Advances in the Synthesis and Reactivity of Solids 1994

In recent years the chemistry and physics of solids have undergone a renaissance worldwide. Progress in this field is driven by the availability of new inorganic and molecular solids - compounds which add to our knowledge of structure and chemical bonding, and which have important practical applications in, for example, electronics, optics, catalysis and superconductivity. These new materials are available today only because of recent advances in the art of solid state synthesis and an increasing understanding of chemical reactions involving solids.;"Advances in the Synthesis and Reactivity of Solids" presents authoritative reviews of recent work on the preparation, characterization, structure and reaction chemistry of solid materials. Synthetic solid state chemistry is no longer practiced exclusively in a few specialized laboratories; indeed, new materials are today made at an increasingly rapid pace by a much wider community of chemists and physicists. This series is intended to serve both practicing solid state chemists and non-specialists by providing a balanced sampling of the best new work in this rapidly expanding area. Articles in the series review in depth research conducted in the authors' laboratories on a variety of synthetic problems: the preparation of inorganic solids with interesting structures an dproperties, new molecular materials rationally designed for specific applications, the development of novel precursors and synthetic routes to solid materials, and other topics of current interest to physical scientists who make and use solid state compounds.