Affiliation:
1. Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 34/36 14055 Berlin Germany
2. Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ) Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy Leipzig University Deutscher Platz 5 04103 Leipzig Germany
3. Department of Chemistry Philipps-University Marburg Hans-Meerwein-Str. 4 35032 Marburg Germany
Abstract
AbstractPnictogen 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.