Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Japan Chemical Reviews is pleased to present this special thematic issue focused on supercritical fluids. Although supercritical fluids have been of continuing scientific interest since the past century, their potential benefits to chemistry are just being fully realized. As chemistry deals largely with the structures and behavior of molecules in gas, liquid, and solid phases, supercritical fluids present a grand opportunity to discover a range of novel chemical phenomena unseen in these conventional phases. Supercritical fluids transcend traditional barriers that separate many subdisciplines of the chemical sciences and appeal to molecular, inorganic, as well as polymer chemists. As a concise, convenient, and authoritative reference, this is one special thematic issue that you don't want to be without.
Tucker provides a perspective on solvent density inhomogeneities in SCFs.
Peters and Gauter analyze fluid multiphase behavior in systems of near-critical CO 2 . Brennecke and Chateauneuf summarize various homogeneous organic reactions as mechanistic probes in SCFs. Baiker comprehensively reviews heterogeneous catalysis in SCFs. Jessop, Ikariya, and Noyori survey the progress of homegeneous catalysis using organometallic complexes. Darr and Poliakoff detail homogeneous catalysis as based on inorganic and metalloorganic coordination chemistry in SCFs.