Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Recently, the longing for new lighting sources and their applications has accelerated the rapid development and exploration of new luminescent materials. In the past years, mechanically-stimulated zinc- and/or sulfur-containing mechanoluminescent materials (ZS-MLMs, hereafter), as an important class of luminescent materials and the most frequently-reported MLMs, have played a crucial role in this…

Dissipative self-assembly (DSA) enables the formation of transient, adaptive structures that persist only through continuous energy dissipation and operation far-from-thermodynamic equilibrium, mirroring the dynamic organization of living systems. In artificial systems, external energy inputs convert inactive precursors into high-energy building blocks that assemble through non-covalent interacti…

The efficient construction of carbon–nitrogen (C N) bonds is a central challenge in organic synthesis, underpinning the production of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials. Catalytic strategies that enable direct formation of C N bonds from abundant carbon- and nitrogen-containing feedstocks offer sustainable pathways for synthesizing high-value compounds such as urea, amides, …