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Jonathan Nitschke announced as the 2011 Dalton Transactions European/African Lecturer

We are very pleased to announce that the 2011 Dalton Transactions European/African Lectureship has been awarded to Professor Jonathan Nitschke, based in the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Dr Jonathan Nitschke

Jonathan’s research output in terms of quality and quantity is extraordinary. In his first four years as an independent researcher, he published 16 papers on Cu(I) mediated assembly processes in high impact journals, a significant achievement when starting up an independent lab.  During his time at Cambridge University, he has focussed his research on how to manipulate complex mixtures of interchanging compounds, and the useful functions exhibited by these new systems. Read more about Jonathan’s research here.

Jonathan will be giving his Dalton Transactions Lecture at a number of conferences during the next 12 months.

Congratulations Jonathan!


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Highest ever Immediacy Index for Dalton Transactions

The 2010 Journal Citation Reports have recently been published by Thomson ISI, and the immediacy index for Dalton Transactions was announced to be a record high value for the journal, leading the field with a value of 0.81!  Published alongside the more well known impact factors, the immediacy index is considered to be a measure of how topical and urgent the work in a journal is.

Dalton Transactions’ latest impact factor was also published, as 3.65, representing a more than 20% growth in impact factor over the last 5 years!

The Impact Factor for 2010 is calculated from the total number of citations given in 2010 to articles published in 2008 and 2009, divided by the number of articles published in 2008 and 2009.

The Immediacy Index for 2010 is calculated from the total number of citations given in 2010 to articles published in 2010, divided by the number of articles published in 2010.

We thank all our authors and referees who continue to supported the journal. Please visit our website to learn more about Dalton Transactions, or submit an article today.

Information about the latest impact factors for other RSC journals is available here.

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New Dalton Transactions Associate Editor, Dan Mindiola

I am delighted to announce that Professor Dan Mindiola based at Indiana University at Bloomington in the USA has recently joined the Dalton Transactions team as Associate Editor.  

Dan will join the journal’s three existing Associate Editors, Professor John Arnold based at University of California, Berkeley, USA, Professor Guo-Xin Jin at Fudan University, China and Professor Russell Morris from St. Andrew’s University in the UK.

From June 2011 you will be able to submit your manuscripts to Dan for consideration in the journal using our online submission system.

Dan’s research work entails the design and assembly of reactive metal complexes of early metals and their role in unusual transformations such as C-H activation and C-N bond cleavage reactions. He is also interested in novel catalytic processes mediated by reactive complexes containing metal-ligand multiple bonds.

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 Find out more about Dan’s work  research at his website and check out some of his recent papers below:

Ba L. Tran, Debashis Adhikari, Hongjun Fan, Maren Pink and Daniel J. Mindiola
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 358-360
DOI: 10.1039/B912040H, Communication
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Jennifer Scott and Daniel J. Mindiola
Dalton Trans., 2009, 8463-8472
DOI: 10.1039/B908684F, Perspective
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Swedish inorganic chemists to assemble in Stenungsund

To celebrate the recent  formation of the Inorganic Section of the Swedish Chemical Society, a conference, open to everyone,  will take place in June this year.

The conference will run from 13th to 15th June, in the coastal town of Stenungsund in Sweden, which has a history dating back to the first century, and a more recent history as an important centre for the petrochemical industry.

The confirmed speakersfor the meeting are:

Roland A. Fischer, Ruhr University,  Bochum, Germany

Kersti Hermansson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Staffan Sjöberg, Umeå University, Sweden

Belén Martín-Matute, Stockholms University, Sweden

Licheng Sun, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Sven Lidin, Lund University, Sweden

Matti Haukka, University of  Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Christina Lundmark, Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Sweden

Robert Onsander, IVA and the chemical companies of Stenungsund (vision 2030), Sweden

Lennart Sjölin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Göran Svensson, chairman of Swedish Society of Chemical Engineers, Sweden

Since 2000, RSCPublishing has been pleased to incorporate the journal  Acta Chemica Scandinavica in Dalton Transactions.

Further details about this conference are available from the organiser, Professor Lars Ohrstrom

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Dalton Transactions International Symposium a resounding success!

The successful 2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium took place in China last week.  The Symposium, organised as a joint venture between Dalton Transactions and the RSC International Programme, took place over two days, in two venues in Asia. The first day of the Symposium (16th November) was organised as part of the 11th Conference on Solid State Chemistry and Inorganic Synthesis, held in Shanghai.  Professor Jiesheng Chen from the host university, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was the local organiser, and his meticulous planning ensured the smooth running of the event.

2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium

2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium

An impressive line of speakers provided an excellent day of presentations, highlighting some of the best inorganic chemistry being researched today.

The speakers in Shanghai

The speakers in Shanghai

Professor Lee Cronin

Professor Lee Cronin

Professor Annie Powell (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) began the day with an account of her work on the use of coordination chemistry to construct nanostructured materials from a bottom up approach.  Annie was followed by Professor Song Gao (Peking University, China), who introduced some of his work on single molecule magnets.  Professor Hiroki Oshio (University of Tsukuba, Japan) then took us up to lunchtime with his inspiring presentation on multinuclear magnetic complexes.  After lunch, Professor Yong Zhao presented the work he has been doing with Professor Lei Jiang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow, UK) ended the day with a fascintating presentation on his work on adaptive inorganic materials.

Three of the speakers (Professors Cronin, Oshio and Powell) then travelled to Hong Kong, for the second day of the Symposium (18th November).  Hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the speakers were joined by three local speakers, Professor Vivian Yam (University of Hong Kong) , who gave a fascintating presentation on her elegant research on  photofunctional metal-based molecular materials , Professor Zuowei Xie (Chinese University of Hong Kong) , who described his work with hypervalent carbon in metal-carbon bonds and Professor Wai Yeung Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University) ended the day with his presentation on the use of organometallic compounds for OLEDs .

The speakers in Hong Kong

The speakers in Hong Kong

Both events were very well attended, with a combined audience of over 400!  Many thanks to the local organisers, Professors Jiesheng Chen and Vivian Yam, to the speakers, and to all who attended and helped the Symposium to be a resounding success!

Watch this space for the announcement of the next Dalton Transactions International Symposium…

 

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship

ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

Deadline for nominations: 28th February 2011.

Visit the ChemComm blog for more information.

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2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium

I am delighted to announce details of the 2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium to be held in Shanghai and Hong Kong in November 2010.  This 2010 Symposium follows the very successful Symposium held in China in October 2009.  9 world class presentations (6 at each venue) will be given.

The 2nd Dalton Transactions International Symposium will take place in two venues.  16th November will see the Symposium hosted in Shanghai, as part of the 11th Conference on Solid State Chemistry and Inorganic Synthesis. The Symposium will then move to Hong Kong on 18th November.

Speaker details of both days of the Symposium are:

16th November 2010, in Shanghai:

  • Lee Cronin – University of Glasgow, UK 
  • Song Gao – Peking University, China    
  • Maochun Hong – Fujian Institute of the Research on the Structure of Matter, China
  • Lei Jiang – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Hiroki Oshio – University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Annie Powell – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany            

18th November 2010, in Hong Kong:

  • Lee Cronin – University of Glasgow, UK
  • Hiroki Oshio – University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Annie Powell – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 
  • Wai Yeung Wong – Hong Kong Baptist University, China  
  • Zuowei Xie – Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Vivian Yam – University of Hong Kong, China  

More information about the two days of the Symposium can be found here.

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IUPAC define hydrogen bond

An IUPAC task group has recently published their recommendations for the definition for the hydrogen bond.

“The hydrogen bond is an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecule or a molecular fragment X–H in which X is more electronegative than H, and an atom or a group of atoms in the same or a different molecule, in which there is evidence of bond formation.”

The recommendations continue with a list of experimental and theoretical criteria that can be used as evidence for the presence of the hydrogen bond, and finish with characteristics that are typical of hydrogen bonded systems.

For more information on the task group and to view the provisional recommendation see the IUPAC report.

Follow the links below to read two Dalton Transactions articles with a focus on bonding:

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New RSC Book Series: Metallobiology

The RSC have just announced an exciting new book series on metallobiology, to provide an insightful perspective on the role of metals in biology.   As Editor-in-Chief, Professor David Garner (University of Nottingham, UK) will lead the Editorial Board of this Book Series, working with Professor Hongzhe Sun (University of Hong Kong, China), Professor Ann Walker (University of Arizona, USA) and Professor Anthony Wedd (University of Melbourne, Australia).

The Series will include the following topics:

  • Binding, transport and storage of metal ions
  • Interactions of metal ions with biomolecules, including proteins, DNA, RNA and nucleotides
  • Metal-based pharmaceuticals, including delivery and function
  • Bioorganometallic chemistry
  • Metalloporphyrins
  • Biominerals, biomineralization, biomaterials and bionanomaterials
  • Metal-based disease states, infection and immunology
  • Metal toxicology
  • Environmental bioinorganic chemistry
  • Metalloproteins
  • Metalloenzymes, including DNAzymes and ribozymes
  • Metallomes of biological systems
  • Metallothioneins
  • Bioimaging and biosensing of metals
  • Speciation of metals in biological systems
  • Spectroscopic investigations of metals in biological systems
  • Structural studies of metalloenzymes, metalloproteins and other metal-containing biomolecules 

More information can be found on the RSC Books website  here.

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Nobel Congratulations to Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki

The 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Richard Heck (University of Delaware, USA), Ei-ichi Negishi (Purdue University, USA) and Akira Suzuki (Hokkaido University, Japan), ‘ for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis’.

Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling has had, and continues to have, a significant and wide reaching impact on research around the world, as well as in the commercial production of, e.g. pharmaceuticals and molecules for the electronics industry.

On behalf of the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board and Editorial Office, hearty congratulations, Richard, Ei-ichi and Akira!

Read Ei-ichi Negishi’s recent Dalton Transactions Perspective article, A quarter of a century of explorations in organozirconium chemistry, Dalton Trans., 2005, 827-848.

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