Advances in Chemical Bond and Bonding 3.0

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical bonding lies at the core of chemistry, where chemistry is defined as an autonomous science with the objective of studying, understanding, and developing bonding. Bonding also opens inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary junctions with other mathematical (including informatics), natural (physical and quantum), and life (bio-, eco-, medical, and pharma-) sciences. Nevertheless, the fundamental research on unifying chemical bonds has parallels on a different (and non-reductive) level: the great unification of forces in nature that physics advocates. Thinking along these lines, a foreseen physicochemical grand unification of forces would equally be a worthy project for humankind, increasing knowledge on the existence and betterment of life and of its expansion (given the universal nuclei synthesis or nuclei genesis, e.g., in cosmology). On the other side of chemical bond applications, various exotic chemical situations have been reported, such as sextuple bonds, nano- and bio-molecules, and carbon-based aggregates. These must be subjected to both conceptual and computational explanations, as well as to experimental analyses. The increased need for molecular designs to assess biotargets through pharmacophores, the practical demands of predictions of the acute toxicity of medicines, and the reality of addressing environmental waste compounds mandate that a special forum be opened to facilitate the discussion of these concepts.

This dedicated Special Issue on the “Advances in Chemical Bond and Bonding 3.0”, presented in an open access, molecular-oriented science format, will contribute (including in terms of knowledge and economic growth) to expanding future generations of materials and compounds and understanding and controlling chemical bonds and interactions in nano- to macro-environments.

We kindly invite you to contribute papers that expand on these and related concepts to advance the scientific understanding and control of chemical bonds for the purpose of building a better life and sustainable environment in the 21st century.

Dr. Mihai V. Putz
Guest Editor

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• atoms-in-molecules and chemical epistemology
• bio-chemical and ligand–receptor interactions
• carbon structures and bonding
• chemical bonding and nanochemistry
• chemical graph theory and chemical topology
• electronegativity and chemical reactivity
• computational and quantum chemistry
• crystallography and solid-state chemistry
• sustainable materials