Design of Molecular Materials

Jacques Simon and Pierre Bassoul are the authors of Design of Molecular Materials: Supramolecular Engineering, published by Wiley.

• Preface. Introduction: Systemic Chemistry. Molecular Assemblies. A Few Notions of Symmetry. Supramolecular Engineering: Symmetry Aspects. Symmetry and Physicochemical Properties: The Curie Principle. Interactions and Organization in Molecular Media. Molecular Semiconductors: Properties and Applications. Molecular Dielectrics. Industrial Applications of Molecular Materials. Appendix 1: Main Symmetry Point Groups: Notation and Symbols. Appendix 2: Tables of Characters of the Main Point Symmetry Groups. Appendix 3: Group-Subgroup Relationships for the Crystallographic and Infinite Groups. Appendix 4: Two-Dimensional (Monocolor) Space Groups. Appendix 5: Isohedral Tilings. Appendix 6: Isohedral Tilings Derived from the Topological Class [3^6]. Appendix 7: Isohedral Tilings Corresponding to a Given Site Symmetry. Appendix 8: Piezoelectrical and Nonlinear Optical Tensor Coefficients. Appendix 9: Irreducible Representations of the Group K_h. Appendix 10: The Main Dyes and Pigments. Index.

"[The authors] create a correlation between the structure of single molecules and the physical and chemical properties of the resulting materials." (SciTech Book News Vol. 25, No. 2 June 2001)