Selenium and Tellurium-Centred Metal Complexes
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Coordination Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 383
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The electronic properties of selenium and tellurium often engender unique structural properties and reactivity to heavy chalcogen-containing species, compared with lighter oxygen and sulfur congeners. This is evident in the field of coordination chemistry, where electron-rich and chemically soft selenium and tellurium-centred ligands—either monodentate or featuring chalcogens as part of a multidentate platform—are receiving increasing attention. While not as sigma-donating as the popular phosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands, they can influence the properties of complexes in other ways, such as promoting hemilability and secondary bonding interactions. Heavy chalcogen-centred complexes have found applications as precursors to metal chalcogenides as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for organic transformations. Selenium- and tellurium-containing ligands are certainly on the rise, yet compared to more established ligand classes this area of research is still in its infancy. This Special Issue will highlight new discoveries of the coordination chemistry of selenium- and tellurium-containing ligands to draw attention to this exciting yet underrepresented class of compounds.
Dr. Jamie S. Ritch
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ligands containing selenium and tellurium
- coordination compounds
- metal complex reactivity
- ligand design
- structural chemistry
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