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Organic, physical, and materials photochemistry, Vol. 6
Vacuum 61 (2001) 85}87
Book Reviews Organic, physical, and materials photochemistry, Vol. 6 V. Ramamurthy and S. Kirk (Eds.); Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 2000, 356 pp., ISBN-08247-0404-5 In this volume of the series it provides an overview of scienti"c advances in the areas of organic, physical, and materials photochemistry. The contributions contained herein represent the breadth and diversity of the photochemical sciences at the dawn of the new millenium. Although the detailed aspects of these chapters di!er, they share the common theme of examining the chemical and physical processes in molecular and supramolecular systems induced by the fundamental event of light absorption. Within this volume, 13 active chemists working in the broad areas of organic, physical, and materials chemistry have summarized and critically evaluated the most important recent advances in their areas of expertise. Chapter I (D.W. Brousmiche, A.G. Briggs, and P. Wan; Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) provides an overview of recent advances in their area of photochemistry of hydroxyaromatic compounds. This review, written by one of the leading groups in the area of molecular organic photochemistry, gives a concise and authoritative description of hydroxyaromatic photochemistry. Chapters 2 (A.G. Griesbeck and Maren Fiege; Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne, KoK ln, Germany) and 3 (Dietrich DoK pp; Institut fuK r Synthesechemie, Gerhard-MercatorUniversitaK t Duisburg, Duisburg) provide comprehensive overviews of organic photochemical transformations that a!ord cyclic products. They are written with a mechanistic #air; however, the reactions described are of paramount signi"cance to the "eld of synthetic organic chemistry.
Chapter 4 (Michele Maggini; Departimento di Chimica Organica, Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy and Dirk M. Guldi; Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN), Photo- and Electroactive Fulleropyrrolidines, provides an encompassing summary of the emerging "eld of fulleropyrrolidines-functionalized derivatives of the fullerenes, the very important class of carbon allotropes. This chapter describes the synthesis and photophysical characterization of a wide variety of supramolecular systems that are constructed by azomethine ylide cycloaddition to buckminsterfullerene (C ). This chapter is a nice follow-up to Chapter 9 of Vol. 1 of this series, also describing the photo-chemistry and physics of fullerene materials. Chapter 5 (Hans van Willigen; University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), covers Applications of Time-Resolved EPR in Studies of Photochemical Reactions, providing a useful primer and overview of the EPR techniques to the study of free-radical intermediates. This covers the basic principles of the technique, and then considers example applications to systems of interest to organic and organometallic chemists. It should be a valuable resource to photochemists. Chapter 6 (Daniel E. Falvey; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland), Photochemical Generation and Studies of Nitrenium Ions, provide important organic molecular reactive intermediates based on electron-de"cient nitrogen. Falvey provides a comprehensive overview of this area, providing the reader with an insight into methods of generation and reactivity to be expected of nitrenium ions. Finally, Chapters 7 and 8 describe work being carried out by scienti"c leaders in the area of materials and polymer photochemistry. In Chapter 7 (Catherine J. Murphy; Department of Chemistry
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and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina), Photophysical Properties of Inorganic Nanoparticle}DNA Assemblies. Murphy has authored a highly informative chapter that describes the properties of supramolecular assemblies produced by combining nucleic acids and inorganic nanoparticles. This emerging area is of interest not only from the fundamental standpoint but also because there are a number of applications of the nanoparticle}DNA assemblies to important problems in sensing biologically signi"cant molecules. The "nal chapter 8 (Xin Lu and Mitchell Winnik; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Luminescence Quenching by Oxygen in Polymer Films, gives an overview of the fundamental properties and applications of polymer-based sensors for dioxygen. These interesting materials, which are based on the photochemical quenching of luminescent molecular excited states
