Molecule-Based Materials: The Structural Network Approach

Book, 2005

The properties of a material depend not only on the specific atoms and molecules it contains, but also on the arrangement of these in space. Many of these three-dimensional arrangements are described as "3D-nets" or "3D-networks". Molecule-Based Materials: The Structural Network Approach is about the synthesis, description, nomenclature and analysis of such nets and the relation of the nets to the physical properties of the materials. It introduces the mathematics, and includes a short guide to programs useful for retrieving, analysing and naming nets. Complete with illustrations and examples of coordination polymer and hydrogen bonded nets, this unique easy-to-read book examines all aspects of 3D nets and will undeniably prove itself valuable to newcomers, well-seasoned students and researchers working in crystallography, inorganic or organic chemistry. Audience (Under-)Graduate students and academic or industrial researchers in organic, inorganic or materials chemistry, as well as crystallography, pharmaceutical, "electronic" and "photonic" materials, and nanoscience. Contents Chapter 1. Introduction and a short dictionary of network terminology Chapter 2. Why bother with nets? Chapter 3. What is a net? Chapter 4. Naming the nets and finding them Chapter 5. The most common 3D-nets Chapter 6. Three-connected nets Chapter 7. Four-connected nets Chapter 8. Nets with both three- and four-connected nodes Chapter 9. Nets with higher connectivity than four Chapter 10. Some mathematics related to 3D-nets Chapter 11. Interpenetration - strategies and nomenclature Chapter 12. 3D-nets as specific synthetic targets - Crystal Engineering Chapter 13. Computational tools