Issue 22, 2022

The coordination chemistry of oxide and nanocarbon materials

Abstract

Understanding how a ligand affects the steric and electronic properties of a metal is the cornerstone of the inorganic chemistry enterprise. What happens when the ligand is an extended surface? This question is central to the design and implementation of state-of-the-art functional materials containing transition metals. This perspective will describe how these two very different sets of extended surfaces can form well-defined coordination complexes with metals. In the Green formalism, functionalities on oxide surfaces react with inorganics to form species that contain X-type or LX-type interactions between the metal and the oxide. Carbon surfaces are neutral L-type ligands; this perspective focuses on carbons that donate six electrons to a metal. The nature of this interaction depends on the curvature, and thereby orbital overlap, between the metal and the extended π-system from the nanocarbon.

Graphical abstract: The coordination chemistry of oxide and nanocarbon materials

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
14 Febr. 2022
Accepted
12 Maijs 2022
First published
12 Maijs 2022

Dalton Trans., 2022,51, 8557-8570

Author version available

The coordination chemistry of oxide and nanocarbon materials

E. Bekyarova and M. P. Conley, Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 8557 DOI: 10.1039/D2DT00459C

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