Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry that studies the structures, properties and reactions of (bio)inorganic, organometallic, coordination, main group, transition metal, or solid state compounds.
Inorganic chemists are involved in several industries, e.g. from the computing industry, water treatment, energy, coatings, cosmetics and medications. The research area develops a number of products that are utilized in these different industries – e.g. chlorine which is used to treat water to make it safe for consumption, titanium dioxide which is a component of pigment powders used in makeup, copper used in the development of computing devices, and cisplatin which is a widely used chemotherapy medication.

 Potential topics within this collection include but are not limited to:

• Bioinorganic chemistry
• Cluster compounds
• Coordination chemistry: transition metal compounds & complexes
• Inorganic compounds, metals and alloys
• Main group compounds
• Metallodrugs
• Metalloenzymes
• Nanomaterials based on coordination chemistry (metal-organic frameworks, coordination polymers)
• Organometallic chemistry
• Quantitative studies of structure and thermodynamics
• Solid state phenomena
• Stereochemistry
• Structure-property analysis of inorganic compounds
• Supramolecular coordination compounds
• Synthesis, kinetics and mechanisms of inorganic reactions
• Theoretical & computational studies

Collection advisors: Marcel Swart (University of Girona, Spain)