Frontier of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry (II)-Designed Synthesis-Inorganic Crystalline Porous Materials

The search for new inorganic materials has been changing from the past empirical, trial-and-error methods to the rational design philosophy. This is, in fact, a long journey from possibility to reality. Despite the difficulties, this what synthetic chemists should concentrate on. More research as well as untiring efforts should be driven along these directions. Inorganic synthesis and preparative chemistry play a pivotal role in chemistry, which concerns the development of new synthesis and preparative strategies, routes and methods, elucidation of the chemical processes and mechanism of synthesis and preparation, and the establishment of relevant synthesis theories for the discovery of new inorganic materials, etc. One of the major objectives of inorganic synthesis and preparative chemistry is to synthesize the inorganic materials with desired structures and properties. Even though considerable progress has been achieved in the understanding of the correlations among structure, bonding and physical properties of some inorganic compounds, many difficult challenges remain in targeting the synthesis with desired structures and properties of inorganic materials, especially inorganic crystalline solids.