Non-Covalent Interactions in Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry

Alexander S Novikov

doi:10.3390/cryst10060537

Abstract

The problem of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds is a hot topic in modern chemistry, material science, crystal engineering and related fields of knowledge. Researchers in various fields of chemistry and other disciplines (physics, crystallography, computer science, etc.) are welcome to submit their works on this topic for our Special Issue “Non-Covalent Interactions in Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry”. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight and overview modern trends and draw the attention of the scientific community to various types of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds. In this editorial, I would like to briefly highlight the main successes of our research group in the field of the fundamental study of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds over the past 5 years.

Highlights

Non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds are topical in modern chemistry, material science, crystal engineering and related fields of knowledge. Both experimental and theoretical methods are widely used for the investigation of the nature and various properties of such weak contacts in gas, liquid and solid states
Non-covalent interactions could be the driving force in the design of smart materials with valuable redox, electronic, mechanical, magnetic and optical properties, and they are promising for the manufacture of LEDs, photovoltaic cells for solar power plants, porous structures, sensors, battery cells and liquid crystals
In [19], we introduced a concept of four-center nodes: supramolecular synthons based on cyclic halogen bonding

Summary

Introduction

Issue is to highlight and overview modern trends and draw the attention of the scientific community to various types of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds. Non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds (hydrogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen, tetrel and semi-coordination bonds; agosic and anagosic interactions; stacking, anion-/cation-π interactions; metallophilic interactions, etc.) are topical in modern chemistry, material science, crystal engineering and related fields of knowledge. I would like to briefly highlight the main successes of our research group in the field of the fundamental study of non-covalent interactions in coordination and organometallic compounds over the past 5 years.

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