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Featured Reviews in Organometallic Chemistry, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organometallic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 4093

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Dr. Michal Szostak

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Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 73 Warren St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Interests: amide bonds; N-heterocyclic carbenes; Pd-NHCs; C–N activation; C–H activation; C–O activation; amide bond activation; ester activation; cross-coupling; catalysis; decarbonylative couplings; Suzuki–Miyaura; reductions; lanthanides; reductive couplings; radical chemistry; synthetic methodology; natural products
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Dear Colleagues,

Organometallic chemistry plays a central role in various fields of science at the interface of organic and inorganic materials and main-group metal chemistry. The bonding between metal and carbon atoms continues to serve as an inspiration for discovering, characterizing, and applying new organometallic complexes and processes of significant importance to general research. In this Special Issue, we invite featured reviews that provide a survey of recent advances in the field. Submissions of comprehensive reviews, shorter targeted reviews, perspectives, and spotlight reviews on any aspect of recent organometallic chemistry research are welcome.

Dr. Michal Szostak
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Keywords

  • organometallic chemistry
  • complexes
  • metals
  • metal–carbon bonding
  • main group metals
  • transition metals
  • lanthanides
  • catalysis
  • ligands
  • metal chemistry
  • phosphines
  • N-heterocyclic carbenes
  • bipyridines
  • homogeneous catalysis
  • cross coupling
  • bond activation
  • ancillary ligands
  • photoredox catalysis
  • asymmetric catalysis
  • crystallography
  • spectroscopy

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Mercury Monohalides as Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes
by Matteo Busato, Jesús Castro, Domenico Piccolo and Marco Bortoluzzi
Molecules 2025, 30(1), 145; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30010145 - 2 Jan 2025
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The main categories of transition metal–mercury heterometallic compounds are briefly summarized. The attention is focused on complexes and clusters where the {Hg-Y} fragment, where Y represents a halide atom, interacts with transition metals. Most of the structurally characterized derivatives are organometallic compounds where [...] Read more.
The main categories of transition metal–mercury heterometallic compounds are briefly summarized. The attention is focused on complexes and clusters where the {Hg-Y} fragment, where Y represents a halide atom, interacts with transition metals. Most of the structurally characterized derivatives are organometallic compounds where the transition metals belong to the Groups 6, 8, 9 and 10. More than one {Hg-Y} group can be present in the same compound, interacting with the same or with different transition metals. The main synthetic strategies are discussed, and structural data of representative compounds are reported. According to the isolobality with hydrogen, {Hg-Y} can form from one to three M-{Hg-Y} bonds, but further interactions can be present, such as mercurophilic and Hg···halide contacts. The formal oxidation state of mercury is sometimes ambiguous and thus {Hg-Y} can be considered as a Lewis acid or base on varying the transition metal fragment. Density functional theory calculations on selected Group 6 and Group 9 model compounds are provided in order to shed light on this aspect. Full article
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Host–Guest Metal–Organic Frameworks-Based Long-Afterglow Luminescence Materials
by Zhi-Chen Zhang, Zhi-Gang Gu and Jian Zhang
Molecules 2024, 29(13), 2989; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29132989 - 23 Jun 2024
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Long-afterglow materials have a broad of applications in optoelectronic devices, sensors, medicine and other fields due to their excellent luminescent properties. The host-guest long-afterglow MOFs material combines the advantages of multi-component characteristics and the stability of MOFs, which improves its luminous performance and [...] Read more.
Long-afterglow materials have a broad of applications in optoelectronic devices, sensors, medicine and other fields due to their excellent luminescent properties. The host-guest long-afterglow MOFs material combines the advantages of multi-component characteristics and the stability of MOFs, which improves its luminous performance and expands its other properties. This review introduces the classification, synthesis and application of host-guest MOFs materials with long afterglow. Due to their rigid frames and multi-channel characteristics, MOFs can load common guest materials including rare earth metals, organic dyes, carbon dots, etc. The synthesis methods of loading guest materials into MOFs include solvothermal synthesis, post-encapsulation, post-modification, etc. Those long-afterglow host-guest MOFs have a wide range of applications in the fields of sensors, information security and biological imaging. Full article
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