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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm Poster Prize Winner at ACA 70th American Crystallographic Association

The ACA 70th American Crystallographic Association meeting took place virtually on Sunday, 2nd to Friday, 7th August 2020. This year’s annual meeting included a special COVID-19 session, plenary lectures from 2020 ACA Award winners, invited and contributed talks, poster presentations, and practical workshops.  The conference featured the latest research results and instructional presentations, across topics of interest to all scientists who need to understand the arrangement of atoms in matter. Scientists interested in molecular and materials structure, with specialties in biology, chemistry, geosciences, materials science and more participated to exchange scientific research findings and technique know-how.

CrystEngComm sponsored a poster prize and congratulations go to the winner David Villaman, Pontifica Universidad Catolica Valparaiso, Chile “Structural Studies of Manganese(III) Complex with Spin-Crossover and Thermochromic Properties”

Congratulations also go to the CrystEngComm Poster Prize Honorable Mention, Lana Hiscock, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Controlling π-Stacking Interactions in a Series of Novel Heteroacene Derivatives”

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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm Poster and Oral Prize Winners at the 6.5th Crystal Engineering & Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario & Quebec (CEMWOQ-6.5)

The 6.5th Crystal Engineering & Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario & Quebec (CEMWOQ-6.5) took place virtually on Saturday, 30th to Sunday, 31st May 2020.  The event brought together academic, and industrial researchers (students, faculty, and staff) working on the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of materials, with a focus on solid state chemistry and crystal engineering. The workshop enabled the exchange of ideas, serving as an educational and networking event for students, as well as academic and industrial professionals.

CrystEngComm sponsored two poster prizes and one oral prize.

Congratulations go to Daniel Cutler and Navkiran Kaur Juneja who both won Outstanding Poster Presentation prizes.

And congratulation go to Christopher Taylor who won the Oral Presentation prize.

The winners all received a journal certificate and a cash prize.

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1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions

ICNI 2019, 1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions

 

Have you read our cross-journal web collection celebrating the 1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions yet? With articles from CrystEngComm, Dalton Transactions, New Journal of Chemistry,  RSC Advances, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Chemical Science, ChemComm and more, this collection is not one to miss!

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Noncovalent interactions (hydrogen, aerogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen, tetrel and icosagen bonds, as well as cation-π, anion-π, lone pair-π, π-π stacking, agostic, pseudo-agostic, anagostic, dispersion-driven, lipophilic, etc.) concern weak forces of attraction formed between different molecules (intermolecular) or fragments of the same molecule (intramolecular). While these weak interactions were firstly taken into consideration by van der Waals in 1873, the understanding of their crucial role in synthesis, catalysis, crystal engineering, pharmaceutical design, molecular biology, molecular recognition, materials, etc. has been increasingly explored in the last few decades.

Thus, it is timely to establish a general/regular series of International Conferences on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI), the first of which is to be held on 2-6 September 2019 in Lisbon. The conference aims to bring together scientists from around the world working on this field in order to exchange ideas, discuss recent advances and future directions/plans.

Guest-Edited by Kamran T Mahmudov and Armando J L Pombeiro, this collection brings together previous papers as well as new articles celebrating noncovalent interactions. Remember to check back regularly to see our latest articles up to and after the conference takes place!

 

Browse a collection of our latest articles today:

Chirality-dependent halogen bonds in axially chiral quinazolin-4-one derivatives bearing ortho-halophenyl groups
Tomomi Imai, Erina Niijima, Shumpei Terada, Alicja Wzorek, Vadim A. Soloshonok, Akiko Hori and Osamu Kitagawa
CrystEngComm, 2019, 21, 3385-3389
DOI: 10.1039/C9CE00320G, Communication

[2+2] Halogen-bonded boxes employing azobenzenes
Esther Nieland, Thomas Topornicki, Tom Kunde and Bernd M. Schmidt
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 8768-8771
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03061A, Communication

Analysis of energies of halogen and hydrogen bonding interactions in the solid state structures of vanadyl Schiff base complexes
Snehasish Thakur, Michael G. B. Drew, Antonio Franconetti, Antonio Frontera and Shouvik Chattopadhyay
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 4789-4796
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09947B, Paper

