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Abstract deadline TODAY for the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium

The abstract deadline for the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium is TODAY (Friday 22nd July). If you want to present a poster prize, or be considered for the oral presentation you need to register by the end of the day.

The symposium in a great opportunity to meet postgraduates and postdocs working in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, and registration is FREE of charge (accommodation and the conference dinner cost comes to just £67).

Registration for delegates who do not wish to present their work will remain open until 19th August.

How to submit an abstract:

  • Symposium delegates should register to attend the meeting by clicking on the ‘Registration‘ link on the meeting webpage (see the ‘In this section’ menu).
  • Delegates should then submit an abstract to present an oral or poster presentation by clicking on the ‘Call for Papers’ link on the meeting webpage (see the ‘In this section’ menu).

Visit the website and register now!

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Hot Article: Uranium and thorium as catalysts

In this Dalton Transactions Hot article Yu Gong and Lester Andrews from the University of Virgina, USA, look at  how laser-ablated thorium and uranium react with dimethyl ether molecules.

Uranium and thorium can activate chemical bonds, making them useful in catalysis, and here Gong and Andrews use density functional theory and matrix infrared spectroscopy to understand what types of reaction products can be obtained under different conditions.

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Matrix infrared spectroscopic and density functional theoretical investigations on thorium and uranium atom reactions with dimethyl ether
Yu Gong and Lester Andrews
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10725A

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Chinese Chemical Society 8th National Conference on Inorganic Chemistry

Dalton Transactions is sponsoring poster prizes at the Chinese Chemical Society’s inorganic chemistry conference in Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, next week.

Speakers include Lee Cronin, Rong Cao, Robin D. Rogers and Mitsuhiko Shionoya.

More information can be found at the conference website, or by visiting the Chinese Chemical Society’s website.

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Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium: Abstract deadline this Friday

The abstract deadline for the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium is on Friday (22nd July). If you want to present a poster prize, or be considered for the oral presentation you need to register before the end of the week.

The symposium in a great opportunity to meet postgraduates and postdocs working in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, and as registration is FREE of charge (accommodation and the conference dinner cost comes to just £67), this will be the best value meeting you attend all year!

How to submit an abstract:

  • Symposium delegates should register to attend the meeting by clicking on the ‘Registration‘ link on the meeting webpage (see the ‘In this section’ menu).
  • Delegates should then submit an abstract to present an oral or poster presentation by clicking on the ‘Call for Papers’ link on the meeting webpage (see the ‘In this section’ menu).

Registration for delegates who do not wish to present their work will remain open until 19th August.

Speakers include the 2010 Dalton Transactions Europe/Africa Lectureship Winner, Professor Karsten Meyer (
FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Dr Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge) and Dr Michaele Hardie (University of Leeds). More information available at the event webpage.

Don’t miss out, register today!

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Dalton Transactions sponsors a poster prize at FEZA 2011

Dalton Transactions was delighted to sponsor a poster prize at the 5th International FEZA conference in Spain earlier in July.

The prize was awarded to Shusuke Okada and colleagues for their poster presentation on ‘Enhancement of catalytic activity in one-pot oxidation using Pd/SiO2@Ti containing mesoporous silica core-shell type catalyst.’

The presentation was based on the work done in Professor Hiromi Yamashita’s lab at Osaka University. Professor Yamashita’s team work on nano-sized ecomaterials such as photocatalysts. To find out more about their research, visit their website.

The conference was chaired by Avelino Corma and Fernando Rey from ITQ, and included plenary lectures from Ryong Ryoo, Ferdi Schüth, Christian Serre, Michael Tsapatsis and Jihong Yu. Find out more by visiting the Federation of European Zeolite Associations website.

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ICIQ Summer School on organometallic catalysis

The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragonna, Spain, is running a summer school on organometallic catalysis next week.

The idea of the meeting is to bring together young researchers and distinguished chemists working in organometallic catalysis.

Dalton Transactions Managing Editor, Dr Jamie Humphrey,will be attending and speaking on how best to prepare an article for publication. Jamie will be joining a range of notable speakers including Profs Amos B. Smith III, John Hartwig, Paul Knochel and Polly Arnold. Visit the ICIQ Summer School webpage to find out more…

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Hot Article: Five-membered N,O-chelating metallacycles of early-transition metals

This Dalton Transactions Hot article investigates the intermolecular hydroamination of heteroatom-substituted allenes.

The addition of hydrogen-nitrogen bonds to carbon multiple bonds is an important reaction in organic synthesis, and here Laurel Schafter and Rashidat Oyinla from the University of British Columbia in Canada, use a transition metal catalyst to create five-membered N,O-chelating complexes.

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Intermolecular hydroamination of oxygen-substituted allenes. New routes for the synthesis of N,O-chelated zirconium and titanium amido complexes
Rashidat O. Ayinla and Laurel L. Schafer
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10448A

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Hot Article: Zinc complexes that act against drug resistant cancers

This Dalton Transactions Hot article looks at the use of zinc complexes in cancer treatment. This exciting compound, made by Soumitra Choudhuri and colleagues, was found to act against drug resistant cancers.

Read the full article for FREE to find out more about this anticancer compound…

An in vitro and in vivo study of a novel zinc complex, zinc N-(2-hydroxyacetophenone)glycinate to overcome multidrug resistance in cancer Ruma Dey Ghosh, Satyajit Das, Avishek Ganguly, Kaushik Banerjee, Paramita Chakraborty, Avijit Sarkar, Mitali Chatterjee, Ashis Nanda, Kiran Pradhan and Soumitra K. Choudhuri
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10501A

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Dalton Division Awards – Winners announced

The winners of this year’s Dalton Division Awards have now been announced in this month’s RSC News (please see Page 10 in July 01, 2011 issue of RSCNews)

Congratulations to Professor James Cowan (Bioinorganic Chemistry Award), Dr Elizabeth New (Dalton Young Researchers Award), Professor David Parker (Ludwig Mond Award), Dr Stephen Liddle (Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship), Professor Jonathan Williams (Homogeneous Catalysis Award) and Dr Lawrence Que (Inorganic Mechanisms Award).

More about Dalton Division can be found at their website, or on their MyRSC group.

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Hot Article: Fighting cancer with copper complexes

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In this Dalton Transactions Hot article, Chebrolu P. Rao from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and colleagues investigate the anticancer activity of the organometallic compound, copper (II) anthracenyl-terpyridine.

This compound is particularly exciting because it kills cells in a way not seen before with copper complexes.

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Synthesis, characterization, plasmid cleavage and cytotoxicity of cancer cells by a copper(II) complex of anthracenyl-terpyridine
Amit Kumar, Jugun Prakash Chinta, Amrendra Kumar Ajay, Manoj Kumar Bhat and Chebrolu P. Rao
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10201J

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