Carbon Rich Compounds II, Macrocyclic Oligoacetylenes and Other Linearly Conjugated SystemsAuthor: Prof. Dr Armin de Meijere Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-65301-1 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49451-0Table of Contents:Macrocyclic Structurally Homoconjugated Oligoacetylenes: Acetylene- and Diacetylene-Expanded Cycloalkanes and Rotanes Cyclic and Linear Acetylenic Molecular Scaffolding Macrocyclic Oligo(phenylacetylenes) and Oligo(phenyldiacetylenes) Carbon-Rich Molecular Objects from Multiply Ethynylated π-Complexes Oligo- and Polyarylenes, Oligo- and Polyarylenevinylenes, With contributions by numerous experts, Macrocyclic Structurally Homoconjugated Oligoacetylenes: Acetylene- and Diacetylene-Expanded Cycloalkanes and Rotanes -- Cyclic and Linear Acetylenic Molecular Scaffolding -- Macrocyclic Oligo(phenylacetylenes) and Oligo(phenyldiacetylenes) -- Carbon-Rich Molecular Objects from Multiply Ethynylated ?-Complexes -- Oligo- and Polyarylenes, Oligo- and Polyarylenevinylenes, The definition of Carbon Rich Compounds applied in this as in the previous volume (TCC Volume 196) of this series on the same general topic comprises carbon skeletons with a carbon to hydrogen ratio of 1:(kleiner gleich 1), which ultimately implies all-carbon compounds (i.e. carbon allotropes). The current volume covers modern methods for the coupling - mostly metal catalyzed - of subsystems consisting of double bonds, cyclopropyl groups, arenes, and metal-complexed pi-systems with acetylene and diacetylene units. The resulting structures range from macrocycles, including those with all sorts of linkers between the acetylene and diacetylene units, to conducting polymers and light-emitting materials. Wherever appropriate, chemical transformations of these intriguing compounds and materials are discussed as well