The Chemistry of the Fullerenes - Hardcover

Although synthetic fullerenes have only been around for a few years, there are thousands of scientific articles dealing with them. This is the first monograph in the field and thus represents a vital source of information summarizing the most important and fundamental aspects of the organic and organometallic chemistry of the fullerenes. The book is logically arranged so that information is easy to retrieve, and the style lends itself to effortless reading and to learning more about the chemical properties of a family of molecules that constitute new building blocks for novel architectures in the ever-expanding universe of synthetic chemistry. Belongs on the shelves of university libraries as well as those of chemists interested in the art and science of structure and property manipulation by synthesis.

Andreas Hirsch was born in Esslingen, Germany, in 1960. He studied chemistry in Tubingen, Germany, where he obtained his PhD in 1990 under Michael Hanack. During the course of his doctoral research, his interest in the material-science aspects of organic chemistry arose. As a consequence, he subsequently moved to the Institute of Polymers and Organic Solids in Santa Barbara, where he did postdoctoral research with Fred Wudl. Since 1991 he has been working on his qualification as university lecturer at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Tubinge. His current fields of interest are the fullerenes, new alkynes and aromatics, including the investigation of their synthetic potential, biological activity, and properties as matrials.