Archive for January, 2011

Chemistry World news article on Dalton Transactions fluorescent sensor paper

Chemistry World have spotted Zhilin Wang’s recently published paper in Dalton Transactions.

The researchers work entitled ‘A Zn2+-specific turn-on fluorescent probe for ratiometric sensing of pyrophosphate in both water and blood serum’ is a highly interesting piece using inorganic chemistry to make a promising fluorescent biosensor. See what Chemistry World thought about it and access the rest of the news story or read the original paper.

A Zn2+-specific turn-on fluorescent probe for ratiometric sensing of pyrophosphate in both water and blood serum
Jinghan Wen, Zhirong Geng, Yuxin Yin, Zhong Zhang and Zhilin Wang
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01262A, Paper

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HOT Article: Serendipitous ionic liquids by reactive distillation

In this Dalton Transactions Hot article, ionic liquids are made by reactive distillation.

Peter Licence and co-workers from the University of Nottingham discovered this method by accident while researching [C4C1Im][BF4], when they realised that the substance they had after distillation was very different to their starting materials. Further investigation revealed they had created a borane-substituted imidazol-2-ylidene, a compound with potential to be an excellent solvent for a wide variety of reactions.

The conventional technique to make these type of ionic liquids is via a direct nucleophilic reaction, which is experimentally difficult as the starting reagents are highly reactive. This distillation technique is particularly good, not only because of the stability and availability of the starting materials, but because of the high purity of the obtained products.

Read on to find out more details about this technique.

Borane-substituted imidazol-2-ylidenes: syntheses in vacuo
Alasdair W. Taylor, Kevin R. J. Lovelock, Robert G. Jones and Peter Licence
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01240H, Paper

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Inorganic Chemistry Awards Symposium – Belfast, Feb 9th 2011

A Dalton Division symposium highlighting 2010 Prize and Award winners will be held in Belfast on the 9th February this year. The symposium will feature talks by Malcolm Chisholm (Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry), Anna Company-Casadevall (Dalton Young Researcher’s Award), Simon Aldridge (Main Group Chemistry Award) and Jonathan Steed (Corday-Morgan Prize). More info available here.

When?   09 February 2011 13:30 – 18:00
Where?  Queens University Belfast, UK
Contact? Dr M Cristina Lagunas-Castedo

Find out more about these RSC Award winners by reading some of their research here:

Tripodal imidazole frameworks: Reversible vapour sorption both with and without significant structural changes
Charlotte E. Willans, Sara French, Kirsty M. Anderson, Leonard J. Barbour, Jan-André Gertenbach, Gareth O. Lloyd, Robert J. Dyer, Peter C. Junk and Jonathan W. Steed
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 573-582 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01011A, Paper

Concerning the photophysical properties of Re24+ and Re26+ carboxylate compounds
Brian G. Alberding, Malcolm H. Chisholm, Judith C. Gallucci, Terry L. Gustafson, Carly R. Reed and Claudia Turro
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11587-11593 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00968G, Paper

Bulky guanidinato and amidinato zinc complexes and their comparative stabilities
Cameron Jones, Leigh Furness, Sharanappa Nembenna, Richard P. Rose, Simon Aldridge and Andreas Stasch
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 8788-8795 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00589D, Paper

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Top Ten most-read Dalton Transactions articles in November

Read the most-read Dalton Transactions articles of November 2010, listed below:

C. N. R. Rao, S. R. C. Vivekchand, Kanishka Biswas and A. Govindaraj, Dalton Trans., 2007, 3728-3749
DOI: 10.1039/B708342D
 
Dong Liu, Ni-Ya Li and Jian-Ping Lang, Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00931H
 
Sergey A. Sapchenko, Denis G. Samsonenko, Danil N. Dybtsev, Maxim S. Melgunov and Vladimir P. Fedin, Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00999G
 
Yuan Hu, Qian-qian Li, Hua Li, Qian-ni Guo, Yun-guo Lu and Zao-ying Li, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11344-11352
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00737D
 
Dong-Sheng Li, Feng Fu, Jun Zhao, Ya-Pan Wu, Miao Du, Kun Zou, Wen-Wen Dong and Yao-Yu Wang, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11522-11525
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00900H
 
Stéphanie Durot, Felipe Reviriego and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 10557-10570
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00457J
 
Bart M. J. M. Suijkerbuijk, Bas N. H. Aerts, Harm P. Dijkstra, Martin Lutz, Anthony L. Spek, Gerard van Koten and Robertus J. M. Klein Gebbink, Dalton Trans., 2007, 1273-1276
DOI: 10.1039/B701978P
 
