Interplay of thermochemistry and Structural Chemistry, the journal (volume 18, 2007) and the discipline

Abstract

In this study, we relate the contents of the journal Structural Chemistry for the calendar year 2007 and thermochemistry. The year's articles were briefly summarized and a thermochemical comment written to supplement them. Frequently questions were asked and future research was suggested.Keywords Structural Chemistry Á Thermochemistry Á Thermodynamics Á Enthalpy of formation Á Enthalpy of phase change Á Enthalpy of reaction As practiced disciplines, structural chemistry and thermochemistry are very often unrelated. In this study, these disciplines are linked as relations are explicitly made using the contents of the journal Structural Chemistry (Vol. 18) for the calendar year 2007 as a scaffold for our analysis, for our selected articles in the discipline of structural chemistry. These studies have been reviewed by us, where we give them a thermochemical flavor. While this commentary is most generally written in terms of brief summaries of literature papers involving enthalpies of formation and/or reaction, not uncommonly we raise questions and even suggest possible future research. We are not, however, going to give a thermochemical slant on book reviews, honorary dedications, and obituaries although these works will be cited in our text.As such, this article is a sequel to our earlier related reviews of Structural Chemistry for the calendar years 2000 through 2004 [1-5]. Reviews for 2005 and 2006 are currently being prepared. Issue 1In the first article in the first issue of Structural Chemistry for 2007, Hargittai [6] asserted that while research is currently usually carried out in big groups, the most important ideas, observations and discoveries still belong to individuals who have to bring down dogmas or open entirely new areas in science. This may bring solace to the thermochemical community in which research groups are generally small, and the number of new practitioners sadly few.In the past decade, the crystal engineering of multidimensional arrays and networks containing metal ions has achieved considerable progress because of the increased interest in the potential utility of these compounds as zeolite-like materials [7-11], catalysts [12], or magnetic materials [13][14][15]. The thermochemistry of these species is complicated by their inherent complexity: however, estimation approaches of their key thermochemical quantities are increasingly reliable [16]. In the second article of this issue, by Wang et al. [17], the versatility of malonate dianion as a ligand for the construction of extended networks with different topologies dependent on the coordination geometry of the metal ion was discussed. The synthesis and structure of a novel malonate-bridged copper(II) compound in which copper(II) ions have two different coordination environments in a novel three-dimensional (3D) network was described. Metal malonates have been studied from a

Interplay of thermochemistry and Structural Chemistry, the journal (volume 19, 2008) and the discipline

“…The next paper by Yang et al [111] reports the synthesis and crystal structure of a new layered complex [Ni(L)(T-PHA)]Á8H 2 O (L = 1,3,6,9,11,14-hexaazatricyclo[12.2.1.1 (6,9)] octadecane; TPHA = terephthalate dianion) which contains a 2-D network of eight-member water clusters which are strongly connected by O-HÁÁÁO hydrogen bonds. As part of a study of the energetics of hydrates [112], the energetics of water clusters of the general formula (H 2 O) n were recently compared to cycloalkanes with the general formula (CH 2 ) n .…”

“…The last issue of volume 19 opened with an article by Ponikvar and Liebman [9] relating thermochemistry to the content of the articles contained in Structural Chemistry for the year 2007. As such, this article is the conceptual ''ancestor'' of the current study.…”

“…The current paper as such logically belongs to the series of earlier reviews of Structural Chemistry for calendar years 2000 through 2004 [3][4][5][6][7], 2006 and 2007 [8,9]. The review for 2005 is currently being prepared.…”

Interplay of thermochemistry and Structural Chemistry, the journal (volume 21, 2010) and the discipline

“…This review is conceptually and organizationally very much the same as the reviews of previous volumes of this journal [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] in which each article has been reviewed and summarized by us from our personal perspectives as well as knowledge, facilitated wherever possible by the original authors' choice of key words. Of course, our perspectives are often very much different as is also our basic scientific education-it is interesting to observe how scientists working in different areas consider the same subject.…”

Interplay of thermochemistry and Structural Chemistry, the journal (volume 16, 2005) and the discipline

“…The current study belongs to our series of earlier reviews of the contents of the journal Structural Chemistry for calendar years 2000 through 2004 [1][2][3][4][5], 2006 through 2008 [6][7][8] we give to the ''chemical'' content of this journal (volume 16,2005) a thermochemical flavor-the energies of chemical species and systems of formation, reactions, and of phase transition are discussed. Questions or suggestions for further research are not uncommonly given.…”