Frontiers in crystal engineering

List of Contributors. Foreword. 1. Applications of Crystal Engineering Strategies in Solvent-free Reactions: Toward a Supramolecular Green Chemistry. 1 Introduction. 1 Mechanochemical preparation of Hydrogen-Bonded Adducts. 1 Mechanically induced formation of covalent bonds. 1 The solvent-free chemistry of the zwitterion. 1 Concluding remarks. 1 Acknowledgements. References. 2. Crystal Engineering of Pharmaceutical Co-crystals. 1 Introduction. 2 What is the origin of polymorphism and is it prevalent in co-crystals?. 3 What is the pharmaceutical co-crystal?. 4 Conclusions. 5 Acknowledgements. References. 3. Template-controlled Solid-state Synthesis: Toward a General Form of Covalent Capture in Molecular Solids. 1 Introduction. 2 Controlling reactivity using linear templates. 3 Template-controlled solid-state reactivity. 4 Target-oriented organic synthesis in the organic state. 5 Other linear templates. 6 Summary and outlook. References. 4. Interplay of Non-covalent Bonds: Effect of Crystal Structure on Molecular Structure. 1 Introduction. 2 Second-sphere coordination. 3 Soft coordination environments. 4 Speciation. 5 Molecular conformation. 6 Conclusions. References. 5. Crystal Engineering of Halogenated Heteroaromatic Clathrate Systems. 1 Introduction. 2 Aromatic edge-edge C-H...N dimers. 3 Heteroatom-1,3-peri interactions. 4 Molecular pen structures. 5 Halogenated edge-edge interactions. 6 Pi-halogen dimer (PHD) interactions. 7 Molecular bricks, spheres and grids. 8 Conclusions. 9 Acknowledgements. References. 6. Steric Control over Supramolecular Aggregation: A Design Element in Crystal Engineering? 1 Introduction. 2 Diorganotin carboxylates. 3 Triorganotin carboxylates. 4 Binary zinc xanthates. 5 Bipyridine adducts of zinc dithiophosphates. 6 Binary mercury dithiocarbamates. 7 Binary bismuth xanthates. 8 Conclusions and Outlook. 9 Acknowledgements. References. 7. Incorporating Molecular Hosts into Network Structures. 1 Introduction. 2 Hydrogen-bonded structures with CTV. 3 Coordination polymers. 4 Extended-arm CTV derivatives and their coordination polymers. 5 Conclusions. 6 Acknowledgements. References. 8. Interpenetrating Networks. 1 Introduction. 2 Notation. 3 1-D nets. 4 2-D nets. 5 3-D nets. 6 Unusual interpenetration. 7 Consequences of interpenetration. 8 Self-penetration. 9 Entangled but not interpenetrating. 10 Conclusions. References. 9. Architecture and Functional Engineering Based on Paddlewheel Dinuclear Tetracarboxylate Building Blocks. 1 Introduction. 2 Synthetic strategy. 3 Architecture engineering based on preorganized building blocks. 4 Conductive and magnetic properties based on preorganized building blocks. 5 Porous properties based on preorganized and in situ building blocks. 6 Conclusion and outlook. References. 10. Supramolecular Interactions in Directing and Sustaining Coordination Molecular Architectures. 1 Introduction. 2 Molecular architectures assembled by hydrogen-bonding interactions. 3 Molecular architectures assembled VIA ... Interactions. 4 Metallophilic interactions. 5 Concluding remarks and outlooks. 6 Acknowledgements. References. 11. The Structure-directing Influence of Hydrogen Bonding in Coordination Polymers. 1 Introduction. 2 A novel cadmium cyanide network. 3 Dihydroxybenzoquinone and Chloranilic acid derivatives of Lanthanides. 4 A stable zinc saccharate network. 5 Anionic metal-carbonate networks. 6 Conclusions. References. 12. Hydrogen-bonded Coordination Polymeric Structures. 1 Introduction. 2 Solid-state supramolecular transformation of hydrogen-bonded 3-D network to 3-D coordination polymetric network structures by thermal dehydration. 3 Interconvertible solid-state supramolecular transformation. 4 Solid-state transformation of a helical coordination polymetric structure to a 3-D coordination network structure by thermal dehydration. 5 Influence of chiral centers on the helicity of the coordination polymers. 6 Consequences of C=O... interactions. 7 Supramolecular isomerism. 8 Starlike channels and hexagonal diamondoid topology. 9 Hydrogen-bonded helical water molecules inside a staircase 1-D coordination polymer. 10 Hydrogen-bonded polyrotaxane-like structure containing cyclic (H2O)4 in [Zn(OAc)2(m-bpe)].2H2O. 11 Summary. 12 Acknowledgements. References. Index.