Jean-Pierre Djukic will act as Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal Molecules on « Noncovalent Interactions, Cohesion and Reactivity in Organometallic Chemistry ». Please find here the call for contributions and manuscript submission informations. (deadline : 15 December 2021)

Dear Colleagues,

 

Non-covalent interactions (NCIs), i.e charge-charge, charge-dipole, dipole-dipole, induced dipole-charge induced dipole-charge interactions and other multipolar eletric field effects, are ubiquitous in Nature. Their physical meaning in molecular cohesion and reactivity is based on solid physical grounds since over 8 decades. Their multifacetted role in influencing structures and reactivity has long been recognized in biomolecular systems and solid state materials, and their use in the vast domain of supramolecular chemistry represents their first large scale intuitive use, which now extends to other applications, such as catalysis for instance.

 

Renewed interest in the study of NCIs has sparked quite recently in the domain of transition metal chemistry and particularly in organometallic and coordination chemistry, jointly with the emergence of new theoretical tools capable of modeling and analyzing chemical bonding beyond the conventional lewisian acception of it.

 

This new interest has instigated a host of advances in both the theoretical and experimental understanding and control of NCIs at the molecular level. The recent emphasis on the role of London dispersion force in chemical bonding and overall in “molecular or supra-molecular cohesion”, echoes the long interest of chemists for the engineering of the so-called second coordination sphere effects often put forward to design functional molecular systems and catalysts. This special issue aims at giving a wide panorama of the present state-of-the-art in this maturing inter-disciplinary field of research.

 

D^r. Jean‐Pierre Djukic

Guest Editor