Late Transition Metal Complexes: Featuring Ligand Design and Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Late transition metal complexes have gained immense importance in various research areas including catalysis, organometallic chemistry, material sciences, polymers, and biological and medicinal chemistry. The growing interest in late transition metals (groups 8–11) has inspired chemists to develop different synthetic strategies involving ligands that could alter the properties of these complexes. We have known about late transition metal complexes of alkyl compounds for insertion polymerization reactions since the 1970s. For a very long time, late transition metals have marked their entry into the advanced field of industrially important catalysts. Pertaining to the properties of these metals, such as functional-group tolerance and less oxophilicity, there is a scope for the isolation of a large number of industrially important compounds based on these metals.

In this Special Issue, we wish to cover the recent developments in designing ligands that tune the properties of the late transition metal complexes by hosting a combination of original research articles and short critical reviews.

Dr. Mitu Sharma
Prof. Dr. Hans Riesen
Guest Editors

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