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"The present book displays the continuing broad interest in the area of Supramolecular Catalysis. It provides an excellent update to previous contributions in the field and will be highly beneficial reading for all students and researchers interested in the challenges faced in this domain of Supramolecular Chemistry."
Jean-Marie Lehn
Nobel Laureate
The construction of catalysts by supramolecular forces has recently become a powerful tool and the role of noncovalent interactions can assist in designing new tools for the construction of effective and selective catalytic systems. It is unquestionably, vastly important to understand how different noncovalent interactions can be controlled or manipulated under appropriate reaction conditions. Supramolecular catalysts have had a tremendous impact on the syntheses of both chemical commodities and fine chemicals over the last 50 years, leading to the discovery of new reactions that were previously deemed impossible. This means that supramolecular chemistry plays a predominant role in accelerating or understanding chemical reactions.
This book which addresses the above points is written by some of the leading contributors in this field and is intended for graduate students, researchers and academics working in supramolecular chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry as well as researchers with an interest in the area of catalysis. The authors give examples illustrating the growth of the field, especially with special emphasis on new results published over the last decade. They also provide an explanation of fundamentals and topical research.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword
Chapter 1 General Strategies in Modulating Reactivity within Well-Defined Supramolecular Nanospaces
Contents:
- General Strategies in Modulating Reactivity within Well-Defined Supramolecular Nanospaces (Xiao-Yu Hu, Kaiya Wang, Jacobs H Jordan, Chengyong Su and Leyong Wang)
- Supramolecular Catalysts Based on Crown Ethers and Polyethers (Zibin Zhang, Yuan-Guang Shao, Shijun Li, Juli Jiang and Leyong Wang)
- Cyclodextrins Based Supramolecular Catalysis (Frédéric Hapiot and Eric Monflier)
- Systems Based on Calixarenes for the Creation of Catalysts (Zheng-Yi Li, Tangxin Xiao, Ke Yang, Yuan Chen and Leyong Wang)
- Cucurbit[n]urils Based Supramolecular Catalysis (Fengbo Liu and Simin Liu)
- Functional Interlocked Molecules: Applications of Rotaxanes, Catenanes and Molecular Knots in Supramolecular Catalysis (Jochen Niemeyer)
- Porphyrin Metal–Organic Frameworks in Heterogeneous Supramolecular Catalysis (Li Zhang, Jiewei Liu and Cheng-Yong Su)
- Supramolecular Coordination Cages as Nano Reactors (Mei Pan, Xuezhao Li, Yu-Lin Lu, Cheng He and Cheng-Yong Su)
- Assembly of Organometallics: Application in Catalysis and Molecular Recognition (Qingshu Zheng and Tao Tu)
- Supramolecular Chiral Photochemistry (Wanhua Wu and Cheng Yang)
- Artificial Photosynthesis by MOFs: Water Splitting and CO₂ Conversion (Yuanxing Fang and Xinchen Wang)
- Water Splitting in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis (Wangyin Wang and Can Li)
- Artificial Photosynthesis at Lipid Bilayers (Andrea Pannwitz and Sylvestre Bonnet)
- Bio-Inspired Supramolecular Catalysis (Harsh Vardhan and Shengqian Ma)
Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in supramolecular chemistry, catalyst chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry.
"The present book displays the continuing broad interest in the area of Supramolecular Catalysis. It provides an excellent update to previous contributions in the field and will be highly beneficial reading for all students and researchers interested in the challenges faced in this domain of Supramolecular Chemistry."
Jean-Marie Lehn
Nobel Laureate
Leyong Wang received his PhD degree from Nanjing University, China in 2000. After his postdoctoral at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000–2002) with Professor Youliang Hu, followed by at the Université de Bourgogne, France with Dr Jean-Claude Chambron and Prof. Roger Guilard (2002–2003), and at Mainz University, Germany with Dr Voker Böhmer (2003–2004). he became a Humboldt Research Fellow in Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany affiliated with Professor John A Gladysz. In 2006, he was appointed as Professor of Organic and Materials Chemistry at Nanjing University, China. He holds numerous scientific awards and has been serving on the editorial board of six international academic journals including Chinese Chemical Letters as associate Editor, Green Syntheis and Catalysis, and Supramolecular Chemistry. He has authored or coauthored over 180 papers in international peer reviewed journals with an H-index of 41. He has also published five book chapters. His main research area is supramolecular chemistry and biomaterials.
Cheng-Yong Su is Distinguished Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University. He obtained his PhD in 1996 from Lanzhou University, China. After a Humboldt Research Fellow stay in Stuttgart University, affiliated with Prof. W Kaim in 2001–2002, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of South Carolina with Prof. H-C Zur Loye in 2002–2003. He has authored or coauthored over 400 peer reviewed papers, 8 reviews and 10 books/chapters, receiving more than 230,00 citations with an H-index of 78. His research is interdisciplinary, focusing on supramolecular coordination chemistry and metal-organic materials for gas adsorption/separation, photoluminescence and catalysis. He also serves as a co-editor of IUCrJ and is on the advisory boards of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemSystemChem and Progress in Chemistry.