Coinage-metal-based cyclic trinuclear complexes with metal–metal interactions: theories to experiments and structures to functions

J Zheng, Z Lu, K Wu, GH Ning, D Li - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Among the d10 coinage metal complexes, cyclic trinuclear complexes (CTCs) or trinuclear
metallocycles with intratrimer metal–metal interactions are fascinating and important metal …

Argentophilic interactions

H Schmidbaur, A Schier - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The decade 1990–2000 saw a growing interest in aurophilic interactions in gold chemistry.
These interactions were found to influence significantly a variety of structural and other …

Soft crystals: flexible response systems with high structural order

M Kato, H Ito, M Hasegawa… - Chemistry–A European …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A new material concept of soft crystals is proposed. Soft crystals respond to gentle stimuli
such as vapor exposure and rubbing but maintain their structural order and exhibit …

Crystal engineering: from molecule to crystal

GR Desiraju - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 - ACS Publications
How do molecules aggregate in solution, and how do these aggregates consolidate
themselves in crystals? What is the relationship between the structure of a molecule and the …

Polymerization of polar monomers mediated by main-group Lewis acid–base pairs

M Hong, J Chen, EYX Chen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

Vapochromic crystals: understanding vapochromism from the perspective of crystal engineering

E Li, K Jie, M Liu, X Sheng, W Zhu… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Vapochromic materials, which undergo colour and/or emission changes upon exposure to
certain vapours or gases, have received increasing attention recently because of their wide …

Anomalous Charge Transfer from Organic Ligands to Metal Halides in Zero‐Dimensional [(C6H5)4P]2SbCl5 Enabled by Pressure‐Induced Lone Pair‐π …

H Luo, K Bu, Y Yin, D Wang, C Shi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Low‐dimensional (low‐D) organic metal halide hybrids (OMHHs) have emerged as
fascinating candidates for optoelectronics due to their integrated properties from both …

Vapochromism in organometallic and coordination complexes: chemical sensors for volatile organic compounds

OS Wenger - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review The development of chemical sensors is a subject that continues to
fascinate chemists in academic research. Aside from the purely academic interest, there is of …

Innovative molecular design strategies in materials science following the aurophilicity concept

N Mirzadeh, SH Privér, AJ Blake, H Schmidbaur… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past decade has seen a diverse range of breakthrough inventions that are derived from
gold complexes, including the application of aurophilic interactions in the preparation of …

A briefing on aurophilicity

H Schmidbaur, A Schier - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
There is now compelling experimental evidence for the existence of specific intra-and
intermolecular bonding between seemingly closed-shell gold (I) centers (5d10) which …