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Frontispiece: (Multi‐)Metallic Cluster Growth
Author(s) -
Weinert Bastian,
Mitzinger Stefan,
Dehnen Stefanie
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201883462
Subject(s) - cluster (spacecraft) , nanotechnology , computer science , diversity (politics) , metal , combinatorial chemistry , chemistry , chemical physics , materials science , sociology , organic chemistry , anthropology , programming language
Monitoring of metal cluster growth has been a challenge to date, owing to only a few spectroscopic handles within such molecules and the high complexity of such reactions, which still renders the formation processes a mystery in most cases. Such knowledge would greatly enhance the plannability and control of functional metal cluster syntheses, with the ultimate goal of straight forward design‐to‐preparation strategies. Consequently, many attempts have been made over the years to clarify at least some steps or, in rare cases, even entire reaction cascades within corresponding formation pathways. All results so far point towards a huge diversity of reaction mechanisms. For more information, see the Review by S. Dehnen et al. on page 8470 ff.