TY - CHAP AU - Sakiat Hossain AU - Lakshmi V. Nair AU - Junta Inoue AU - Yuki Koyama AU - Wataru Kurashige AU - Yuichi Negishi ED - Chandraleka Saravanan ED - Bhaskar Biswas Y1 - 2018-05-23 PY - 2018 T1 - Ligand-Protected Gold Clusters N2 - The book Ligand describes the diversity and versatility of ligands, covering structural features, donor-acceptor properties and secondary functions like molecular recognition. Moreover, this book also provides a comprehensive account on the applicability like catalysis, sensors, supramolecular assembly, photochemical property, bioinorganic chemistry, and so on. The advancement of fundamentals in ligand design and the control of physicochemical properties of coordination compounds has largely increased emphasis on understanding the structural and electronic features toward different perspectives in materials science. In this regard, this book has a special appeal to chemists, biologists and others. This book will be beneficial for the graduate students, teachers, researchers and other professionals who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge in chemistry, biology, microbiology, biotechnology, materials science, environmental science and so on. BT - Ligand SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.73441 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.73441 SN - 978-1-78923-183-0 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -