Bioinorganic Chemistry is a specialized field that spans the chemistry of metal-containing molecules. This field is important in realizing the control and use of metal ions and metal folding of biomolecules. As an stupendous mix of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry, this field is important in realizing the implications of electron-transfer proteins, substrate bindings and activation, atom and group transfer chemistry as well as metal properties in biological chemistry.
Bioinorganic chemistry spurns from the continuing research in inorganic chemistry and its important associations in biological chemistry. Researchers in this field include Prof. Stephen Lippard (http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/lippard.html) of MIT, Prof. Richard Schrock of MIT, and Prof. Richard Holm of Harvard University.
The boundaries of inorganic chemistry with the other major areas of chemistry are not precisely defined, and it is often a matter of taste as to whether a particular topic is to be included in the field of inorganic chemistry or is to be considered physical or even organic chemistry.
Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds.
Subdivisions of inorganic chemistry are organometallic chemistry, cluster chemistry and bioinorganicchemistry.
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