Coordination Polymer: Design and Synthesis
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1688
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Interests: metallocene chemistry; coordination polymers; crystal structure determination
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Dear Colleagues,
Supramolecular chemistry is currently one of the most intensively studied sub-discipline of chemistry. Within the realm of coordination chemistry, the same is true for the field of “Coordination Polymers”. A quick look into SciFindern at the beginning of 2023 reveals over 12000 entries for the concept “coordination polymer”, including over 800 review articles, nine books and 1300 patents, describing in all nearly 55000 substances. Although the “climax” of research papers was reached 10 years ago with over 1000 papers in 2013, the last years show continuously ca. 700 annual publications. This continuous interest is mainly due to the large variety of applications, ranging from organic synthesis over (bio-) medicinal and environmental chemisty to material science including nanomaterials, sensors and photocatalysis.
In most cases, the formation of coordination polymers is within the domain of solid state chemistry. Therefore, the synthesis of such compounds does not just require an appropriate choice of metals and ligands, but also the right choice of crystallization conditions—shortly “Crystal Engineering”. This present “Special Issue” has the focus on the design and synthesis of coordination polymers, and not so much on the actual applications (although, of course, the “design” implies a certain purpose of the synthesized compounds). Therefore, we invite all synthetic chemists interested in this field of coordination chemistry to contribute either a review of their own results or very recent developments in their research on this subject.
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Sünkel
Guest Editor
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