Date of Award
Spring 2007
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Chemistry
First Advisor
Rathore, Rajendra
Second Advisor
Gardinier, James
Third Advisor
Steinmetz, Mark G.
Abstract
Among the various o- and "formula" complexes of silver cations with organic ligands, those derived from arene donors have the desired structural diversity for the construction of organometallic (solid-state) devices as electrical conductors, photoactive switches, chemical sensors, etc. This possibility stems in large part from the active synthetic interest in polycyclic hydrocarbons that bear two or more aromatic groups in interesting arrays, including diarylalkanes (-alkenes and -alkynes), cyclophanes, tryptycenes, triangulanes, deltaphanes, cylindrophanes, etc. The structural rigidity of the molecular frameworks of various macromolecular receptors for the exploration of metal ion-aromatic donor-acceptor complexes is highly sought after...