Organocatalysis by a multidentate halogen-bond donor: an alternative to hydrogen-bond based catalysis
Manomi D. Perera and Christer B. Aakeröy
New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 8311-8314
DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ01404G, Paper

Tetra-, hexa- and octanuclear copper hydride complexes supported by tridentate phosphine ligands
Takayuki Nakajima, Kanako Nakamae, Rika Hatano, Kaho Imai, Masafumi Harada, Yasuyuki Ura and Tomoaki Tanase
Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 12050-12059
DOI: 10.1039/C9DT02467K, Paper

Correlation of the partial charge-transfer and covalent nature of halogen bonding with the THz and IR spectral changes
Hajime Torii
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 17118-17125
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP02747E, Paper

On the importance of antiparallel π–π interactions in the solid state of isatin-based hydrazides
Muhammad Naeem Ahmed, Maryam Arif, Farah Jabeen, Haroon Ahmed Khan, Khawaja Ansar Yasin, Muhammad Nawaz Tahir, Antonio Franconetti and Antonio Frontera
New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 8122-8131
DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ00405J, Paper

 

Have any queries about publishing with CrystEngComm, Dalton Transactions or New Journal of Chemistry? Our Deputy Editor Mike Andrews will be attending in September so don’t forget to say hello.

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Congratulations to the RSC Prize Winners at 4th Annual UK Porous Materials Conference!

The Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat), now in its 4th year, was held at Cardiff University on the 1st and 2nd of July 2019. The meeting, organised and chaired by the committee members of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group, aims to bring together researchers working in the expanding field of porous materials, which includes metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic cages, porous organic polymers, polymers of intrinsic microporosity and much more.

The Royal Society of Chemistry was delighted to be a part of the event, sponsoring a number of poster and talk prizes:

•  Alexander Thom (University of Glasgow) was awarded the CrystEngComm Poster Prize
•  Giulia Schukraft (Imperial College London) was awarded the ChemComm Poster Prize
•  Iona Doig (University of Southampton) was awarded the Materials Horizons Poster Prize
•  Alex James (University of Sheffield) was awarded the Chemical Science Prize for Best Talk

Congratulations to all of the prize winners!

 

Royal Society of Chemistry Poster Prize Winner Alexander Thom CrystEngComm Royal Society of Chemistry Poster Prize Winner
Alexander Thom (left) receiving the CrystEngComm Poster Prize from Ross Forgan (right) Iona Doig (right) receiving the Materials Horizons prize from Chris Harding (left)
Royal Society of Chemistry Poster Prize Winner Royal Society of Chemistry Prize Winners
Alex James (left) receiving the Chemical Science prize from Chris Harding (right) Prize winners at the close of the 4th Annual UK Porous Materials meeting ( Cardiff, 1-2 July 2019)

 

Special thanks go to the organizers and committee members of the RSC Porous Materials Interest Group:

Dr Thomas Bennett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Andrea Laybourn (University of Nottingham)
Dr Ross Forgan (University of Glasgow)
Dr Darren Bradshaw (University of Southampton)
Dr Tim Easun (Cardiff University)
Dr Timothy Johnson (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre)
Professor Tina Düren

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Congratulations to the CrystEngComm poster prize winners at PCCr2 2019!

The Pan African Conference on Crystallography (PCCr2) was held 28th January – 2nd February in Accra, Ghana. The conference was open to researchers, academics, students and individuals from all over the world with the aim of creating a platform for sharing knowledge, promoting networks and establishing collaborations to further the development of the continent through science and engineering.

