Dalton Transactions Blog

Dalton Transactions is pleased to sponsor the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) Award for Creative Work. The inaugural award was won by Professor Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, of The University of Tokyo, and was presented by Professor Hiroshi Nishihara, JSCC president, during the recent 67th Conference of JSCC at Hokkaido University.

	Right – Professor Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, JSCC Award for Creative Work winner,                   Left – Professor Hiroshi Nishihara, JSCC president,

Professor Nishibayashi gave an excellent award lecture entitled Development of Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation Using Transiition Metal-Dinitrogen Complexes. He has been at the University of Tokyo since 2005 and currently has 200 publications to his name. As well as the construction of molecular scaffolds for supporting dinuclear catalysts for nitrogen fixation, Professor Nishibayashi also studies the design and synthesis of transition metal catalysts for organic transformations. More information about his work can be found at his website.

Last week saw the Dalton Younger Members Event (DYME) held at the University of Bath. This is a free biennial event designed to support PhD students and post-doctoral researchers within the Inorganic community, providing presentation and networking opportunities for early career researchers in a relaxed and friendly setting.

The event was organised by Dr Jennifer Garden (University of Edinburgh) and Emma Sackville (University of Bath), the post-doctoral and PhD representatives of the RSC Dalton Division, and featured plenary talks by Robin Bedford, Rebecca Melen, and Geoff Spikes as well as a packed schedule of oral and poster presentations by PhD and post-doctoral researchers.

Dalton Transactions was on hand to offer prizes for the best oral and poster presentations. The winners were:

	Best Oral Presentations: Conrad Goodwin (University of Manchester) Alice Johnson (University of Zaragoza)   Best Poster Presentations: Jamie Hunter (University of Edinburgh) Kristine Laws (King’s College London) Gemma Trott (University of Oxford)
	L-R: Jennifer Garden,  Alice Johnson, Kristine Laws, Jamie Hunter, Conrad Goodwin, Gemma Trott, Emma Sackville

DYME alternates years with the Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed (MICRA) which will be hosted by Rebecca Melen next year at Cardiff University.