Editorial (Hot Topic: The Importance of Organic Chemistry in Designing Novel and Enhanced Functional Materials)

Abstract

Organic chemistry established itself long ago as a stand-alone discipline and counts with a large number of scientific subareas, showing its multidisciplinary character. After a necessary evolution time of the individual subareas, organic chemists bearing different backgrounds started to interact fruitfully by exploiting complementary knowledge thus establishing the first interdisciplinary investigations across the different sub-disciplines. These interactions resulted in a synergetic collaboration among chemists, and also helped in facing greater challenges by those who were able to incorporate different backgrounds. Due to these intensified number of interdisciplinary works a greater and deeper knowledge on the studied subjects is achieved, pushing the limits much further to face every complex system and design unprecedented topics.