Coordination Chemistry Discovery – serie

Inorganic chemistry is the basis of materials science, environmental science, condensed matter physics, biological science, and earth sciences. The severe environmental issues we face pose significant challenges to our existence as a species, and inorganic chemistry has become a basic science to address these fundamental problems.This book, translated from the original Japanese, provides a comprehensive insight into the origin of matter, the underlying quantum theory and thermodynamics and the global environment from the perspective of inorganic chemistry. It explores the relationship between inorganic chemistry and other related fields and covers the prospects and ethical aspects of inorganic chemistry considering the slogan "Leave No One Behind" of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This comprehensive guide is a roadmap for beginners and provides basic inorganic chemistry literacy for researchers in related fields, allowing them to think about a sustainable future.

Transition metal complexes as catalysts play an indispensable role in transformation of chemical substances to value-added products using less energy-consuming processes and with high selectivity and efficiency. In collaboration with the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC), the work is a translation of the original Japanese book focusing on metal complex catalysts that are effective in redox reactions and covers important reactions involving metal complex catalysts. It describes not only what reactions proceed, but also the intermediates they pass through and how the reactions proceed, including computational chemistry approaches. It allows you to gain a deeper understanding of the reaction mechanisms of metal complex catalysts. The scope of this book includes oxidative reactions performed by high-valent metal-oxo species, reductive reactions, bond activation and bond formation, and photocatalytic reactions. Topics in this book will be interest to those studying catalytic chemistry and related fields including coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, organic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and industrial chemistry.