Chalcogenides: New Developments and Cutting-Edge Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 7714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coordination chemistry with sulfur, selenium, and tellurium ligands; [FeFe]-hydrogenase mimics; electrocatalytic and photocatalytic H2 evolution; metal-containing antiproliferative compounds; prebiotic chemistry
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Interests: sulfur, selenium, tellurium; synthetic chemistry; X-ray diffraction; NMR spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; computational chemistry; molecular modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chalcogen elements sulfur, selenium, and tellurium play a significant role in inorganic and organic chemistry, as well as in biochemistry. Many chalcogen compounds have assisted in understanding the relationships between the molecular and electronic structures of the compounds and correlating them with the properties observed in the bulk materials. Many sulfur, selenium, and tellurium species also find utility as versatile reagents in synthetic applications. Chalcogenides further have an impact in modern material technologies, as exemplified by the fabrication of electric conductors, semiconductors, insulators, coatings, ceramics, catalysts, nanotubes, polymers, and thin films. Organic chalcogen-containing compounds have been essential in the development of macromolecular and polymeric active materials for use in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and photovoltaic cells (OPVCs). Their electrical and optical features can be tuned and optimized for specific applications by appropriate tailoring of chalcogen-containing heterocyclic aromatics. Sulfur heterocycles and bioactive natural products are also extensively used as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyes, sensors, antioxidants, chiral pools, catalysts, ligands, and antibiotics.
In addition to synthetic advances and modern methods of characterization, there have also been improvements in computational methodologies providing the possibility to model complex molecular structures and chemical processes. This is changing the methods of designing materials with specific structures leading to new functional devices.
This Special Issue aims at collecting original contributions and comprehensive reviews on the topics covering synthesis, structural elucidation, and theoretical structural and reaction modeling, with special emphasis on the applications of chalcogenides both in inorganic, organic, and biochemistry.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weigand
Prof. Dr. Risto S. Laitinen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chalcogens
- P-block
- Syntheses
- Molecular structures
- Electronic structures
- Reactions
- Catalysis
- Materials
- Natural products
- Coordination chemistry
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