A chance to meet fellow postgraduates and postdocs from the wider UK inorganic community this year at the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium. The meeting, organised in associated with Johnson Matthey, is taking place in University of Warwick on 20-21 September 2011. Register and submit your abstract now for a chance to
Remember registration for the symposium is free of charge! More information available at the event webpage.
Register now! Abstract Deadline 22 July 2011
In this Dalton Transactions Hot Article, Maria-Angels Carvajal and colleagues probe the photomagnetic properties of a copper octacyanomolybdate complex using high level ab initio calculations.
The authors describe in detail the photomagnetic process arising from a local Mo d-d excitation in the complex. They also show that there is a small energy barrier for the reverse reaction and that it can be induced by light. They also investigate the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility and compare it with experimental values.
Photomagnetic materials are of interest as candidates for use in memory devices and optical switches.
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Insights on the photomagnetism in copper octacyanomolybdates
Maria-Angels Carvajal, Rosa Caballol and Coen de Graaf
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10120J, Paper
In this Dalton Transactions Hot Article, Graham Bowmaker from the University of Auckland and colleagues, synthesised three new disilver(I) carbonate/tertiary phosphine complexes.
Solution and mechanochemical methods were used. The use of the mechanochemical synthesis demonstrates an additional aspect of this type of method. The study also demonstrates the value of ATR IR and CPMAS NMR for monitoring the progress of mechanochemical synthesis.
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Solution and mechanochemical syntheses, and spectroscopic and structural studies in the silver(I) (bi-)carbonate: triphenylphosphine system
Graham A. Bowmaker, Effendy, John V. Hanna, Peter C. Healy, Scott P. King, Claudio Pettinari, Brian W. Skelton and Allan H. White
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10416K, Paper
Ms Aneheim flanked by conference organisers Prof Lars Öhrström, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (left) and Dr Christopher Knee, University of Gothenburg. Photo credit: Magnus T. Johnson
The inorganic chemistry division of the Swedish Chemical Society held their ‘Oorgdagar 2011’ last week. This meeting brings together researchers in inorganic chemistry, from organometallic chemistry to materials chemistry, in Sweden and Scandinavia. To find out more visit the inorganic chemistry division’s webpage, or see Jamie’s earlier blog.
Dalton Transactions was pleased to sponsor a poster prize at the meeting, which was awarded to Emma Aneheim, a phd student at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. Ms Aneheim’s poster was on ‘Palladium chemistry in the advanced reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel’. Find out more about her research by visiting Emma’s webpage at the Department of Nuclear Chemistry.
Conference organiser Prof Lars Öhrström was very enthusiastic about how well the meeting went, commenting ‘it was a great success with speakers from the UK, Germany, Finland, South Africa, France, USA as well as Sweden. The next (second) meeting will be held in Lund 2013’
Dalton Transactions is pleased to be sponsoring a poster prize at the 5th International Federation of European Zeolite Associations meeting in Valencia, Spain. This years conference is being hosted by the Spanish Zeolite group, with the theme ‘Innovations in Zeolites and ordered Porous Solids’.
The conference has an exciting list of plenary and keynote speakers including Ferdi Schüth, Étienne Duguet and Jihong Yu.
To find out more about the poster prize visit the FEZA 2011 website.
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Structure and pulsed EPR characterization of N,N‘-bis(5-tert-butylsalicylidene)-1,2-cyclohexanediamino-vanadium(IV) oxide and its adducts with propylene oxide
E. Carter, I. A. Fallis, B. M. Kariuki, I. R. Morgan, D. M. Murphy, T. Tatchell, S. Van Doorslaer and E. Vinck
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10378D
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New chemistry of 1,2-closo-P2B10H10 and 1,2-closo-As2B10H10; in silico and gas electron diffraction structures, and new metalladiphospha- and metalladiarsaboranes
R. McLellan, N. M. Boag, K. Dodds, D. Ellis, S. A. Macgregor, D. McKay, S. L. Masters, R. Noble-Eddy, N. P. Platt, D. W. H. Rankin, H. E. Robertson, G. M. Rosair and A. J. Welch
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10540J
A N^N Pt(II) bis(acetylide) complex containing coumarin was prepared in this Dalton Transactions Hot article.
The coordination chemistry of the complex was investigated to better understand its phosphorescence. Room temperature phosphorescence of coumarin has not previously been observed at room temperature, which is an exciting discovery.
The authors went on to use their complex as a sensitizer for triplet–triplet-annihilation based upconversion and luminescent oxygen sensing, with encouraging results.
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Coumarin phosphorescence observed with NN Pt(II) bisacetylide complex and its applications for luminescent oxygen sensing and triplet–triplet-annihilation based upconversion
Haiyang Sun, Huimin Guo, Wenting Wu, Xin Liu and Jianzhang Zhao
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10490J
Philippe F. Weck and colleagues from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA, use gradient-corrected density functional theory to look at the structures and properties of technetium nitride phases.
Technetium nitride is used in nuclear waste management, as nitride forms are a good way of storing technetium isotopes, a common by product of the nuclear fuel cycle, and also in nuclear medicine, where it acts a a radiopharmaceutical (if you are interested in radiopharmaceuticals, check out our recent themed issue)
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Interplay between structure, stoichiometry and properties of technetium nitrides
Philippe F. Weck, Eunja Kim and Kenneth R. Czerwinski
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10334B
Our Editorial Board member, Professor Ian Manners from Bristol University has been made a fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in the world, and being elected as a fellow is a great honour.
Professor Manners was recognised for his contributions to inorganic and materials chemistry. Read the full citation at the Royal Society’s webpage, or find out more about his research at the University of Bristol.
