Pnictogen Chemistry: From Light to Heavy Compounds

Abstract

Pnictogen compounds offer a broad and highly tunable set of characteristics, including pronounced Lewis acidity and basicity, privileged ligand behavior, the reversible switching between different oxidation states, the accessibility of low‐valent species, and intriguing photophysical properties. In the recent renaissance of p‐block chemistry, researchers are focusing their efforts to investigate and exploit these properties, to reveal unprecedented reactivity patterns and to design fascinating applications based on modern and innovative pnictogen chemistry. This special issue presents current trends in the field of pnictogen chemistry.