Novel Ligand Design in Coordination Compounds
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 16609
Special Issue Editor
Interests: coordination compounds; computational chemistry; DFT calculations; molecular modeling; crystal engineering; intra- and intermolecular interactions; metal–ligand interactions; metal–metal interactions; non-covalent interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coordination complexes, formed from a metal cation bound to neutral or anionic organic or inorganic ligands, are known to exhibit great potential in various electronic, photophysical, magnetic, medicinal, and catalytic applications. Even though the metal plays its role, it is the ligands that enrich the functionality and properties of the coordination compounds. It has been shown in many experimental and computational studies that even with very subtle structural changes in the ligands, it is possible to drastically affect the coordination modes and therefore the properties of the complexes. Furthermore, different structural or electronic features of the ligands may alter the weak interactions between the complexes and lead to various crystalline states, which can be utilized in crystal engineering.
This Special Issue aims to increase our knowledge of recent progress in ligand design, and to show how this information has been exploited in producing new complexes and functional materials from coordination compounds. I therefore invite all researchers working in the field of coordination compounds to share their interesting experimental and/or computational results with the chemical community.
Dr. Pipsa Hirva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coordination compounds
- ligand design
- ligand synthesis
- electronic properties
- catalytic properties
- structural properties
- photophysical properties
- metal–ligand interactions
- non-covalent interactions
- computational chemistry
- crystal engineering
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