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New modern technologies require new materials. During the past decade, the movement towards nanodimensions in many areas of technology aroused a huge interest in nanostructurized materials. The present article reviews recent works dealing with electrochemistry-related aspects of nanostructurized conducting polymers. Electrochemical synthesis and some properties of nanostructurized conducting polymers, and nanocomposites derived from conducting polymers and metals, carbon, and inorganic and organic materials are considered. Some potential areas for electrochemistry-related applications of nanocomposites are highlighted, including batteries, supercapacitors, energy conversion systems, corrosion protection, and sensors.
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The synthesis of chiral methanocyclocta[b]indoles, the fused structures obtained from enantiomeric bicyclo[3.3.1]nonanones via Fisher indolization reaction, is reported. The starting optically active bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-2,6-dione (1) was obtained by a chiral HPLC enantiomer separation on a swollen microcrystalline triacetylcellulose column and by the enzymatic resolution of the racemic dione. The circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the chiral structures 4, 5, and 7 were recorded, and the absolute configuration for the indole compounds was assigned. The theoretical calculations of the CD spectrum of diindole 4 reproduce the (1)B(b) couplet at 229 nm but predict wrong signs for the (1)L(a) and (1)L(b) bands using standard polarization directions. The CD spectrum of indole ketone 5 is reproduced correctly.
