Molecular Discovery review

A review of what has come to be called molecular electronics (Mirkin and Ratner 1992) includes many striking discoveries, such as a device based on azoben .ene (Liu et al. 1990) that undergoes a stereochemical transition, trans-to-cis, when irradiated with ultraviolet light, but reverts to trans when irradiated with visible light. The investigators in Japan found that L-B films of their molecules can be used for a... 

Application of coordination compounds in medicine, materials chemistry, and as catalysts are mentioned and are cross-referenced to a fuller discussion in Volume 9. Comment is made on application of complexes in nanotechnology, and on the molecular modeling of complexes. The material cannot be totally comprehensive because of space limitations, but is selected in such a way to give the most effective review of discoveries and new interpretations. 

There continues to be interest in small-molecular scaffolds as good starting points for drug discovery [50]. Indoles [51], 2-oxindoles [52], 2-arylben-zothiazoles [53], rhodanines [54], quinolones [55], (3-D-glucose [56], and y-pyrones [57] have all recently been reviewed as "privileged" scaffolds. 

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