Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials

Crystal engineering is an interdisciplinary area that cuts across the traditional subdivisions of chemistry. Fuelled by our increasingly precise understanding of the chemistry and properties of supramolecular systems, interest in the potential of the field has increased rapidly.
The topics discussed in the 28 contributions in this book provide a state-of-the-art description of the field and offer new research ideas that, if pursued, will serve to strengthen the field at the interface between supramolecular chemistry and materials science.

1 On the Concept of a Single Crystal in Biomineralization.- 2 INTRODUCTION TO PACKING PATTERNS AND PACKING ENERGETICS OF CRYSTALLINE SELF-ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES - Predicting Crystal Structures Using Kitaigorodskii’s Aufbau Principle.- 3 Molecule-Based Magnets.- 4 Structure Determination by Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering.- 5 Theory of Intermolecular Interactions.- 6 Hydrogen-Bond Assisted Assembly of Organic and Organic-Inorganic Solids.- 7 Secondary Bonding as a Potential Design Tool for Crystal Engineering.- 8 Molecular Packing in Liquids, Solutions, and Crystals: Acetic Acid as a Test Case.- 9 CRYSTAL DESIGN From Molecular to Application Properties.- 10 Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Crystalline Inclusion Confounds.- 11 An Approach to the Crystal Engineering of Coordination Networks.- 12 How to Look at Bonds in Extended Solids.- 13 Diversity and Certainty - Database Research in Crystal Engineering.- 14 The Development and Application of Knowledge-Based Approaches to Molecular Design.- 15 Organic Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics.- 16 Toward Crystal Design in Organic Conductors and Superconductors.- 17 Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Structures of Rigid Organic Molecules.- 18 Rational Design of Polar Solids.- 19 Energy Minimization as a Tool for Crystal Structure Determination of Industrial Pigments.- 20 THE PREDICTION AND PRODUCTION OF POLARITY IN CRYSTALLINE SUPRAMOLECULAR MATERIALS - A General Principle of Polarity Formation.- 21 MOLECULAR MAGNETIC CLUSTERS: A BRIDGE BETWEEN MOLECULES AND CLASSICAL MAGNETS.- 22 MODELLING HYDROGEN-BONDED STRUCTURES AT THERMODYNAMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS.- 23 Discrete and Infinite Host Frameworks Based Upon Resorcin[4]arenes By Design.- 24 Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials.- 25 Nmr andCrystallinity of Nanostructured Materials.- 26 Molecular-Ionic Halogenoantimonates and Bismuthates - A Rich Family of Crystals Showing Attractive Properties.- 27 Thermochromism of Organic Crystals. A Crystallographic Study on N-Salicylideneanilines.- 28 Crystal Engineering: Functionality and Aesthetics.