The Encapsulation Phenomenon - Yan Voloshin Irina Belaya Roland Krämer Gebunden

This fundamental book presents the most comprehensive summary of the current state of the art in the chemistry of cage compounds. It introduces different ways of how ions and molecules can be encapsulated by three-dimensional caging ligands to form molecular and polymeric species: covalent supramolecular and coordination capsules. The authors introduce their classification reactivity and selected practical applications. Because encapsulation can isolate caged ions and molecules from external factors the encapsulated species can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties. The resultin g specific reactivity and selectivity can open up a range of applications including chemical separation recognition chiral separation catalysis applications as sensors or probes as molecular or supramolecular devices or molecular carriers (cargo).A particularly strong emphasis in this book is on the summary and review of the synthesis of various types of cage compounds. Readers will find over 850 literature references summarized and clearly represented in over 600 schemes and illustrations. The book is structured by the types of caging ligands (covalent supramolecular or coordination capsules). The authors further arranged the chapters by ligand classes and types of encapsulated species (neutral molecules anions or cations). Readers will hence find an exhaustive reference resource and summary of the current state of research into encapsulated species nowadays almost a separated realm of modern chemistry.