In recent
years, chemists and materials scientists have taken advantage of organic-inorganic
coordination and hydrogen bonding techniques to engineering specific types
of intermolecular interactions. Crystals can be used as scaffolding to array
moieties of electronic interest into known relative geometries. Techniques
such as those of Margaret Etter (Acc. Chem. Res. 1990, 23,
120-126) have shown the possibilities for understanding and controlling packing
of molecules within crystals. Our group is using such techniques to work on
some of the following problems:
- Use of hydrogen bonds
as molecular "Velcro" to hold molecules in known relative geometries,
with exchangable attached groups of electronic interest
- Use of inorganic ions
to coordinate organic ligands with exchangable groups of electronic interest,
building molecular wires or networks
- Control of benzene herringbone
packing and related pi-stacking interactions to achieve longer range control
of relative molecular positions in pi-conjugated molecules
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