
Phosphonate Chemistry, Technology, and Applications
Synthesis, Chemistry, and Biomedical Applications
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Konstantinos D. Demadis
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 3 7 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 3 7 5 - 0
Phosphonate Chemistry, Technology, and Applications: Synthesis, Chemistry, and Biomedical Applications gathers important up-to-date information on several modern topics, includ… Read more
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This comprehensive volume is the first part of a 2-volume set. It covers extensively the latest developments in phosphonate chemistry and includes crucial bibliographic information. It explores the constantly expanding world of organic phosphonate compounds and metal phosphonate networks, beyond conventional boundaries. This exploration includes diverse applications derived from these compounds, enhancing the reader's grasp of this dynamic and evolving field.
- Presents several elements of phosphonate chemistry and technology in one source
- Promotes an interdisciplinarity approach to different aspects of phosphonate chemistry
- Covers systematic and concise presentation of the state-of-the-art developments
1. Synthesis of phosphonate-based scale inhibitors for oilfield scale management
Mohamed F. Mady and Adilla Pires
2. Synthesis of Heterocyclic Phosphonic Acids: Methodologies, Mechanisms and Applications
Elpiniki Chachlaki
3. Synthesis of (poly)phosphonic acids: An industrial Perspective
Stephan Liebsch
4. Synthesis of phosphonates for pharmaceutical applications
Zsuzsanna Zsuzsanna Szalai and György Keglevich
5. Fluorescent phosphonates for water treatment applications
Maxim Oshchepkov and Konstantin Popov
6. Phosphonate-based conjugates
Petri Turhanen
7. Preparation and Chemical Transformations of α-Iminophosphonates
Petro Onys'ko
8. Efficient syntheses of N-heterocylic, homocyclic and aliphatic dronic acids; Applications and structures
Nader Noroozi Pesyan
Part II: Synthetic, structural and computational chemistry of phosphonates and metal phosphonates
9. Structural chemistry of metal-triphosphonate materials
Feodor Feodorovich Chausov
10. Metal phosphonates as supports for gold nanoparticles
Monica Pica
11. Porous and functional metal phosphonate frameworks
Tao Zheng, Yuhao Lei and Jiaming Du
12. Mechanochemical synthesis of metal phosphonates
Franziska Emmerling
13. Metal phosphonates with rigid polyphosphonate linkers
Norbert Stock
14. Theoretical and computational modeling of metal phosphonate materials
Konstantinos Xanthopoulos
15. Phosphonate-based compounds in agriculture: Past and future trends
Sara Rojas, MCarmen Contreras, Pablo Salcedo-Abraira and Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez
Part III: Phosphonate-based materials for medicinal, pharmaceutical, and related applications
16. Metal phosphonate frameworks as optical sensors
Flávio Alberto da Silva Figueira Sr.
17. Biology of aminophosphonates
Ewa Chmielewska and Pawel Kafarski
18. The contribution of phosphonate chemistry to PET and related techniques
clara vinas
19. Phosphonates and the brain, from health promoting agents to medicines for neurological disorders
Susana Santos Braga
20. Phosphonate-based amphiphiles for nucleic acid delivery
Paul Alain Jaffrès, Mathieu Berchel and Chloe Le Roux
21. Phosphonate Natural Products and their Biosynthetic Pathways
Jerry Cui and Kou-San Ju
22. Zeolites as intelligent carriers in controlled release of bisphosphonates
Mariusz Sandomierski
23. Developments in bisphosphonate-loaded drug delivery systems (BP-loaded DDS)
Konstantinos E. Papathanasiou
24. Phosphonate-based copolymers as biomedical coatings
Pingsheng Liu and Wan Peng
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Konstantinos D. Demadis
Kostas Demadis is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece. He is head of the Crystal Engineering, Growth & Design Laboratory delving into diverse fields of chemistry and chemical technology. His research group is involved in projects that embrace phosphonate and metal phosphonate chemistry (synthesis, characterization and applications of metal phosphonate materials), functional hybrid materials, silicon chemistry (modeling of biosilicification mechanisms), water treatment issues (mineral scale inhibition, corrosion control, metal ion absorption), controlled release of active pharmaceutical ingredients (in particular phosphonate-based drugs), and green chemistry and engineering. Professor Demadis has published over 220 papers in peer reviewed journals, 24 chapters in books, 8 books, and is the inventor of 2 patents.