Zuofeng Chen, Javier J. Concepcion and Thomas J. Meyer, Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01178A
 
Bastian Feldscher, Anja Stammler, Hartmut Bögge and Thorsten Glaser, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11675-11685
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00961J
 
Cai-Ming Liu, De-Qing Zhang and Dao-Ben Zhu, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 11325-11328
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01189D
  

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Hot Article: Mixing metals – a new molybdenum(VI)–rhenium(IV) complex

In this Dalton Transactions Hot Article read about a ReIV–MoVI compound which is the very first example of a heterodinuclear oxalato-bridged complex in the coordination chemistry of molybdenum. This communication will be FREE for you to access until the 2nd February.

Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic properties of an oxalato-bridged ReIVMoVI heterobimetallic complex
José Martínez-Lillo, Donatella Armentano, Giovanni De Munno, Francesc Lloret, Miguel Julve and Juan Faus
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01323D, Communication

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The Final Countdown: Top 10 most cited Dalton Transactions articles!

As you know, we are celebrating the journal’s 40th birthday by counting down the Top 40 most cited Dalton Transactions articles according to ISI*. Finally the moment to reveal the Top 10 is upon us! Drum roll please…..what is at number 1? Will it be Queen or The Beatles…. neither of course, but you can find out what exciting paper made it to this top spot below.

In addition all of these articles will be FREE for you to read until the end of January 2011.  Catch up on the rest of the Top 40 articles and find out more about our plans for Dalton Transactions 40th birthday celebrations here.


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Polymerization of lactide and related cyclic esters by discrete metal complexes
Brendan J. O’Keefe, Marc A. Hillmyer and William B. Tolman
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2001, 2215-2224 DOI: 10.1039/B104197P, Perspective

9 The rational design of high symmetry coordination clusters
Dana L. Caulder and Kenneth N. Raymond
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 1185-1200 DOI: 10.1039/A808370C, Paper

8 Highly active metallocene catalysts for olefin polymerization
Walter Kaminsky
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1998, 1413-1418 DOI: 10.1039/A800056E, Perspective

7 Getting excited about lanthanide complexation chemistry
David Parker and J. A. Gareth Williams
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1996, 3613-3628 DOI: 10.1039/DT9960003613, Paper

6 EQNMR: a computer program for the calculation of stability constants from nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift data
Michael J. Hynes
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1993, 311-312 DOI: 10.1039/DT9930000311, Paper

5 A net-based approach to coordination polymers
Richard Robson
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3735-3744 DOI: 10.1039/B003591M, Perspective

4 The phase behaviour of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborates; ionic liquids and ionic liquid crystals
John D. Holbrey and Kenneth R. Seddon
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 2133-2140 DOI: 10.1039/A902818H, Paper

3 Cationic Group 4 metallocene complexes and their role in polymerisation catalysis: the chemistry of well defined Ziegler catalysts
Manfred Bochmann
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1996, 255-270 DOI: 10.1039/DT9960000255, Paper

2 Engineering coordination polymers towards applications
Christoph Janiak
Dalton Trans., 2003, 2781-2804 DOI: 10.1039/B305705B, Perspective

1 A critical account on π–π stacking in metal complexes with aromatic nitrogen-containing ligands
Christoph Janiak
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3885-3896 DOI: 10.1039/B003010O, Paper

*Top cited articles according to ISI on the 17th November 2010 – please note our ISI data includes articles published from 1993-2010 only.

Some of our Top 40 authors such as Xiao-Ming Chen, Christoph Janiak and Keith Murray have already posted stories about their Top 40 papers on the blog. Why not join them in the discussion by posting your thoughts on our Top 10! 

Why do you think these papers have been so highly cited? Do you remember when these articles were first published? Perhaps they had an impact on your own research? We’d love to find out more – tell us by posting a comment on the blog in the box below……

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HOT Article: Luminescent drug delivery of ibuprofen

In this Dalton Transactions Hot article, calcium silicate microparticles doped with rare earth ions were loaded with ibuprofen and tested for their drug delivery properties.

The microparticles showed strong luminescence, which increased as the ibuprofen was released, allowing the drug delivery to be monitored, a highly useful property in therapeutics.

Preparation of luminescent and mesoporous Eu3+/Tb3+ doped calcium silicate microspheres as drug carriers via a template route
Xiaojiao Kang, Shanshan Huang, Piaoping Yang, Ping’an Ma, Dongmei Yang and Jun Lin
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01390K, Paper

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