Author: Franco Cataldo
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: applications, properties, synthesis, polyynes
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2005-08-29
List price: $152.95
ISBN-10: 157444512X
ISBN-13: 9781574445121

Polyynes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications compiles information found scattered throughout the literature in inorganic, organic, and polymer chemistry into one cohesive volume.In addition to being a precursor of fullerenes, polyynes are one of the key precursors in the formation of soot and carbon dust, or elemental carbon in the galaxy, and their properties can be linked to interstellar band phenomena and other astrophysical behavior. More than 1,000 organic molecules produced by plants, fungi, and other microorganisms are also classified as polyynes, playing a biological role in natur