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Earlier this year the 67th conference of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) was held at Hokkaido University, co-organised by The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). Including both fundamental and applied work on synthesis and properties of coordination compounds, encompassing organometallics and bioinorganic chemistry, the event was a huge success with over 1000 attendees. More than 150 talks, in English and in Japanese, were given over three days, including Award Lectures by world-renowned academics, including Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley), Yoshiaki Nishibayashi (University of Toyko), Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University), and Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge).

A number of presentation slots were also allocated to students, and the RSC was on-hand to offer poster prizes.  This marks the eighth year running that Dalton Transactions and CrystEngComm have awarded prizes at this event, and this year also saw the presentation of the inaugural Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers awards. Out of a total of 460 poster presentations, the award winners were:

		The Dalton Transactions award for outstanding poster presentation goes to Shuji Akinaga, in the group of Makoto Fujita at The University of Toyko, for his poster entitled “Inner-functionalization of crystalline meso-porous peptide complexes“
		The CrystEngComm award for outstanding poster presentation goes to Masashi Fujimura, in the group of Ryotaro Matsuda, for his poster entitled “溶存酸素吸着を実現する光応答性ナノポーラス金属錯体の設計“
		An Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award for outstanding poster presentation went to Shuto Mochizuki, in the group of Takashi Uemura at Kyoto University, for his poster entitled “Fabrication of ultrathin polymer films using metal-organic frameworks with 2-D nanospace“
		An Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award for outstanding poster presentation went to Yoshiyuke Takemoto, of Nagoya Institute of Technology, for his poster entitled “Catalytic silylation of N2 by use of T-shaped cobalt complex bearing iminophosphorane ligands“

The winners were given an RSC heat-sensitive mug as seen in the photo above of Yoshiyuke Takemoto – who we hope doesn’t drink coffee while using that solvent drying system!

The RSC offers its hearty congratulations to all the winners!

This August the Universities of Scotland Inorganic Chemistry Conference 2017 (USIC 2017) was held at the University of St Andrews, to great success. It brings together inorganic chemistry students from Scotland and the north of England and featured internationally renowned keynote speakers Claire J. Carmalt, Andrew Goodwin, Robert Tooze, and Piet van Leeuwen as well as a number of speaking slots reserved for student talks.

The Dalton Transaction prize for best oral presentation was given to Alice Bumstead at the University of St Andrews for her talk Modulator-Mediated Synthesis and Structural Transformations of an Interpenetrated Zirconium MOF. The prize for best poster presentation was awarded to Reuben Leveson-Gower, a recent graduate of Durham University, for his poster entitled Novel Iridium (III) Pincer Complexes. Dalton Transactions offers a huge congratulations to both winners!

	Alice Bumstead (left) and Reuben Leveson-Gower (right) being presented their awards by Dr Petr Kilian (University of St Andrews)

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.

The RSC library at Burlington House recently hosted the Dalton Division Southern Regional Meeting. Organised by Professor Manfred Bochmann, Dr John Fielden, and Dr Joseph Wright from the University of East Anglia, the Meeting provided an opportunity for PhD and post-doctoral researchers from ten local institutions to exchange ideas and research results on all aspects of coordination, inorganic, organometallic, and bioinorganic chemistry. Dalton Transactions‘ Deputy Editor, Mike Andrews, was on hand to present poster prizes. Congratulations go to:

Lucy Currie, from University of East Anglia, for her poster Thiol Triggered Photodeauration and Reductive Elimination from Gold(III) Pincer Complexes		Jonathan Robson, from Imperial College London, for his poster Water-soluble ruthenium vinyl probes for rapid fluorescence visualisation of CO in cells

The joint 21^st biennial European Chemical Vapor Deposition conference and the 15^th International Baltic Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition was held recently at Linköping, Sweden. The conference boasted a series of international renowned invited speakers, as well as a full schedule of oral and poster presentations by graduate and post-doctoral researchers on wide range of topics. Three such researchers were awarded Dalton Transactions poster prizes. Congratulations go to:

Peter Kubiak, working at the University of Bath, for the poster Deposition of Calcium Sulfide Based Materials via AA-CVD
	Francesca Visentin, working at the University of Padova, for the poster Morphological, structural and tribocorrosion behaviour of TiO2 MOCVD coating on Ti substrates with different morphology
Andreas Werbrouck, working at Ghent University, for the poster PE-ALD of lithium aluminum silicon oxide solid electrolyte layers using LiHMDS

More information about the conference can be found here.

Registration is now open for the Universities of Scotland Inorganic Chemistry Conference (USIC) 2017. The conference brings together inorganic chemistry postgraduates from Scottish universities along with Newcastle and Durham. This year the conference is to be held over two days, 29^th – 30^th August at the University of St Andrews.

Featuring keynote speakers:

Professor Claire J. Carmalt, University College London

Professor Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford

Professor Robert Tooze, Sasol UK Ltd

Professor Piet van Leeuwen, Institut National des sciences appliquées -Toulouse

There are also a number of speaking slots available to student delegates, as well as the opportunity to share research in the form of a poster presentation.

Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 31^st July

For more information, visit the website at: http://usic2017.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Registration is now open for the RSC Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry Discussion Group Meeting. The group is devoted to supporting the scientific interests of researchers involved with any aspect of coordination and organometallic chemistry as broadly defined. This year the meeting is being held at Lancaster University, 14^th – 15^th September. Featuring internationally renowned speakers, including:

Professor Jose Goicoechea, University of Oxford

Professor Evia Hevia, University of Strathclyde

Professor Eric Meggers, University of Marburg

Professor Grace Morgan, University College Dublin

Dr Rachel Platel, Lancaster University

Professor Mike Ward, University of Sheffield/University of Warwick

 
The programme is open to additional speakers, with contributions from younger members of the inorganic community being particularly encouraged. To be considered for a presentation, please submit your request with an abstract for consideration by the organising committee.

The submission deadline for Oral abstracts is 30^th of June, the submission deadline for poster abstracts and standard registration deadline is 31^st of July. For more information, visit the meeting website.

The 2016 Journal Citation Reports® have just been released and we are pleased to  announce that Dalton Transactions received an Impact Factor of  4.029.

We would like to thank all our authors, referees and readers who have contributed to this success, as well our Editorial and Advisory Boards for their hard work and continued support. Because of you, Dalton Transactions has maintained its position as the largest publisher of high quality fundamental research across the fields of inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

We invite you to submit your best work to Dalton Transactions!

Here are the top five articles that contributed to the 2016 Impact Factor. All of these articles will be free to access for 4 weeks.

You are cordially invited to the 3rd Southern Dalton Meeting in Burlington House on 28 June, the regional meeting on all aspects of coordination, organometallic and inorganic chemistry

This meeting is in particular directed at PhD students, postdocs and younger members of staff and provides an ideal opportunity to present new results and to get to know one another in a congenial and informal atmosphere, in the pleasant surroundings of the RSC Library Suite. There will be a poster and talk competition, with sponsored prizes for the best contributions.

More details can be found on the meeting website. Registration deadline is June 7th.