Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

This Volume is based on the Lectures presented at the Meeting "Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium", wh ich was held in Pavia, Italy, during the period 7-10 October, 1999. The Meeting involved the participation of scientists from German and ltalian Universities of the 'Coimbra Group'. The 'Coimbra Group', wh ich was founded in 1987, gathers the most ancient and prestigious European Universities, with the aim to promote initiatives in both research and teaching and to provide guidelines for the progress and development of the University system. German and Italian Universities within the Coimbra Group propose every year a theme for scientific discussion, which originates a Meeting to be held in a German or Italian University. The Meeting in Pavia was the fifth of the series and followed those of Bologna (1995), Jena (1996), Siena (1997), Heidelberg (1998). Each Meeting is centred on a topic from either humanistic or natural sciences and consists in aseries of lectures presented by distinguished scientists from the six participanting Universities. For the Pavia Meeting, the Steering Committee chose Chemistry as the topic and gathered researchers with experience in almost all fields of chemistry. In particular, during the Meeting, lectures were presented on many up-to-date subjects of chemistry, including: materials science, superconductors, supramolecular chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, fullerenes, liquid crystals, photoinduced electron transfer, etc. The different topics were covered by distinguished and renown researchers of the various fields.

The particular nature of the book which originates from lectures presented at a symposium gathering leading scientists from all fields of chemistry, makes it unique, providing an overview on the lines of development of chemical research in the next decade Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

This book consists of 15 chapters, written by authoritative specialists, on some of the most intriguing and promising topics of modern chemistry. The authors describe the lines along which chemical research will develop in the next decade, using a plain language well understandable even by non-specialists. The book originated from the lectures presented on the occasion of a meeting held in Pavia, Italy, "Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium" by distinguished scientists from the Universities of Bologna, Heidelberg, Jena, Padua, Pavia and Siena.

Inhalt
Bottom-up Approach to Nanotechnology: Molecular-Level Devices.- From Theory and Organometallic Model Chemistry to Catalysis: A New Class of Extremely Efficient, Single Site Homogeneous Ruthenium ROMP Catalysts.- Enforced Coordination Geometries Preorganization, Catalysis and Beyond.- Supramolecular Functions of Designed Transition Metal Ion Complexes.- Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Perspectives in Organic Synthesis.- Bioinspired Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic [N42-] and Open Chain [N2O22-] Schiff Base Ligands A Link Between Porphyrins and Salicylaldimines.- Temperature and Solvent Effects on Facial Diastereoselectivity.- Biological Performance of Materials.- Oxide Superconductors: A Chemist's View.- Molecular Switches Based on the [NiII(cyclam)]2+ Fragment.- Molecular Conformations in Organic Monolayers Affect Their Ability to Resist Protein Adsorption.- Electrochemical and Structural Aspects of Metallofullerenes.- Polyoxometalates and Coordination Polymers.- Modelling Interpretation of the Kinetics of Metabolic Processes.- Computer Simulation and Molecular Design of Model Liquid Crystals.- Contributors.