Advances in Chemical Bond and Bonding 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical bonding is at the core of chemistry. It actually defines chemistry as an autonomous science, with a certain objective to study, understand, and develop it; it also opens inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary junctions with other mathematical (including informatics), natural (physical and quantum), and life (bio-, eco-, medical, and pharma-) sciences alike. Nevertheless, the fundamental research on unifying the chemical bonds recognized parallels on a different (and non-reductive) level: the great unification of forces in nature that physics advocates. In this line, a foreseen physicochemical grand unification of forces would equally be a worthy project for humankind, increasing the knowledge on the existence and betterment of life and of its expansion (given the universal nuclei-synthesis or nuclei-genesis, for instance, in cosmology). On the other side of chemical bond applications, various exotic chemical situations have been reported, such as sextuple bonds, nano- and bio-molecules, and carbon-based aggregates, that need both conceptual and computational explanations as well as experimental analyses. The increased need for molecular designs to assess biotargets through pharmacophores, the practical demands of predictions of the acute toxicity of medicines, and environmental waste compounds; all these actual realities of chemistry, in both its principles and applications, deserve a special forum.

In this generous yet challenging context of the reality and manifesting reality of chemical bonding, this dedicated Topical Collection on the “Advances in Chemical Bond and Bonding” in an open access molecular-oriented science forum is an academic, scholarly, and ultimately social (including knowledge and economic growth by innovation) contribution to the present for future generations of materials and compounds, while having understood and controlled the chemical bonds and interactions in nano- to macro-environments.

We kindly invite you to contribute papers expanding on these and allied concepts for the scientific understanding and control of chemical bonds for a better life and a sustainable environment in the 21st century.

Dr. Mihai V. Putz
Guest Editor

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