Simulating concepts in chemistry

Readers can find out about modern concepts in chemistry such as self-assembly, nanochemistry, and molecular machines. Moreover, many spectacular advances have been achieved from the fusion of chemistry with life and materials science - a development which is illustrated by contributions on enzyme mimics, molecular wires, and chemical sensors. Further, the essayists write about new nanomaterials, efficient methods in synthesis, and big biomolecules - indeed, many of the topics that have dominated some of the recent discussions in chemistry.

This outstanding text makes use of a special layout to reflect the editors' aim of presenting concepts in the form of essays. Thus, the book is not merely another source of knowledge but is intended to stimulate readers to develop their own ideas and concepts.

This format should help to make the book interesting to a wide range of scientists. Students of chemistry will benefit from the different style of presentation of their subject, while researchers in industry and academia will welcome the exciting way in which some of the most challenging concepts in modern chemistry are presented.

Contents

• Lewis acid catalysis in aqueous media
  
• Superficial fluids for organics synthesis
  
• Fluorous techniques for the synthesis of organic molecules : a unified strategy for reaction and separation
  
• Domino reaction in organic synthesis. An approach to efficiency, elegance, ecological benefit, economic advantage and preservation of our resources in chemical transformations
  
• Combinatorial libraries for drug development
  
• Theozymes and catalyst design
  
• Enantioselective catalysis using sterically and electroniaclly unsymetrical ligands
  
• Asymetrics two-center catalysis
  
• Asymetrtics phase transfer catalysis
  
• Asymetric catalysis in target-oriented synthesis
  
• From fullerenes to novel carbon allotropes : exciting prospects for organics synthesis
  
• Dendritic architectures
  
• Chemical encapsulation in self-assembling capsules
  
• Slippage and constrictive binding
  
• Crystal engeneering with soft and topologically adaptable molecular host frameworks
  
• Molecular wires and devices
  
• Molecular-level devices and machines
  
• Electron and energy transfer
  
• The supramolecular synthon in crystal engeneering
  
• Luminescent logic and sensing
  
• Nanochemistry - architecture at the mesoscale
  
• Enzyme mimics
  
• Asymetric two-enzyme inhibitors
  
• Organic synthesis and cell biology