Speciality inorganic chemicals

As the name implies, these chemicals are manufactured for more specialist uses, and as a consequence are produced on a much smaller scale, but command a much higher price than those produced in bulk. In general much research and development has occurred, often involving collaboration between university and industrial researchers. These chemicals tend to be made in batch mode that is, in the same way in which we normally carry out reactions in the laboratory, where reactants are loaded into a reaction vessel and heated for a prescribed length of time. The products are isolated, and the process repeated to produce more. 

As with the heavy inorganic sector, the list of speciality chemicals is vast. In this section we only consider a small selection of some common speciality inorganic chemicals to illustrate both their wide variety and diversity of applications. 

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G. E. Eveson, in R. Thompson, ed.. Speciality Inorganic Chemicals, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London, U.K., 1980. 

A. Harper, Chap 17, pp. 435-56 in D. Thompson (ed.). Insights into Speciality Inorganic Chemicals, RSC, Cambridge, 1995. 

Bostian, L. C., in Speciality Inorganic Chemicals, Thompson, R., Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1981,63. 

G. C. Bond, Heterogeneous Catalysis Principles and Applications, 2nd Ed. Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon), Oxford, 1987 G. C. Bond, In Insights into Speciality Inorganic Chemicals (D. Thompson, ed.), pp. 63-104. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1995. 

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