The CrystEngComm poster prizes were awarded to:

Lois Afua Okyerewaa Damptey, University of Ghana, Legon for her poster entitled:

Transesterification triglyceride over MgO doped hierarchical porous SiO2

Lois Afua Okyerewaa Damptey and her winning poster, University of Ghana, Legon, Transesterification triglyceride over MgO doped hierarchical porous SiO2

Lois Afua Okyerewaa Damptey and her winning poster

Radhwane Takouachet, University of Abbes Laghrour-Khenchela, Algeria, Structural analysis and IR-spectroscopy of a new anilinium hydrogenselenite hybrid compound: A subtle structural phase transition

Radhwane Takouachet’s winning poster

 

and Radhwane Takouachet, University of Abbes Laghrour-Khenchela, Algeria for his poster entitled:

Structural analysis and IR-spectroscopy of a new anilinium hydrogenselenite hybrid compound: A subtle structural phase transition

The winners received a journal certificate, a book voucher and a free subscription to CrystEngComm.

CrystEngComm sends hearty congratulations to the winners!

 

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AIC Award winner 2018

Congratulations to Luca Catalano, a CrystEngComm author and former PhD student of Pierangelo Metrangolo, our CrystEngComm chair.

Luca has won a prize for best PhD thesis at the Italian Association of Crystallography which took place last month in Rome, Italy. His thesis was titled: ‘Towards Engineering of Solid-State Supramolecular Rotors via Halogen Bonding‘.

Luca currently works as a post-doctoral researcher for Pance Naumov’s group.

(Left) Luca Catalano with his award at the AIC 2018

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IUCr 2017

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Poster prize winners at CEMWOQ-4

Congratulations to the CrystEngComm poster prize winners who were awarded at The 4th Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec (CEMWOQ-4). The workshop was held in Ontario, Canada from the 26th – 28th May 2017. Christer Aakeroy our Associate Editor attended as a plenary lecturer and was on hand to award the prizes.

The winners were presented accordingly:

1st Place Undergraduate Poster Award: Junghoon Ko, University of Windsor, for “Discotic Liquid Crystals with Internal Side Chains as Potential Organic Semi-Conductors”
2nd Place Graduate Poster Award: Mitchell Nascimento, University of Windsor, for “Expanding the Family of Palladium-DTDA Metal Complexes”
2nd Place Undergraduate Poster Award: Austin Peach, University of Windsor, for “Applications of 35Cl SSNMR for the study of HCl Pharmaceutical Cocrystals”

The workshop enables an easy exchange of ideas, expertise and information and serves as an educational event for students. It also supports/creates new collaborations between research groups. There are plenary and oral presentations, and a poster session with opportunity for discussion within the program. A training workshop on the day before the main meeting is included, on a topic relevant to one or more of the existing themes of the meeting.

Further information on the most recent meeting, and links to other previous meetings, can be viewed at this website.

(From left) Christer Aakeroy awarding CrystEngComm poster prizes to (from left to right): Junghoon Ko, Mitchell Nascimento and Austin Peach

 

 

 

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CrystEngComm Prize winners at the 27th MOSSCS symposium

Congratulations to CrystEngComm prize winners: Bhupinder Sandhu, Yue Qiu and Shane Nichols. They were awarded their prizes at the Midwest Organic Solid State Chemistry Symposium XXVII (MOSSCS) which took place at Kansas State University, USA from the 9th – 10th June 2017. CrystEngComm Associate Editor Christer Aakeroy was on hand to present their certificates.

The MOSSCS symposium provides opportunities for the scientific community to exchange ideas and research results on the organic solid state in a relaxed environment. The symposium involves presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral associates as well as invited lectures on topics of current interest.

Further information about the symposium can be found on their website.

CrystEngComm Associate Editor Christer Aakeroy with prize winners (left to right): Bhupinder Sandhu, Yue Qiu and Shane Nichols

 

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25th Symposium on Organic Crystals

Congratulations to Mr Asato Mizuno the CrystEngComm presentation prize winner at the 25th Symposium on Organic Crystals which took place from the 18th – 19th September in Koyoto, Japan.

The symposium was organised by the Organic Crystals Division – Chemical Society of Japan. Mr Mizuno’s presentation was titled: ‘Structures and Physical Properties of 3D Crystals Formed by a Triangular π Radical’.

Poster prize winner

From left to right: Prof Rui Tamura, President of Organic Crystals Division – Chemical Society of Japan, Center: Mr Asato, Right: Hiromitsu Urakami

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