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Professor Philip P. Power (University of California, Davis) turned 65 in April 2018 and in honour of this anniversary and his immense influence on the field of organometallic chemistry we’re pleased to introduce a new cross-journal themed collection. 

Guest edited by Roland C. Fischer, Michael S. Hill, and David J. Liptrot, the collection brings together 27 of Professor Power’s key RSC papers with specially commissioned work for Dalton Transactions and Chem. Commun. by over 45 by his coworkers and protégés.

Read the editorial, in which the guest editors give an overview of Professor Power’s career and highlight some of his contributions to the study of low coordinate systems, multiple bonding, small molecule activation, and London dispersion forces, or read on to check out some of the many hot articles inspired by his work.

1,3,2-Diazaborole-derived carbene complexes of boron

Hunter P. Hickox, Yuzhong Wang, Kaitlin M. Luedecke, Yaoming Xie, Pingrong Wei, Deidrah Carrillo, Nathaniel L. Dominique, Dongtao Cui, Henry F. Schaefer, III and Gregory H. Robinson

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 41-44 10.1039/C7DT04079B   1,3,2-Diazaborole-derived carbene complexes of boron were synthesized via 1,2-hydrogen migration.

A snapshot of inorganic Janovsky complex analogues featuring a nucleophilic boron center

Di Wu, Yongxin Li, Rakesh Ganguly and Rei Kinjo 

Neutral two-dimensional organometallic–organic hybrid polymers based on pentaphosphaferrocene, bipyridyl linkers and CuCl

M. Elsayed Moussa, B. Attenberger, E. V. Peresypkina and  M. Scheer 

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 1014-1017 10.1039/C7DT04286H   The reaction of the Pn ligand complex [Cp*Fe(η5-P5)] (1: Cp* = η5-C5Me5) with CuCl in the presence of 4,4′-bipyridine or 1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene leads to the formation of three unprecedented neutral 2D organometallic–organic hybrid networks.

C–H and H–H activation at a di-titanium centre

Nikolaos Tsoureas, Jennifer C. Green and  F. Geoffrey N. Cloke 

Divergent reactivity of nucleophilic 1-bora-7a-azaindenide anions

Matthew M. Morgan, J. Mikko Rautiainen, Warren E. Piers, Heikki M. Tuononen and Chris Gendy 

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 734-741 10.1039/C7DT04350C   The reactions of 1-bora-7a-azaindenide anions, prepared in moderate to excellent yields by reduction of the appropriate 1-bora-7a-azaindenyl chlorides with KC8 in THF, with alkyl halides and carbon dioxide were studied.

Carbodiimides as catalysts for the reduction of a cadmium hydride complex

D. J. Webb, C. M. Fitchett, M. Lein and J. R. Fulton

All articles in this collection will be free to access until the 19th of June. 

The 2017 Dalton Transactions University of California, Berkeley Lecture is Professor Jillian L Dempsey, at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Lecture recognizes independent early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry.

The academic selected to give the lecture receives the opportunity to present at UC Berkeley, a plaque, a $500 honorarium, a dinner and an invitation to publish in Dalton Transactions.

Jillian Dempsey (center) receiving her award plaque from Dalton Transactions Editorial Board Chair John Arnold (left) and Executive Editor Andrew Shore (right)

Professor Dempsey’s lecture was entitled Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels:

Jillian began her career with a degree at MIT, with undergraduate research supervised by Daniel G. Nocera, and went on to do a PhD with Harry Gray at Caltech. This was followed by a post-doc with Daniel R Gamelin before she began her independent career at UNC.

We spoke to Professor Dempsey about what drew her to a career in research:

And when asked about the secret behind her successful publication record, she had this advice to offer:

Previous recipients include Kit Cummins, John Hartwig, Geoff Coates, Paul Chirik, Dan Mindiola, Teri Odom, Daniel Gamelin, Trevor Hayton, Christine Thomas, Mircea Dinca, and Alison Fout.

An online collection of recent Dalton Transactions papers by recipients of the lecture can be found here.

Graphical abstract of Jillian L Dempsey’s recent publication in Dalton Transactions. DOI: 10.1039/c6dt00302h

Last month saw the occasion of the 15^th European Workshop in Phosphorus Chemistry (EWPC). Hosted by Andreas Orthaber and Editorial Board member Sascha Ott at Uppsala University, and Chris Slootweg at University of Amsterdam, the workshop featured internationally renowned keynote speakers alongside a large number of speaking slots reserved for PhD students. 

The event was a huge success, and Dalton Transactions & Wiley were on hand to offer awards to exceptional early career researchers.

Dalton Transactions Award for Best Chair: Tobias Eder (University of Muenster)       Dalton Transactions Outstanding Oral Presentations: Gabriele Hierlmeier (University of Regensburg) Zita Radai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)     Dalton Transactions Outstanding Poster Presentation: Pawel Löwe (University of Muenster)     Wiley Outstanding Poster Presentation:  Nicolas D’Imperio (Uppsala University)

We’d like to offer all a hearty congratulations to all prize winners. For more information about the event, including photos of the award presentations, see the event webpages:

http://www.kemi.uu.se/ewpc15/