We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2023 Outstanding Paper Award.
The Outstanding Paper Award is aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. The process for selecting the winner involves the shortlisting of papers published in the journal within the previous year based on nominations by members of the Editorial Board as well as a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score and citations. The Editorial Board then votes on this shortlist to select the winner.
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Construction of Pd-based coordination cages with three geometrically distinct ligands Ru-Jin Li, Jean de Montmollin, Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, Rosario Scopelliti and Kay Severin* Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6451-6456 |
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In this outstanding article, the authors combined three different dipyridyl ligands with [Pd(CH3CN)4](BF4)2 to give mixtures of homo- and/or heteroleptic coordination cages. They found that the structural flexibility of ligands with alkynyl spacers were important for the formation of the heteroleptic complexes.
Meet the authors of this outstanding paper
| Kay Severin
Kay Severin is professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research group works on synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry, with projects ranging from small molecule activation (the chemistry of laughing gas) to the construction of functional nanostructures. |
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Ru-Jin Li
Ru-Jin Li obtained his PhD in 2019 from TU Dortmund under the supervision of Prof. Guido H. Clever. He then continued his passion in supramolecular chemistry as postdoctoral researcher in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Prof. Kay Severin. Since 2023, He joined China BlueChemical Ltd. (“CBC”), a modern large-scale enterprise under China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”). He currently focuses on developing environmentally friendly technologies for the Marine Gas industry, and sustainable technologies for direct air capture (DAC) and CO2 conversion. |
| Jean de Montmollin
Jean de Montmollin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Sciences with majors in Chemistry and Materials Science from ETH Zürich. During his studies, he conducted research projects in the field of organic and inorganic chemistry under Prof. Antonio Togni (aryl-SF2CF3 compounds), Prof. Bill Morandi (ambiphilic ligands) and Prof. Maksym Kovalenko (metal-organic frameworks). Since 2022 he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Kay Severin on palladium-based metal-organic cages of low symmetry. |
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Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani
Farzaneh obtained her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2013. During her PhD and a post-doctoral stay at EPFL, she discovered her passion for crystallography. In 2016, she began working for ISIC and became tenured in 2019. She is routinely solving structures of small molecules, supramolecular assemblies and MOFs. She is particularly interested in phase transitions of perovskites and modulated organic molecules. She also enjoys teaching and training the users of the Open Access Facility at the EPFL. |
| Rosario Scopelliti
Rosario Scopelliti was born in 1967 in Italy and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Messina (Italy). He moved the same year to the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), working in Carlo Floriani’s group, mainly taking care about crystal structures. He joined EPFL (Switzerland) in 2001 and has been working – since then – in the XRD service of the school. |
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