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For many years, research efforts in materials chemistry have focused on the development of new methods for materials synthesis. Traditional areas of interest have included the synthesis of catalytic, electronic, and refractory materials via aqueous methods (sol-gel and impregnation) and high-temperature reactions [1-3]. More recent strategies have focused on the synthesis of materials with tailored properties and structures, including well-defined pores, homogeneously distributed elements, isolated catalytic sites, comphcated stoichiometries, inorganic/organic hybrids, and nanoparticles [4-13]. A feature... 

As Director of the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation, Hancock pioneered many new initiatives, especially those that encouraged interdisciplinary and international collaborations. He had an expansive view of chemistry as a science and urged chemists to pursue imaginative research on the discipline s traditional boundaries that would expand chemistry s frontiers. In materials chemistry, he saw a vital and growing area to which chemists could make important contributions. Under his leadership, the Division s support for research in materials chemistry grew to over 20 million in 1993. 

Chemistry really should be at the heart of this revolution in materials. Chemistry is the discipline that has been associated with the study of matter that is the science of chemistry. Moreover, chemistry is also the discipline associated with the purposeful manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level. But, in terms of materials chemistry, the time is right because of the ability to do analysis at an unprecedented level of resolution. However, our academic system has not yet responded for our students because our laboratory and lecture subjects have not yet included the dramatic advances in analytical capability. This is an important charge to the academic community. 

Table I. Teaching and Research in Materials Chemistry in the Twentieth Century... 

Basic Subject Matter Chemists Must Acquire To Work in Materials Chemistry... 

Those few chemistry departments interested in materials chemistry should start hiring faculty trained in materials sciences. 

Chemistry departments should start offering a concentration area in materials chemistry, and the requirements for this degree include the substitution of 15 credits of phase equilibria, crystallography, crystal chemistry, and materials characterization to be taken in the materials or geoscience departments. Where local chemistry faculty can teach... 

A large number of all citations to organozinc compounds deal with the use of these compounds as precursors for solid-state materials, particularly for MOCVD applications. The latter area has become so interdisciplinary and grown to such an extent that the editors of this edition considered it prudent to devote an entire volume (Volume 12) to the use of organometallic compounds in materials chemistry. While the syntheses and structures of potential organozinc precursors for such applications will be treated in this chapter, the detailed aspects of the conversion of organozinc compounds to solid-state materials are the topic of Volume 12. 

In materials chemistry, nanoparticles of noble metals are an original family of compounds. Well-defined in terms of their size, structure and composition, zero-valent transition-metal colloids provide considerable current interest in a variety of applications. Here, the main interest is their application in catalysis. Zerovalent nanocatalysts can be generated in various media (aqueous, organic, or mixture) from two strategic approaches according to the nature of the precursor, namely (i) mild chemical reduction of transition-metal salt solutions and (ii) metal atom... 

We have compiled important preparations of heteroaryl halides, boranes and stannanes for each heterocycle. The large body of data regarding palladium-mediated polymerization of heterocycles in material chemistry is not focused here neither is coordination chemistry involving palladium and heterocycles. 

Ultrafine powders are usually considered to be particles with diameters between 1 -100 run [141]. A focus for recent work in material chemistry has been the preparation of such particles [142] because of their special properties optical, photocatalytic, electrochemical, magnetic, thermal resistance, high melting point and sintering abilities [143,144]. A variety of chemical and physical methods have been used for the synthesis of such materials including the decomposition of organometallics [145] and the controlled reduction of salts [146-148]. 

As for fundamental research, sometimes it is not driven by the existing questions in applied catalysis, but is driven by the fimdamental curiosity in materials chemistry [51, 52] or inspired by the results from basic research reported previously. For example, after studying the decarbonylation of organic molecules on platinum smface [64], we wondered that if adsorbed CO is produced on platinmn smface, then how to remove it. 

Much has been said about the application of this heterocyclic system in supramolecular chemistry and in materials chemistry, particularly in the preparation of organic conductors and superconductors. It should not be forgotten however that heterocyclic compounds in general are extremely important medicinal compounds. Although medicinal applications of this heterocyclic system have been rare in the years since CHEC-II(1996), some have been reported. Townsend and co-workers have described the preparation of imidazo[4,5-r/ isothiazole nucleosides 174-177 and have demonstrated their properties as antiproliferative and antiviral analogues of the antibiotic nebularine 172 and the highly cytotoxic 6-methylpurine nucleoside 173 <1997JME771>. 

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