Encyclopedia of the Elemental Carbon (with a Commentary Tailored for Inorganic Chemists)

In this Comment, the content of the book by B.I. Kharisov, O.V. Kharissova, Carbon Allotropes: Metal-Complex Chemistry, Properties and Applications, published in 2019 by Springer Nature Publishing, has been characterized in detail. A great amount of information presented in this book is devoted to numerous varieties (allotropic modifications) of elemental carbon, each of which currently has not only purely academic, but also significant practical interest. This book is important for researchers working in the field of inorganic chemistry of carbon, as well as researchers in the field of chemistry of coordination compounds, which has traditionally been classified as inorganic chemistry since its inception.