James Odendal from the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Stellenbosch, SA was awarded a Dalton Transactions poster prize at the recent 15th Inorganic Chemistry Conference in Johannesburg.
The title of his paper was “Investigating Intra- and Intermolecular Bond Displacement in Dication Hexahaloplatinate (IV) Salts as a Function of Temperature using Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction and 195Pt Solid-state NMR”, which James wrote with his co-authors LJ Barbour and KR Koch.
The conference was part of the 40th South African Chemical Institute convention, the first event planned by IUPAC and UNESCO celebrating the International Year of Chemistry. A summary of this highly successful occasion can be found in the SACI newsletter.
James has recently been published as the first author in Delia A. Haynes paper in the New Talent issue of CrystEngComm, read the full article:
Packing motifs in organic ammonium carboxylate salts: extension of the ring-stacking and ring-laddering concepts
James A. Odendal, Jocelyn C. Bruce, Klaus R. Koch and Delia A. Haynes
CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 2398-2408
DOI: 10.1039/C000922A, Paper
