Synthesis and Crystal Structure Studies of Metal Complexes
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 1185
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Have you ever wondered where science would be today if three great scientific achievements from the beginning of the 20th century were erased from the map of discoveries? In 1895, W.C. Roentgen discovered X-rays. Twenty years later, Laue noticed that these rays, passing through a crystal, are able to bend (scattered and diffracted), while Bragg and Wulff described the phenomenon of X-ray deflection on a crystal lattice. The common thread for the described achievements is three Nobel Prizes and the rapid development of crystallography and X-ray structural analysis. Thanks to X-ray structural analysis as a powerful scientific tool, it is possible to determine the crystal and molecular structure for each crystal, describe the coordination geometry of the metal center, its intermolecular interactions, etc. This, in turn, is a strong foundation for exploring the properties of compounds in every possible direction. Therefore, we eagerly invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue of Molecules.
Dr. Anna Świtlicka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- synthesis
- crystal structure
- physical properties
- X-ray diffraction
- coordination complexes
- d- and f-block metal atoms
- functional materials
- applications
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