Recent Advances in Modern Inorganic Chemistry: Featured Reviews

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Chemistry is entitled 'Featured Reviews in Inorganic Chemistry' and brings to the fore modern topics that are at the cutting edge of the discipline. Over the last number of decades, inorganic chemistry has matured, taking traditional synthetic and structural themes to a higher level. Modern synthetic approaches such as high and low temperature syntheses, hydrothermal techniques, chemical vapor deposition, and microwave syntheses have broadened the range of accessible compounds. The developments of metal–organic frameworks and of nanomaterials have captured the imagination of the inorganic chemist with a multitude of innovative applications. Inorganic coordination compounds complement organic materials in many areas, for example in sensing, emissive materials, and redox-active materials, and metal coordination compounds are at the heart of a plethora of catalytic processes.

This issue is open to reviews in all fields of inorganic chemistry, from synthesis and structure to theory and applications, and from discrete molecules to one-, two-, and three-dimensional assemblies.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Multitopic ligands in 2- and 3-dimensional assemblies;
• Dimetallic paddle-wheel motifs in crystal engineering;
• Sensing applications of coordination polymers;
• Polyoxometallates: structures and applications;
• Polyoxometallates: building blocks for new materials;
• Halogen bonds in inorganic crystals;
• Heterometallic metal-metal bonds;
• Advances in lanthanoid metal coordination compounds;
• Scorpionate ligands;
• Heavier main group metals.

Prof. Dr. Catherine Housecroft
Guest Editor

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