by O , have very interesting properties and are "nding widespread applications in the "elds of engineering and biology. Lu and Winnik provide a commanding discussion of the fundamentals of O quenching in polymers, and then give examples of a number of important applications for the polymer-based sensors. Finally, one should point out that the chapters in this volume will be of valuable advantage to both scientists and graduate students active in the areas of molecular and supramolecular photochemistry. Certainly, each chapter provides a wealth of information, and the volume should "nd a place on the shelves of all scientists interested in the vast "eld of molecular and supramolecular photochemistry. W. Steckelmacher 177, Rusper Road, Ixeld, Crawley, Sussex RH11 OHT, UK
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Supramolecular polymers Alberto Ci!erri (Ed.); Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000, 668pp., ISBN 0-8247-0252-2 The book is arranged: with 15 Chapters: in 5 Parts; with 28 Contributers. The editor Alberto Ciferri is a Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa, Italy, as well as a visiting professor in the chemistry Department at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1975-present). He is the author of over 180 original papers and books, as well as several patents in the areas of natural and synthetic "bers, rubber elasticity, rheology and polymer engineering, textiles, interactions between salts and macro-molecules, polyelectrolytes, conformational changes in biopolymers, connective tissue, membranes, liquid crystals, micelles, and supramolecular assemblies. Dr. Ciferri received the D.Sc. degree in 1953, in physical chemistry from the University of Rome, Italy. The book includes a useful general introduction to supramolecular interactions and assembly processes in:
Part I: General Formalism and Theoretical Approaches; with three chapters; including the general introduction as mentioned, followed by two theoretical chapters detailing liquid crystalline phases and micellar-like aggregation, which are two important driving forces in supramolecular polymerization (pp. 21}146). Part II: Linear, Planar, and Three-Dimensional Reversible Self-Assemblies; with another four chapters, dealing: not only with main-chain assemblies of hydrogen-bonded repeating units, but also planar organization of S-layer proteins, micellar and related three-dimensional structures of block copolymers which may be described as a result of supramolecular polymerization (pp. 147}321). Part III: Assemblies Stabilized by Covalent Bonds; covering in another three chapters; the subjects: polymers with intertwined superstructures and interlocked structures; supramolecular assemblies, followed by self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and Nanostructures (pp. 323}470). Part IV: Engineered Planar Assemblies; covered in three more chapters, dealing with: "lms based on surfactants and polymers; supramolecular
Book Reviews Organic, physical, and materials photochemistry, Vol. 6 V. Ramamurthy and S. Kirk (Eds.); Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 2000, 356 pp., ISBN-08247-0404-5 In this volume of the series it provides an overview of scienti"c advances in the areas of organic, physical, and materials photochemistry. The contributions contained herein represent the breadth and diversity of the photochemical sciences at the dawn of the new millenium. Although the detailed aspects of these chapters di!er, they share the common theme of examining the chemical and physical processes in molecular and supramolecular systems induced by the fundamental event of light absorption. Within this volume, 13 active chemists working in the broad areas of organic, physical, and materials chemistry have summarized and critically evaluated the most important recent advances in their areas of expertise. Chapter I (D.W. Brousmiche, A.G. Briggs, and P. Wan; Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) provides an overview of recent advances in their area of photochemistry of hydroxyaromatic compounds. This review, written by one of the leading groups in the area of molecular organic photochemistry, gives a concise and authoritative description of hydroxyaromatic photochemistry. Chapters 2 (A.G. Griesbeck and Maren Fiege; Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne, KoK ln, Germany) and 3 (Dietrich DoK pp; Institut fuK r Synthesechemie, Gerhard-MercatorUniversitaK t Duisburg, Duisburg) provide comprehensive overviews of organic photochemical transformations that a!ord cyclic products. They are written with a mechanistic #air; however, the reactions described are of paramount signi"cance to the "eld of synthetic organic chemistry.
