Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz

Charles E. Carraher, Jr.

Charles U. Pittman, Jr.

Martel Zeldin

This series provides a useful, applications-oriented forum for the next generation of macromolecules and materials. The sixth volume in this series provides useful descriptions of the transition metals and their applications, edited by high-quality team of macromolecular experts from around the world.

Transition Metal-Containing Polymers

Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements, Volume 6

Volume 9 in a scientific research series, covering macromolecules This book, Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-like Elements, presents research developments in the study of: supramolecular chemistry, supramolecular architecture and supramolecular self-assemblies. The topics addressed involve materials containing metals and metal-like elements as well as the possible applications of hybrid materials. The volume offers a broad series of coverage with conclusions and perspectives for the various areas covered.

Supramolecular and Self-Assembled Metal-Containing Materials

Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements, Volume 9

This series provides a useful, applications-oriented forum for the next generation of macromolecules and materials. Applications include non-linear optical materials, specialty magnetic materials, liquid crystals, anticancer and antiviral drugs, treatment of arthritis, antibacterial drugs, antifouling materials, treatment of certain vitamin deficiencies, electrical conductors and semiconductors, piezoelectronic materials, electrodes, UV absorption applications, super-strength materials, special lubricants and gaskets, selective catalytic and multi-site catalytic agents.

Boron-Containing Particles

Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements, Volume 8

Charles E. Carraher

Charles U. Pittman

This important work is based on the editors’ symposium at the 2005 ACS meeting in Washington, DC. The contents include an emphasis on main-group polymers, including boron. The chapters are not simply journal articles, but have real added value as the editors have reviewed the general area by placing the work into a larger perspective. This book will be required reading for scientists in a number of disciplines including chemical engineers and physics researchers.

Design and Applications

Inorganic and Organometallic Macromolecules

This book series Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-like Elements brings new concepts and developments in the titled area of research. Volume 9 focuses attention on the area of supramolecular chemistry, supramolecular architecture and supramolecular self-assemblies that involve materials containing metals and metal-like elements and the potential applications of these interesting hybrid materials.

John E. Sheats

Metal and metalloid-containing compounds exhibit a wide range ofbiological and biocidal activities, some of which have beenemployed in medicines and drugs. Polymers containing metal ormetalloid functions become a natural extension of this effort; justas organic compound drugs have been chemically bound to polymers orphysically imbibed into polymer matrices in order to provide avariety of useful advantages, the same opportunities exist forusing metal and metalloid species. This volume will cover importantbiomedical applications of organometallic compounds, includingmetal-labeled DNA on surfaces, artificial metallo-DNA, organotinmolecules as anti-cancer drugs, and much more. * Provides useful descriptions of biomedical applications for thereader to apply in his/her research into materials, polymers, andmedicine/drug development. * Edited by high-quality team of macromolecular experts from aroundthe world

Biomedical Applications

Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements, Volume 3

Charles E. Carraher Jr.

B. Currell

C.U. Pittman Jr.

J. Sheats

Research on metal-containing polymers began in the early 1960's when several workers found that vinyl ferrocene and other vinylic transition metal TI -complexes would undergo polymerization under the same conditions as conventional organic monomers to form high polymers which incorporated a potentially reactive metal as an integral part of the polymer structures. Some of these materials could act as semi conductors and possessed one or two dimensional conductivity. Thus applications in electronics could be visualized immediately. Other workers found that reactions used to make simple metal chelates could be used to prepare polymers if the ligands were designed properly. As interest in homogeneous catalysts developed in the late 60's and early 70's, several investigators began binding homogeneous catalysts onto polymers, where the advantage of homogeneous catalysis - known reaction mechanisms and the advantage of heterogeneous catalysis - simplicity and ease of recovery of catalysts could both be obtained. Indeed the polymer matrix itself often enhanced the selectivity of the catalyst. The first symposium on Organometallic Polymers, held at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in September 1977, attracted a large number of scientists interested in this field, both established investigators and newcomers. Subsequent symposia in 1977, 1979, 1983, and 1987 have seen the field mature. Hundreds of papers and patents have been published.

Inorganic and Metal-Containing Polymeric Materials

Pierre D. Harvey

Metal- and metalloid-containing macromolecules are defined as large molecules (i.e., polymers, DNA, proteins) that contain a metal or metalloid group affiliated with the molecule. This volume describes what is possible with metal-containing polymers where the metal is an essential ingredient in obtaining desired optical and electronic properties. Covering applications in nonlinear optical materials, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic cells, field-effect transistors, chemosensing devices, and biosensing devices, this indispensible guide focuses on the photochemistry and photophysics of metal-containing polymers, with chapters by leading contributors to the core advances in this field.

Martel Zeldin

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