Archive for September, 2010

Meet the team at Dalton Discussion 12

Ruth Doherty, Dalton Transactions Deputy Editor

Dalton Transactions  is proud to attending and publishing an associated Themed Issue with Dalton Discussion 12: Catalytic C-H and C-X Bond Activation (DD12), taking place at Durham University from 13th to the 15th of September 2010.

We are also delighted to be able to sponsor a Dalton Transactions poster prize to be awarded at the meeting.  There will also be a poster prize sponsored by our new journal, Catalysis Science & Technology .

DD12 is being jointly organised by the RSC Dalton and Organic Divisions and will bring together the organic, organometallic, and inorganic (coordination chemistry) communities from academia and industry to discuss the current state of the art, the development and future of late metal-catalysed cross-coupling strategies of C-X and C-H bonds.

I will be attending DD12 so please do have a chat with me if you are also there, I’d love to hear from you.

If you will be attending DD12 let me know by email to dohertyr@rsc.org or by leaving a comment below.

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Hot Article: hexacoordinate silicon complexes

In this hot article from Tacke and coworkers on the coordination chemistry of silicon, they describe new hexacoordinate silicon complexes including some scarcely reported silicon amidinate complexes:

Novel neutral hexacoordinate silicon(IV) complexes with two bidentate monoanionic benzamidinato ligands
Konstantin Junold, Christian Burschka, Rüdiger Bertermann and Reinhold Tacke 
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00391C, Paper

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OLEDs need gentle treatment

OLEDs have found use in mobile phones but researchers are still searching for better emitters

A popular fabrication technique for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) may be having a negative impact on performance, say European scientists.

Read Yuandi Li’s news article on this hot Dalton Transactions paper at Highlights in Chemical Science or access the full article:

An inconvenient influence of iridium(III) isomer on OLED efficiency
Etienne Baranoff, Henk J. Bolink, Filippo De Angelis, Simona Fantacci, Davide Di Censo, Karim Djellab, Michael Grätzel and Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Dalton Trans., 2010
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00414f

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Hot Article: Pretty perovskite with potential multiferroic properties

Roland Tellgren and colleagues discuss the magnetic properties of the complex perovskite Pb2CoTeO6 in this Dalton Transactions Hot Article:

Structural and magnetic properties of the ordered perovskite Pb2CoTeO6
S. A. Ivanov, P. Nordblad, R. Mathieu, R. Tellgren and C. Ritter,
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00558d, Paper

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Hot Article: controversial carbene coordination chemistry

In this hot article Robert Mulvey and colleagues investigate the coordination chemistry of NHC with s-block elements and the structural chemistry of organomagnesium compounds leading to some interesting discoveries:

N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents: trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs
Alan R. Kennedy, Robert E. Mulvey and Stuart D. Robertson
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00693A, Paper

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