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Oorgdagar 2011 Swedish Chemical Society, Division of Inorganic Chemistry Meeting

Ms Aneheim flanked by conference organisers Prof Lars Öhrström, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (left) and Dr Christopher Knee, University of Gothenburg. Photo credit: Magnus T. Johnson

The inorganic chemistry division of the Swedish Chemical Society held their ‘Oorgdagar 2011’ last week. This meeting brings together researchers in inorganic chemistry, from organometallic chemistry to materials chemistry, in Sweden and Scandinavia. To find out more visit the inorganic chemistry division’s webpage, or see Jamie’s earlier blog.

Dalton Transactions was pleased to sponsor a poster prize at the meeting, which was awarded to Emma Aneheim, a phd student at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. Ms Aneheim’s poster was on ‘Palladium chemistry in the advanced reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel’. Find out more about her research by visiting Emma’s webpage at the Department of Nuclear Chemistry.

Conference organiser Prof Lars Öhrström was very enthusiastic about how well the meeting went, commenting ‘it was a great success with speakers from the UK, Germany, Finland, South Africa, France, USA as well as Sweden. The next (second) meeting will be held in Lund 2013’

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Dalton Transactions is sponsoring a poster prize at FEZA 2011

Dalton Transactions is pleased to be sponsoring a poster prize at the 5th International Federation of European Zeolite Associations meeting in Valencia, Spain. This years conference is being hosted by the Spanish Zeolite group, with the theme ‘Innovations in Zeolites and ordered Porous Solids’.

The conference has an exciting list of plenary and keynote speakers including Ferdi Schüth, Étienne Duguet and Jihong Yu.

To find out more about the poster prize visit the FEZA 2011 website.

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Hot Article: Coumarin phosphorescence for luminescent oxygen sensing

A N^N Pt(II) bis(acetylide) complex containing coumarin was prepared in this Dalton Transactions Hot article.

The coordination chemistry of the complex was investigated to better understand its phosphorescence. Room temperature phosphorescence of coumarin has not previously been observed at room temperature, which is an exciting discovery.

The authors went on to use their complex as a sensitizer for triplet–triplet-annihilation based upconversion and luminescent oxygen sensing, with encouraging results.

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Coumarin phosphorescence observed with NN Pt(II) bisacetylide complex and its applications for luminescent oxygen sensing and triplet–triplet-annihilation based upconversion
Haiyang Sun, Huimin Guo, Wenting Wu, Xin Liu and Jianzhang Zhao
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10490J

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Hot Article: Technetium nitrides in nuclear waste management

The most stable crystal structures of different TCN compounds are investigated in this Dalton Transactions Hot article.

Philippe F. Weck and colleagues from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA, use gradient-corrected density functional theory to look at the structures and properties of technetium nitride phases.

Technetium nitride is used in nuclear waste management, as nitride forms are a good way of storing technetium isotopes, a common by product of the nuclear fuel cycle, and also in nuclear medicine, where it acts a a radiopharmaceutical (if you are interested in radiopharmaceuticals, check out our recent themed issue)

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Interplay between structure, stoichiometry and properties of technetium nitrides
Philippe F. Weck, Eunja Kim and Kenneth R. Czerwinski
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10334B

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Ian Manners elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Our Editorial Board member, Professor Ian Manners from Bristol University has been made a fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in the world, and being elected as a fellow is a great honour.

Professor Manners was recognised for his contributions to inorganic and materials chemistry. Read the full citation at the Royal Society’s webpage, or find out more about his research at the University of Bristol.

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Hot Review Article: Claude Piguet looks at self assembly

This Perspective article by Claude Piguet has been selected as a Dalton Transactions Hot article, where the current understanding of the role of energy in self assembly is explained.

Claude Piguet looks at intermolecular interactions in pure materials and diluted solutions, and the thermodynamic considerations behind enthalpy-entropy compensation.

