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The ever burgeoning ‘old’ field of main group chemistry which developed primarily as exploratory synthetic and reactivity chemistry of the main group elements has seen innumerable applications in a variety of fields during the past few decades. In recent years, the developments in this field have been quite rapid. The painstaking efforts made by Anil J. Elias over a 5+ year period culminated in a textbook on the chemistry of elements of the main group, in particular those belonging to groups 13–18.
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