The definition of Carbon Rich Compounds applied in this as in the previous volume (TCC Volume 196) of this series on the same general topic comprises carbon skeletons with a carbon to hydrogen ratio of 1:(kleiner gleich 1), which ultimately implies all-carbon compounds (i.e. carbon allotropes). The current volume covers modern methods for the coupling - mostly metal catalyzed - of subsystems consisting of double bonds, cyclopropyl groups, arenes, and metal-complexed pi-systems with acetylene and diacetylene units. The resulting structures range from macrocycles, including those with all sorts of linkers between the acetylene and diacetylene units, to conducting polymers and light-emitting materials. Wherever appropriate, chemical transformations of these intriguing compounds and materials are discussed as well.

Presents an authoritative overview of carbon rich compounds based on acetylenic structures

Essential reading for chemists and materials scientists interested in the rational design of new materials

Klappentext

Carbon Rich Compounds are defined here as carbon skeletons with a carbon-to-hydrogen ration of 1: (less than or equal 1), which includes all-carbon compounds, i.e. carbon allotrope. The current volume complements Topics in Current Chemistry Volume 196, which focussed on polycyclic aromatic compounds, by presenting an overview of the exciting recent results that have been achieved acetylene-based carbon rich structures. Leaders in the field present timely reviews on the synthesis, properties and chemistry of cyclic and macrocyclic oligoacetylenic structures, molecular scaffolding, arylene- and arylenevinylene-based oligomers and polymers, as well as carbon rich compounds from ethynylated Pi-complexes.

Inhalt
Macrocyclic Structurally Homoconjugated Oligoacetylenes: Acetylene- and Diacetylene-Expanded Cycloalkanes and Rotanes.- Cyclic and Linear Acetylenic Molecular Scaffolding.- Macrocyclic Oligo(phenylacetylenes) and Oligo(phenyldiacetylenes).- Carbon-Rich Molecular Objects from Multiply Ethynylated ?-Complexes.- Oligo- and Polyarylenes, Oligo- and Polyarylenevinylenes.