Inorganic Metal-to-Ligand Clusters

Dear Colleagues,

Metal-to-ligand clusters represent one of the most intriguing areas of inorganic chemistry, because they encompass polynuclear species of a very diverse nature, such as polyoxometalates, metal–organic polyhedra, and metal-chalcogenide/halide clusters. Their rich solution equilibria, together with a remarkable structural variety that allows for systematic compositional variations, have resulted in molecular entities with a wide range of properties (e.g., acidity, outstanding redox behavior, magnetism, catalytic, and/or biological activity) arising from the combination of both inorganic metal cations and non-metallic ligands. In some specific cases, the possibility of generating vacant metallic sites in a controlled way allows for their use as ligands towards additional electrophilic moieties or organic functions (e.g., transition-metal cations, rare earths, and p-block organoderivatives), thus paving the way for providing the clusters with tailored additional properties.

This Special Issue aims to emphasize the latest advances in the chemistry of such inorganic clusters by covering topics from fundamental aspects (synthesis, reactivity, spectroscopy, structure, and solution studies) to functional materials that incorporate these molecular units (organic polymers, functional surfaces, inorganic matrixes, and nanoparticles), as well as their potential applications in fields like catalysis, photo- and electrochemistry, electronics, optics, bio-medicine, energy storage, sorption, and environmental remediation.

Dr. Beñat Artetxe
Dr. Santiago Reinoso
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.