Happy New Year from the Dalton Transactions Editorial Office!
In 2025, Dalton Transactions published 48 issues with over 1600 articles, including over 110 Frontier and Perspectives review articles, from 56 countries. With our articles receiving a total of over 2.4 million downloads within 90 days of being published, our articles have excellent visibility.
We are delighted to share with you some highlights from Dalton Transactions in 2025, including our Outstanding Paper Award winners, a new Associate Editor, themed collections, and our most popular articles from the year.
2024 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award Winners
The Outstanding Paper Award is an award aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. This year’s winners were Maximilian Dietz, Merle Arrowsmith and Holger Braunschweig for their paper:
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CAAC-stabilised 9,10-diboraanthracene: an electronically and structurally flexible platform for small-molecule activation and metal complexation
Maximilian Dietz, Merle Arrowsmith and Holger Braunschweig* Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 449-453 |
In this outstanding article, the authors explored new reaction patterns of a doubly CAAC-stabilised 9,10-diboraanthracene derivative with small molecules and highlighted the structural and electronic flexibility of this framework through complexation with group 6 carbonyls.
New Associate Editor: Dinorah Gambino
| In 2025, Dinorah Gambino from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, joined our Editorial Board as an Associate Editor. Dinorah’s research is in bioinorganic chemistry and specifically focuses on the development of new metal-based drugs for the treatment of neglected diseases caused by trypanosomatid parasites.
Our international Editorial Board is made up of 13 high-profile researchers across 12 countries worldwide with a wide range of expertise covering inorganic chemistry. Find out more about our Editorial Board members, here.
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Themed Collections
Explore the themed collections we have launched in 2025.
Read now:
| Nitrogen Ligands | Guest Editors: Gabriel Canard, Aix-Marseille University, and Olivier Siri, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS |
| Main Group Element Compounds in Materials and Catalysis | Guest Editors: Eric Rivard, University of Alberta, Selvarajan Nagendran, IIT Delhi, and Ramaswamy Murugavel, IIT Bombay |
| Spotlight Collection: Mixed-Anion Compounds | Guest Editors: Maarit Karppinen, Aalto University, Simon Clarke, University of Oxford, and Teruki Motohashi, Kanagawa University |
| Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025: Women in Inorganic Chemistry | Highlighting a selection of articles published in Dalton Transactions in 2024 and 2025 led by women scientists around the world. |
Be part of our next Themed Collection:
| Inorganic Nanomaterials
Submission deadline: 19th January 2026 |
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If you would like to contribute to the above collection, please email dalton-rsc@rsc.org.
2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dalton Transactions authors Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their development of a new form of molecular architecture – metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). In celebration of this, we launched our MOFs: Three Decades of Design and Discovery collection.
Most popular articles from 2025
We are pleased to share a selection of our most popular articles from 2025 – all free to access until July 2026.
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ZIF-8 metal–organic frameworks and their hybrid materials: emerging photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications (Open Access)
Diptirani Behera, Priyanka Priyadarshini and Kulamani Parida* Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 2681-2708 |
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| A terahertz band multifunctional metamaterial transmission–absorption switching device based on vanadium dioxide
Xinmei Wang, Xianding He, Chaojun Tang*, Bin Shui and Zao Yi* Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 5494-5501 |
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Rationalization of the structural, electronic and photophysical properties of silver(i) halide n-picolylamine hybrid coordination polymers (Open Access)
Caterina Zuffa, Daniele Veclani, Marianna Marchini, Filippo Monti*, Chiara Cappuccino, Lucia Maini* and Barbara Ventura Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 2799-2811 |
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| Two-fold proton coupled electron transfer of a Ta(v) aniline complex mediated by a redox active NNN pincer ligand (Open Access)
Sotirios Pavlidis, Jasmin Alasadi, Amanda Opis-Basilio and Josh Abbenseth* Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 2421-2429 |
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Unveiling the multifaceted bioactivity of copper(ii)–Schiff base complexes: a comprehensive study of antioxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, enzyme inhibition and cytotoxic potentials with DFT insights
T. M. Dhanya, M. R. Prathapachandra Kurup, K. J. Rajimon, G. Anjali Krishna, Jibin K. Varughese, K. G. Raghu, Sachin Philip, K. M. Divya, Maria Augustine and P. V. Mohanan* Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 3216-3234 |
Dalton Transactions published our first Tutorial Reviews
| Assessment methods for identifying suitable charge carriers for non-aqueous redox flow batteries
Mamta Dagar* and Ellen M. Matson* Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 10164-10177 |
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Fluorescence spectroscopy: detection and sensing of SO2 and H2S using MOFs and other emerging porous materials (Open Access)
Marco L. Martínez, Pablo Marín-Rosas, Valeria B. López-Cervantes, Ariel Guzmán-Vargas, Ricardo A. Peralta*, Diego Solis-Ibarra* and Ilich A. Ibarra*
Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 13806-13819 |
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| A practical guide to measuring and reporting photophysical data (Open Access)
Vinh Q. Dang and Thomas S. Teets*
Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 16268-16284 |
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Dalton Transactions annual cover competition
This year Dalton Transactions introduced three new awards to celebrate the cover artworks published in the journal from the previous year. These awards were voted for by the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board, our Editorial Office and the inorganic community via social media.
Check out the 2024 winners below.
Winner of the 2024 Dalton Transactions’ Best Cover Award, chosen by our Editorial Board:
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Electroanalytical characterization of Np(vi)/Np(v) redox in a pentadentate ligand environment and stabilization of [NpVO2]+ by hydrogen bonding (Open Access)
Emily R. Mikeska, T. Davis Curry, Richard E. Wilson* and James D. Blakemore*
Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 19126-19142 |
Winner of the 2024 Dalton Transactions’ Best Cover Award, chosen by our Editorial Office:
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Oxidation-derived anticancer potential of sumanene–ferrocene conjugates (Open Access)
Artur Kasprzak*, Agnieszka Zuchowska, Pawel Romanczuk, Agata Kowalczyk, Ireneusz P. Grudzinski, Anna Malkowska, Anna M. Nowicka and Hidehiro Sakurai
Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 56-64 |
Winner of the 2024 Dalton Transactions’ Best Cover Award, chosen by the Dalton Transactions community:
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On the mechanism of action of arsenoplatins: arsenoplatin-1 binding to a B-DNA dodecamer (Open Access)
Romualdo Troisi, Gabriella Tito, Giarita Ferraro, Filomena Sica, Lara Massai, Andrea Geri, Damiano Cirri, Luigi Messori and Antonello Merlino*
Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 3476-3483 |
Be sure to cast your vote for this year’s best cover award!
We would like to thank our authors, reviewers, Editorial and Advisory Board members and the wider Dalton Transactions community for your continued support of our journal and wish you all the best for 2026.
