Beginning with Volume 43, Issue 25, Inorganic Chemistry began publishing Forums.

Inorganic Chemistry Forums consist of a set of thematically linked papers from leading scientists on a multidisciplinary topic of growing interest. Papers present overviews, research perspectives and original research reports on the Forum theme and are highlighted on the cover of the journal issue in which they appear.

These forums are good introductions to a broad-ish sub-area of inorganic chemistry (such as the impact of inorganic chemistry on nuclear energy and actinides, main group chemistry synthesis and applications, to name two recent ones).

These papers could form a subset of a primary literature based course, or could form the basis for a student paper summarizing the field.