Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry

Main-group chemistry has been a hot topic for years, but it has recently come into vogue over the past 20 years. Topics in main-group chemistryrange from the fundamental breakthroughs involving multiple bonding in silicon, phosphorous, and other heavier elements to the present-day applications in materials via sol-gel methods (particularly in silicate chemistry), and in the preparation of materials such as boron nitrides and chemically modified single-walled nanotubes. Ceramics and dense materials are almost all made using oxides, carbides, nitrides, or borides. Inorganic polymers, such as polyphosphazenes; semi-condutor group 13-15, 14-16 compounds; coatings; catalysts...all are important aspects of main group chemistry. This book will cover a broad range of main-group chemistry, from the fundamental to th applied.