Born in 1940, Henning Hopf is Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. After studying chemistry in Goettingen and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he gained his doctorate 1967, he qualified as a professor in 1972 at the University of Karlsruhe. Three years later he was offered a chair at the University of Wuerzburg and from there followed an offer of a professorship at Braunschweig in 1979. Hismain areas of research concern hydrocarbon chemistry (alkines, allenes, cumulenes, aromats, cyclophanes, polyolefines, etc.) and mechanistic investigations of high-temperature reactions. Rolf Gleiter is professor of chemistry at the Universitat Heidelberg. He studied chemistry and finished his doctoral thesis under the supervision of F. Effenberger in Stuttgart in 1964. From 1965 - 1968 he did postdoctoral work in the US, one year with P. v. R. Schleyer at Princeton and two years with R. Hoffmann at Cornell. He completed his habilitation with E. Heilbronner in Basel in 1972. In 1973 he moved as full professor to TU Darmstadt. In 1979 he took his present position. R. Gleiter is interested in intra- and intermolecular bonding properties by synthesizing model systems and investigation of their interactions by physical measurements supported by quantum chemical calculations.

"Overall, it was a pleasant experience to read and review this excellent, exciting, yet rounded monograph about cyclophane chemistry, which should be bought by interested graduate students and university teachers. The book should be in every library. Both the editors, as well as the authors of the individual chapters, did an excellent job in the creation of this opus."Angewandte Chemie I.E.

• a) Synthesis and ReactionsCyclophynesHeteraphanesHighly Strained CyclophanesSuperphanesCarbon-Bridged FerrocenophanesEndohedral Metalcomplexes of CyclophanesIntramolecular Reactions in CyclophanesReactive Intermediates from Cyclophanesb) StructuresX-Ray Crystal Structures of Porphyrinophanes as Model Compounds for Photoinduced Electron TransferUltraviolet Photoelectron Spectra of CyclophanesUV/Vis Spectra of CyclophanesElectronic Circular Dichroism of CyclophanesFully Conjugated Beltenes (Beltlike and Tubular Aromatics)Molecular Electrochemistry of CyclophanesNMR Spectra of Cyclophanesc) ApplicationsStrained Heteroatom-Bridged MetallocenophanesCyclophanes as Templates in Stereoselective SynthesisVapor-Based Polymerization of Functionalized [2,2] Paracyclophanes: A Unique Approach towards Surface-Engineered MicroenvironmentsFrom Cyclophanes to Molecular MachinesMolecular Recognition Studies with Cyclophane Receptors in Aqueous Solutions