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Science 12 March 1993:
Vol. 259. no. 5101, pp. 1558 - 1564
DOI: 10.1126/science.259.5101.1558
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Turning Down the Heat: Design and Mechanism in Solid-State Synthesis

Andreas Stein 1, Steven W. Keller 1, and Thomas E. Mallouk 2

1 Postdoctoral fellows, Austin, TX 78712
2 Professor of chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

Solid-state compounds have historically been prepared through high-temperature solid-solid reactions. New mechanistic understanding of these reactions suggests possible routes to metastable compositions and structures as well as to thermodynamically stable, low-temperature phases that decompose at higher temperatures. Intermediate-temperature synthetic techniques, including flux and hydrothermal methods, as well as low-temperature intercalation and coordination reactions, have recently been developed and have been used to prepare unprecedented materials with interesting electronic, optical, and catalytic properties. The trend in modern solid-state synthesis resembles increasingly the approach used in small-molecule chemistry, in the sense that attention to reaction mechanism and the use of molecular building blocks result in an ability to prepare new materials of designed structure.


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