ISBN 9783843905862

978-3-8439-0586-2, Reihe Organische Chemie

Nicolas Jenny
Synthesis of New Functional Molecules for Molecular Electronics

253 Seiten, Dissertation Universität Basel (2012), Softcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Molecular electronics is an interdisciplinary field where chemists, physicists and biologists come together to investigate electronic phenomena at the molecular level. From the chemists point of view the design and synthesis of new model compounds which have a controllable function is very much in the foreground. In this work we focus on the synthetic aspect towards such new compounds especially on the incorporation of ferrocene into macrocycles which can act as molecular wires. The fascinating property of ferrocene is its switchable redox-state which has a direct influence on the molecular energy levels and thus the electronic properties including conductivity.