotaxane Framework for the Construction of Switchable Molecular Devices.- The Polyrotaxane Architecture. A New Approach to Molecular Engineering.- “Smart” Cascade Macromolecules.- Tailoring Cyclodextrins for the Construction of Large Scale Scale Molecular Assemblies.- Cation and Anion Coordination Chemistry of Redox Active Calixarene Macrocyclic Ligand Systems.- Functionalization and Application of Calixarenes.- Design Principles for Engineering Conducting Discotic Liquid Crystals.- Organic Synthesis and Materials Science.- New Aspects of Heterocyclic Annulene Chemistry.- Electrochemical Properties of Fullerenes and Fulerene Derivatives: A Possible Route to Endohedral Complexes.- Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Bis-Porphyrin-Stoppered [2]-Rotaxanes.- New Materials Based on Highly-Functionalised Tetrathiafulvalene Derivatives.- Design, Synthesis and Properties of Exotic Tetrathiafulvalenes.- Novel TTF Derivatives as Components for Conducting CT Complexes.- Tetrathiafulvalenes with Extended Conjugation.- Giant Analogues of Tetrathiafulvalene: Outcome and Prospect.- Unsymmetrically-Substituted Tetrathiafulvalenes (TTF) as Key Intermediates in the Preparation of Functionalised TTF Derivatives.- From Molecular Structures to Solid State Properties in ?-Charge Transfer Salts.- New Bimetallic Tetrathiafulvalene Building Blocks and Self-Assembled, Two-Dimensional Conductors Derived from Regioregular, Head-to-Tail Coupled Polythiophenes.- Author Index.