Supramolecular chemistry self-organization

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Control over the self-assembly of molecular building blocks into well-defined architectures at surfaces represents one of the most important challenges of supramolecular chemistry. Self-assembled 2D monolayers formed by physisorp-tion of organic molecules have attracted a great deal of interest in view of their potential applications to molecular electronics, sensing via molecular and chiral recognition, and the formation of 2D polymers [76, 77]. In particular, 2D porous... 

Analytical chemistry having an interdisciplinary character cannot set aside the attractive power and advances of supramolecular chemistry - the chemistry beyond the molecule or the chemistry of molecular assemblies and of intermolecular bonds as defined by Jean-Marie Lehn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1987. Recognition, reactivity, and transport, as well as self-assembly, self-organization and self-replication are the basic functional features of supramolecular species and chemistry. 

Sauvage, J. P. and Hosseine, M. W., Eds., Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, Volume 9 Templating, Self-Assembly, and Self-Organization, Pergamon, Oxford, 1999. 

Molecular programming points to a molecular information science, molecular informatics and semiochemistry (see Section 8.5) involving information and signal processing and communication at the molecular and supramolecular levels (see also Section 2.1). The design of molecular information dependent, instructed and functional self-organizing systems reveals new horizons in supramolecular chemistry. 

The results presented above illustrate how combining the design of NLO active molecules with the manipulation of selective intermolecular interactions may produce novel NLO materials. Bringing together two basic features of supramolecular chemistry -molecular recognition and self-organization- with the optical properties of the components, opens ways towards the design of supramolecular photonic devices. 

Lehn, J.-M., Toward complex matter Supramolecular chemistry and self-organization , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2002, 99, 4763-4768. 

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