Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Bottom-up Approach to Nanotechnology: Molecular-Level Devices

   • Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni

   Pages 1-21

3. From Theory and Organometallic Model Chemistry to Catalysis: A New Class of Extremely Efficient, Single Site Homogeneous Ruthenium ROMP Catalysts

   • Martin A. O. Volland, S. Michael Hansen, Peter Hofmann

   Pages 23-47

4. Enforced Coordination Geometries — Preorganization, Catalysis and Beyond

   • Peter Comba

   Pages 49-65

5. Supramolecular Functions of Designed Transition Metal Ion Complexes

   • Paolo Scrimin, Paolo Tecilla, Umberto Tonellato

   Pages 67-82

6. Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Perspectives in Organic Synthesis

   • Angelo Albini, Maurizio Fagnoni, Mariella Mella

   Pages 83-101

7. “Bioinspired” Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic [N4 2-] and Open Chain [N2O2 2-] Schiff Base Ligands — a Link between Porphyrins and Salicylaldimines

   • Ernst-G. Jäger

   Pages 103-138

8. Temperature and Solvent effects on Facial Diastereoselectivity

   • Gianfranco Cainelli, Daria Giacomini, Paola Galletti, Paolo Orioli

   Pages 139-160

9. Biological Performance of Materials

   • Rolando Barbucci, Stefania Lamponi, Agnese Magnani

   Pages 161-183

10. Oxide superconductors: a Chemist’s View

    • Giorgio Spinolo, Paolo Ghigna, Umberto Anselmi Tamburini, Giorgio Flor

    Pages 185-205

11. Molecular Switches Based on the [NiII(cyclam)]2+ Fragment

    • Valeria Amendola, Luigi Fabbrizzi, Maurizio Licchelli, Piersandro Pallavicini, Donata Sacchi

    Pages 207-226

12. Molecular Conformations in Organic Monolayers Affect Their Ability to Resist Protein Adsorption

    • M. Grunze, A. Pertsin

    Pages 227-246

13. Electrochemical and Structural Aspects of Metallofullerenes

    • Piero Zanello

    Pages 247-278

14. Polyoxometalates and Coordination Polymers

    • Christian Robl

    Pages 279-303

15. Modelling Interpretation of the Kinetics of Metabolic Processes

    • S. Bastianoni, C. Bonechi, A. Gastaldelli, S. Martini, C. Rossi

    Pages 305-328

16. Computer Simulation and Molecular Design of Model Liquid Crystals

    • Claudio Zannoni

    Pages 329-342

17. Back Matter

    Pages 343-343

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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.

• Biomaterialien
• Chemie allgemein
• Flüssigkeitskristalle
• Molekulare Schaltsysteme
• Photoinduzierter Elektronentransfer
• Supraleiter
• fullerenes

• Department of General Chemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi

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