Nets : a tool for description and design -- Interpenetration -- Malleability of coordination polymers -- Transition metal coordination polymers -- Rare earth coordination polymers -- Organometallic networks -- Inorganic-organic hybrids -- Magnetism in coordination polymers -- Porous coordination polymers -- Acentric and chiral networks -- Reactive coordination polymers -- Other properties of coordination polymers.
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Awarded the 2009 Olle Prize! The field of coordination polymer research has undergone rapid expansion in recent years. No longer are these materials the vaguely defined 'insoluble material' at the bottom of your vessel that spell death for your reaction. They have gone from 'polymeric rubbish' to 'materials of the future'. Great leaps in the deliberate design of coordination polymers were made in the 1990s. These were allied with similar advances in related areas such as organic crystal engineering, metallosupramolecular chemistry and X-ray diffraction. No longer did we assemble things atom by.