Chapter 4 (Michele Maggini; Departimento di Chimica Organica, Universita di Padova, Padova, Italy and Dirk M. Guldi; Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN), Photo- and Electroactive Fulleropyrrolidines, provides an encompassing summary of the emerging "eld of fulleropyrrolidines-functionalized derivatives of the fullerenes, the very important class of carbon allotropes. This chapter describes the synthesis and photophysical characterization of a wide variety of supramolecular systems that are constructed by azomethine ylide cycloaddition to buckminsterfullerene (C ). This chapter is a nice follow-up to Chapter 9 of Vol. 1 of this series, also describing the photo-chemistry and physics of fullerene materials. Chapter 5 (Hans van Willigen; University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), covers Applications of Time-Resolved EPR in Studies of Photochemical Reactions, providing a useful primer and overview of the EPR techniques to the study of free-radical intermediates. This covers the basic principles of the technique, and then considers example applications to systems of interest to organic and organometallic chemists. It should be a valuable resource to photochemists. Chapter 6 (Daniel E. Falvey; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland), Photochemical Generation and Studies of Nitrenium Ions, provide important organic molecular reactive intermediates based on electron-de"cient nitrogen. Falvey provides a comprehensive overview of this area, providing the reader with an insight into methods of generation and reactivity to be expected of nitrenium ions. Finally, Chapters 7 and 8 describe work being carried out by scienti"c leaders in the area of materials and polymer photochemistry. In Chapter 7 (Catherine J. Murphy; Department of Chemistry
0042-207X/01/$ - see front matter 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 0 4 2 - 2 0 7 X ( 0 0 ) 0 0 4 4 5 - 0
86
Book reviews / Vacuum 61 (2001) 85}87
and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina), Photophysical Properties of Inorganic Nanoparticle}DNA Assemblies. Murphy has authored a highly informative chapter that describes the properties of supramolecular assemblies produced by combining nucleic acids and inorganic nanoparticles. This emerging area is of interest not only from the fundamental standpoint but also because there are a number of applications of the nanoparticle}DNA assemblies to important problems in sensing biologically signi"cant molecules. The "nal chapter 8 (Xin Lu and Mitchell Winnik; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Luminescence Quenching by Oxygen in Polymer Films, gives an overview of the fundamental properties and applications of polymer-based sensors for dioxygen. These interesting materials, which are based on the photochemical quenching of luminescent molecular excited states
by O , have very interesting properties and are "nding widespread applications in the "elds of engineering and biology. Lu and Winnik provide a commanding discussion of the fundamentals of O quenching in polymers, and then give examples of a number of important applications for the polymer-based sensors. Finally, one should point out that the chapters in this volume will be of valuable advantage to both scientists and graduate students active in the areas of molecular and supramolecular photochemistry. Certainly, each chapter provides a wealth of information, and the volume should "nd a place on the shelves of all scientists interested in the vast "eld of molecular and supramolecular photochemistry. W. Steckelmacher 177, Rusper Road, Ixeld, Crawley, Sussex RH11 OHT, UK
PII: S 0 0 4 2 - 2 0 7 X ( 0 0 ) 0 0 4 4 5 - 0
Supramolecular polymers Alberto Ci!erri (Ed.); Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000, 668pp., ISBN 0-8247-0252-2 The book is arranged: with 15 Chapters: in 5 Parts; with 28 Contributers. The editor Alberto Ciferri is a Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa, Italy, as well as a visiting professor in the chemistry Department at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1975-present). He is the author of over 180 original papers and books, as well as several patents in the areas of natural and synthetic "bers, rubber elasticity, rheology and polymer engineering, textiles, interactions between salts and macro-molecules, polyelectrolytes, conformational changes in biopolymers, connective tissue, membranes, liquid crystals, micelles, and supramolecular assemblies. Dr. Ciferri received the D.Sc. degree in 1953, in physical chemistry from the University of Rome, Italy. The book includes a useful general introduction to supramolecular interactions and assembly processes in:
Part I: General Formalism and Theoretical Approaches; with three chapters; including the general introduction as mentioned, followed by two theoretical chapters detailing liquid crystalline phases and micellar-like aggregation, which are two important driving forces in supramolecular polymerization (pp. 21}146). Part II: Linear, Planar, and Three-Dimensional Reversible Self-Assemblies; with another four chapters, dealing: not only with main-chain assemblies of hydrogen-bonded repeating units, but also planar organization of S-layer proteins, micellar and related three-dimensional structures of block copolymers which may be described as a result of supramolecular polymerization (pp. 147}321). Part III: Assemblies Stabilized by Covalent Bonds; covering in another three chapters; the subjects: polymers with intertwined superstructures and interlocked structures; supramolecular assemblies, followed by self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and Nanostructures (pp. 323}470). Part IV: Engineered Planar Assemblies; covered in three more chapters, dealing with: "lms based on surfactants and polymers; supramolecular