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Foreword to the French/Nordic special issue on materials and coordination
chemistry
Volume 27, Special Issue S1 (2024), p. 3-4
Online since: 22 November 2024
Issue date: 24 December 2024
Part of Special Issue: French/Nordic Special Issue on Materials and Coordination
Chemistry
Guest editors: Claude P. Gros (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France) and Abhik
Ghosh (The Arctic University, UiT, Tromsø, Norway)
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Foreword
French/Nordic Special Issue on Materials and Coordination Chemistry
Foreword to the French/Nordic special issue on
materials and coordination chemistry
Claude P. Gros ,a and Abhik Ghosh ,b
a Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l’Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB), UMR CNRS
6302, Université de Bourgogne, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex,
France
b Department of Chemistry, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø N-9037,
Norway
E-mails: claude.gros@u-bourgogne.fr (C. P. Gros), abhik.ghosh@uit.no (A. Ghosh)
French–Nordic relations have long been char-
acterized by deep mutual admiration, wide-ranging
cultural exchange, and collaboration in the scientific-
technological arena. The nations in question ded-
icate substantial amounts of funds annually to in-
ternational collaboration and to French–Nordic col-
laboration in particular. Both France and the Nordic
countries are home to unique large-scale facilities
such as the ESRF and MAXLAB, historic and leg-
endary universities, as well as world-class research
groups at smaller universities in spectacular set-
tings. The world’s northernmost university UiT—The
Arctic University of Norway at 70° N, home base of
one of the guest editors (in Tromsø), is an example
of the latter. This Special Issue of Comptes Rendus
Chimie celebrates French–Nordic collaboration in
coordination chemistry and materials chemistry
and/or research groups interested or engaged in such
collaboration.
Herein, Piligkos et al. (doi:10.5802/crchim.282)
describe the influence of long aliphatic side chains
on the magnetic properties of tris(salen)-type lan-
thanide (Tb-Tm and Y) complexes.
Cattey and Plasseraud (doi:10.5802/crchim.260)
investigate the reactivity of the hydroxo di-n-
butyltin-trifluoromethanesulfonato dimer complex
towards 1,10-phenanthroline leading to novel 1,10-
phenanthroline-complexed, mono- and binuclear
organotin(IV) derivatives.
Henrichsen, Bendix, and Weihe (doi:10.5802/
crchim.266) present and interpret the parallel-mode
X-band EPR spectra of the hexaaquamanganese(II)
ion, assisted by the species’ exact Td (tetrahedral)
crystallographic symmetry.
Abou-Fayssal, Poli, Philippot, Riisager, and
Manoury (doi:10.5802/crchim.301) review polymeric
nanoreactors for catalytic applications, including a
recent nanoreactor used in biphasic catalysis.
Pascal, Zaborova, and Siri (doi:10.5802/crchim.
292) report the synthesis and characterization of
two nickel complexes based on 1,2,4-triamino-5-
nitrobenzene as air-stable aromatic polyamines,
highlighting the importance of intramolecular
hydrogen-bonding interactions and the influence
of the nitro group on the stability of the complexes.
Devillers and coworkers (doi:10.5802/crchim.307)
describe a synthesis of meso-(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)-
porphyrins based on the nucleophilic attack by
(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)lithium on a porphyrin with one
free meso-position.
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4 Claude P. Gros and Abhik Ghosh
Lioret and Decréau (doi:10.5802/crchim.335)
present a proof of concept of a novel approach to
in vivo imaging involving Cherenkov Radiation En-
ergy Transfer (CRET) from 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose to
subphthalocyanine fluorophores.
Using relativistic DFT calculations, Ghosh and
Conradie (doi:10.5802/crchim.264) shed new light on
gold(II) porphyrins, rare mononuclear Au(II) species
that were isolated and structurally characterized only
a few years ago. A key feature of these complexes is a
wave deformation of the porphyrin, a reflection of a
noninnocent porphyrin macrocycle.
Also focusing on gold complexes, Orthaber et al.
(doi:10.5802/crchim.328) describe the use of the
semi-rigid cis-1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethene
ligand, which favors the formation of mononuclear,
as opposed to binuclear, Au(I) complexes.
Finally, guest editors Ghosh and Gros and their
coworkers (doi:10.5802/crchim.299) introduce hyp-
sochlorins, named by analogy with hypsoporphyrins,
which exhibit blue-shifted optical spectra relative to
their normal counterparts.
It is worth mentioning that this special issue is
being published shortly after the 1st Åsgard Horizon
French-Norwegian Inorganic and Materials Chem-
istry Symposium, which took place May 30–31, 2024,
in Dijon, France. The second edition of this sympo-
sium will be held in Tromsø, Norway, in June, 2025.
Both events were organized under the auspices of
the Institut Français de Norvège, whose support we
deeply appreciate.
We are also grateful to the French Académie des
Sciences and to Dr Pierre Braunstein, Editor-in-Chief
of the Comptes Rendus Chimie, as well as to Mr. Julien
Desmarets for his efficient handling of the submit-
ted manuscripts. We trust that this issue will en-
courage many others, from exchange students to se-
nior scientists, to take advantage of the wide-ranging
opportunities afforded by French–Nordic collabora-
tion.


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