Inverse Coordination Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 9050
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to inverse coordination complexes, i.e. metal compounds displaying an arrangement of acceptor and donor sites opposite to that occurring in traditional coordination complexes.
The inverse coordination complexes consist of a nonmetallic coordination center, surrounded by a number of metal atoms which can be further connected (or not) by internal bridging linkers and peripheral (or terminal) ligands. As coordination centers may serve isolated non-metal atoms (oxygen, other chalcogens, halogens, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony), or centroligands such as polyhomoatomic molecules or anions, (e.g. dinitrogen, azide, polyphosphanes, polyarsanes), organic heteroatom molecules (e.g. nitrogen- or oxygen- heterocycles, exodonor crown ethers, etc.) or inorganic oxoanions (e.g. carbonate, sulfate, phosphate, etc.). Sometimes, the coordination centers are described as polyatomic bridging ligands, but they deserve recognition for their structure directing role, more important than just bridging.
The novel inverse coordination concept reveals a new face of coordination chemistry, illustrated for compounds with chalcogens, halogens, and nitrogen as coordination centers and was promoted in a series of extensive reviews [I. Haiduc, Coord. Chem. Rev., 338, 1 (2017); 348, 71 (2017); J. Coord. Chem., 71, 3139 (2018); 72, 35 (2019); 72, 2127 (2019); 72, 2805 (2019)); 73, 1619 (2020); I. Haiduc, E.R.T. Tiekink. Inverse Coordination. A Novel Chemical Concept, Sunway University Press, Selangor, Malaysia (2020)] which reveal an astonishing diversity of compositions and topologies.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers who have published before original research on inverse coordination complexes as well as new authors, to contribute to the consolidation of this novel chapter of coordination chemistry with publication of relevant work.
Prof. Dr. Ionel Haiduc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- inverse coordination
- centroligands
- coordination center
- oxygen, chalcogens
- halogens
- nitrogen
- heterocycle
- phosphorus
- arsenic
- inorganic oxoanions
- crown ethers
