Themed collection Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 10th Anniversary Collection

This review summarizes characterization techniques, modification methods and recent mechanistic (oxygen participation roles) observations for metal–oxide semiconductor-based gas sensor materials and future prospects for advancing sensor technology.

Lithium extraction attracts great attention due to the rising demand for batteries, but faces challenges related to low natural abundance and environmental concerns. MOFs show promise in lithium extraction, benefitting from customizable structures.

The calculated polarizability anisotropy, hyperpolarizability and HOMO–LUMO gap of optically active groups.

Tannic acid salt-modified CoFe layer double hydroxide on nickel foam (CoFe LDH@CoFe-TA/NF) as an efficient OER electrocatalyst, requiring an overpotential of 379 mV to achieve 1000 mA cm⁻² and maintaining stability for 450 h in alkaline seawater.

Three isostructural lanthanide–titanium–oxo clusters, Ln₂Ti₇ (Ln = La, Sm, Eu), were synthesized. Eu₂Ti₇ exhibits a strong magnetic circularly polarized luminescence response, while Sm₂Ti₇ shows near-infrared magnetic circular dichroism response.

Two structurally related cyanide-bridged {Fe₂Co}-based chain compounds with different interchain π⋯π stacks exhibited different thermal stabilities of the photo-induced HS* states with thermal relaxation temperatures of 130 and 90 K, respectively.

A covalent organic polymer (COP) single crystal (CityU-30) based on dative B ← N bond was prepared. CityU-30 exhibits a pronounced photothermal effect.

The photochemotherapeutic activity of diazido Pt(IV) complexes towards bladder cancer, a common cancer with expensive treatment, has been tuned via modification of trans N-heterocyclic ligands, to give a candidate for preclinical development.

Benefitting from reticular chemistry, the newly developed MOF material ZJNU-400 establishes a low-polarity environment that enables reversed ethane adsorption and facilitates the efficient separation of C₂H₆/C₂H₄.

Isostructural bimetallic M_xNi_1−x-NKU-100 electrocatalysts were synthesized. Cu_xNi_1−x-NKU-100 and Fe_xNi_1−x-NKU-100 exhibited improved electrocatalytic HER performance in acidic and alkaline electrolytes, respectively.

A versatile strategy to enhance the electrocatalytic activity of oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) has been developed by activating metal sites occupied by weakly coordinating solvent molecules as catalytic active centers.s

The π-expanded dibenzocyclooctatetraene ligand was employed to access an unprecedented series of actinide sandwich compounds. The trivalent uranium complexes were studied by crystallography, spectroscopy, and computations.

A binucleating ligand (2) combining a monoanionic PCP pincer cleft with a monoanionic N–N cleft has been prepared on the basis of bis(imidazolyl)methane (1).

A novel ionic COF has been successfully synthesized through a two-step process, which can be used for dual-mode detection of organochlorine pesticides and the construction of a smartphone sensing platform.

Ni species-incorporated CoP nanosheet arrays encapsulated in N-doped carbon layers that exhibit excellent HER, HzOR and hydrazine-assisted seawater splitting activities were synthesized, and a multi-powered hydrogen production system was proposed.

The chiral resolution of Zr₄L₆ cages has been achieved using enantiopure coordination cations, and an cage-supported SOD-type supramolecular zeolite framework was prepared, which demonstrates synergistic CPL output with g_lum values of 1.5 × 10⁻².

A Cu^I/Cu^II mixed-valence metal–organic framework with a rarely reported (3,4,4)-c network topology has been prepared. It can effectively catalyze the cyclization reaction of epoxides or propargyl amines with carbon dioxide.

The novel tin(II) phosphate compound [Sn₃OF]PO₄ exhibits significantly greater birefringence compared with [Sn₃F₃]PO₄ (Δn_obv. = 0.117 versus 0.027@546 nm), achieved by breaking the undesirable symmetry and reorienting stereochemically active lone pairs.

The mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) inhibitors Ru265 and Os245 were functionalized with adamantane to make them amenable for encapsulation in cucurbituril. The resulting host–guest complexes were investigated for their biological properties.

A facile in situ modification strategy was developed to create a unique NiCo-LDH/CeO₂ hollow nanosheet. The formation mechanism and photocatalytic hydrogen production performance of the heterostructure catalyst were thoroughly investigated.

Efficient electrosynthesis of acetoxime from nitrate and acetone at a high current density over a novel Zn/Cu hexagonal nanosheet electrocatalyst.