Research work · 1995
Some recent developments in inorganic materials chemistry
Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Abstract
This chapter explores some recent developments in inorganic materials chemistry. Many of these have come in the area of new materials. The chemistry of high temperature superconducting phases, in terms of the synthesis and structure of these compounds, lies within the area of this text. More recently, the structural chemistry of C60 in its ionic compounds is also relevant, though the chemistry of this species is developing rapidly in many areas. Consideration of several superconducting systems shows two features in common. They all contain planes of the stoichiometry CuO2 formed by linking CuO4 square planes at all vertices, and they all have an average copper oxidation state in excess of 2+. The chapter then looks at the structural chemistry of fullerenes and fullerides.