special issues
Acta Crystallographica Section C publishes focused special sections and issues devoted to all areas of structural chemistry.
The journal has published exciting special issues on topics as diverse as
The journal also publishes curated collections from its archive, or virtual issues. The third virtual issue featured coordination polymers, with an introduction by Len Barbour.
If you would like to see a special issue on a particular topic enabled by the determination, calculation or analysis of small-molecule crystal and molecular structures in the chemical sciences, please send your suggestion to the Managing Editor (Sean Conway; sc@iucr.org).
Forthcoming special issue
Acta Crystallographica Section C is planning a special issue on the topic listed below with the aim of expanding the scope and authorship of the journal. Authors wishing to submit articles for this issue should first read the Notes for authors and the online submission instructions. Further information on the special issue can be obtained by contacting either the Guest Editor(s) or the Managing Editor (Sean Conway; sc@iucr.org).
Halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen and tetrel bonds: structural chemistry and beyond (to be published in 2022)
Guest editors: Lee Brammer (University of Sheffield, UK; e-mail: lee.brammer@sheffield.ac.uk), Tom Roseveare (University of Sheffield, UK; e-mail: tom.roseveare@sheffield.ac.uk) and Anssi Peuronen (University of Sheffield, UK, and University of Turku, Finland; e-mail: anssi.peuronen@sheffield.ac.uk)
The special issue will focus on studies of halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, pnictogen bonds, tetrel bonds and related intermolecular interactions, sometimes also referred to as sigma-hole interactions, in which main group elements act as directional Lewis acids trans to their sigma-bonds. As the remit of the journal is aligned with structural chemistry, the focus of the special issue will be on the relationship of structure and of structural chemistry to this pervasive class of interactions. Although in the minds of some, structural chemistry may invoke only crystal structures, this is too narrow a definition. The special issue will undoubtedly involve examples in which crystal structures play a prominent role, but will embrace spectroscopic and computational studies, and studies of applications of the aforementioned intermolecular interactions in which structure or structural chemistry has a defining role.
The special issue aims not to provide a home for a collection of orphan X-ray crystal structures that happen to contain a halogen bond. Rather the special issue aims to provide a focus for a collection of papers in which structure has an important role to play in the narrative of halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, pnictogen bonds, tetrel bonds and related intermolecular interactions.
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Previously published special issues
Acta Crystallographica Section C has published four special issues on the topics listed below with the aim of expanding the scope and authorship of the journal. It is hoped that the special issues will demonstrate to the scientific community the style of papers that the journal is now inviting. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry is the journal of choice for publishing any interesting research enabled by the determination, calculation or analysis of small-molecule crystal and molecular structures in the chemical sciences.
Scorpionates (September 2013)
Guest editor: Glenn Yap (University of Delaware, USA; e-mail: gpyap@udel.edu)

Pharmaceuticals, drug discovery and natural products (November 2013)
Guest editor: Chris Frampton (Pharmorphix Solid State Services, Cambridge, UK; e-mail: chris.frampton@sialcom)

Interplay of crystallography, spectroscopy and theoretical methods for solving chemical problems (December 2013)
Guest editors: Larry Falvello (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; e-mail: falvello@unizar.es) and Alberto Albinati (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy; e-mail: alberto.albinati@unimi.it)

Computational materials discovery (February 2014)
Guest editor: Artem Oganov (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA; e-mail: artem.oganov@sunysb.edu)

Scorpionates: a golden anniversary (November 2016)
Guest editors: Glenn Yap (University of Delaware, USA; e-mail: gpyap@udel.edu) and Kiyoshi Fujisawa (Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito, Japan; e-mail: kiyoshi.fujisawa.sci@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp)

NMR crystallography (March 2017)
Guest editors: David Bryce (University of Ottawa, Canada; e-mail: dbryce@uottawa.ca) and Francis Taulelle (Universite de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France; francis.taulelle@uvsq.fr)

Polyoxometalates (POMs) (November 2018)
Guest editors: José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain; e-mail: jrgalan@iciq.es) and Ulrich Kortz (Jacobs University, Germany; e-mail: u.kortz@jacobs-university.de)
