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Towards Novel Alkaline Earth Metal Pyrazolates: Opportunities In Materials Chemistry, Michael G. Bagnall

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Until recent years, the coordination chemistry of the alkaline earth metals remained relatively unexplored. Owing to the development of new synthetic methods and improved techniques for the exclusion of air and moisture, great progress has been made into our understanding of the alkaline earth metals and their compounds. These compounds are useful in a wide variety of applications, including as polymerization initiators, precursors for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for gas separation and storage. Current work in alkaline earth metal chemistry focuses on designing and tailoring ligand systems to expand their potential applications in materials chemistry. …