1. Introduction
Published Online: 22 FEB 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9780470980200.ch1
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Macrocycles: Construction, Chemistry and Nanotechnology Applications
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How to Cite
Davis, F. and Higson, S. (2011) Introduction, in Macrocycles: Construction, Chemistry and Nanotechnology Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470980200.ch1
Publication History
- Published Online: 22 FEB 2011
- Published Print: 25 MAR 2011
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780470714621
Online ISBN: 9780470980200
- Summary
- Chapter
- References
Keywords:
- simple ring compounds;
- simple ring carbons, simple cyclopropane ring - the smallest, to huge cyclic structures;
- aliphatic hydrocarbon ring compounds - cyclopropane, the smallest, and cyclobutane, cyclopentane, cyclohexane;
- multiple ring systems - linked in bicyclohexyl or fused in decalin;
- three-dimensional aliphatic carbon structures;
- platonic and other strained hydrocarbons;
- annulenes, properties not keeping - with their predicted structures, as benzene;
- ‘cyclohexatriene’ and ‘dimethyl cyclohexatriene’ isomer structures;
- multi-ring aromatic structures - fused-aromatic-ring-system compounds in natural substances;
- porpyrins and phthalocanines - phthalocyanines, synthetic analogues of tetrabenzoporphyrins, methine bridges replaced by nitrogen atoms
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Simple Ring Compounds
Three-Dimensional Aliphatic Carbon Structures
Annulenes
Multi-Ring Aromatic Structures
Porpyrins and Phthalocanines
Conclusions
References