As the author comments, this field is very important as ‘a thorough understanding of the underlying intermolecular connection of an effector to a receptor could be at the origin of some novel design for drugs…’

Professor Piguet is based at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, find out more about his research by visiting his website.

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Enthalpy–entropy correlations as chemical guides to unravel self-assembly processes
Claude Piguet
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10055F

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Daniel Mindiola organometallic research featured in Chemistry World

Dalton Transactions new Associate Editor Dan Mindiola, from Indiana University in the USA, has had his recent research highlighted in Chemistry World. His paper, published in Chemical Science, uses a metal-carbon multiple bond complex to activate methane.

Read the article in Chemistry World to find out more…

Read Jamie’s earlier blog post about Professor Mindiola’s recent appointment as an Associate Editor…

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Radiopharmaceuticals Themed Issue Now Online!

The Dalton Transactions theme issue on radiopharmaceuticals is now online. Read the editorial, by the guest editors Stephen Faulkner (University of Oxford) and Nicholas J. Long (Imperial College London), or check out the extensive collection of perspective review articles, or a variety of original research papers in the issue.

Articles in the issue include:

PERSPECTIVES:

Multimodal radio- (PET/SPECT) and fluorescence imaging agents based on metallo-radioisotopes: current applications and prospects for development of new agents
Flora L. Thorp-Greenwood and Michael P. Coogan

Radiometallated peptides for molecular imaging and targeted therapy
João D. G. Correia, António Paulo, Paula D. Raposinho and Isabel Santos

Towards translation of 212Pb as a clinical therapeutic; getting the lead in!
Kwon Yong and Martin W. Brechbiel

ARTICLES:

First dinuclear Re/Tc complex as a potential bimodal Optical/SPECT molecular imaging agent
Alexandre Boulay, Marine Artigau, Yvon Coulais, Claude Picard, Béatrice Mestre-Voegtlé and Eric Benoist

Synthesis, cytotoxicity and cellular uptake studies of N3 functionalized Re(CO)3 thymidine complexes
Mark D. Bartholomä, Anthony R. Vortherms, Shawn Hillier, John Joyal, John Babich, Robert P. Doyle and Jon Zubieta

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Perspective: Ann Valentine reviews the bioinorganic chemistry of sea squirts

This week’s issue of Dalton Transactions contains an excellent review from Ann Valentine, of Yale University.

Her perspective article focuses on the how the ascidians, which are marine invertebrates commonly known as sea squirts, control how metals like vanadium, titanium and iron react in water.

The sea squirts are amazing creatures that have an unparalleled ability to keep high concentrations of vanadium in their cells, and are an excellent way of studying biological control over inorganic coordination chemistry.

Read the full review to find out more about these fascinating organisms…

The challenges of trafficking hydrolysis prone metals and ascidians as an archetype
Jean P. Gaffney and Ann M. Valentine
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 5827-5835

Want to know more about sea squirts? Look at the Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.

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Top 5 Highly Cited Bioinorganic Articles in Dalton Transactions

Bioinspired catalysis

Dalton Transactions is very proud of the bioinorganic chemistry we publish in our journal, and to celebrate this we are highlighting the top five highly cited bioinorganic papers we’ve ever published!

Congratulations to our authors, and here are the articles:

1.   Biological inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry of neurodegeneration based on prion and Alzheimer diseases
David R. Brown and Henryk Kozlowski
Dalton Trans., 2004, 1907-1917 DOI: 10.1039/B401985G

Metal anti-cancer compounds

2.     Bioinorganic chemistry of copper and zinc ions coordinated to amyloid-β peptide
Peter Faller and Christelle Hureau
Dalton Trans., 2009, 1080-1094, DOI: 10.1039/B813398K

3.    The bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry of carboranes: from new drug discovery to molecular imaging and therapy
Andrea F. Armstrong and John F. Valliant, Dalton Trans., 2007, 4240-4251, DOI: 10.1039/B709843J

Bioorganometallic chemistry

4.     Metal sensor proteins: nature’s metalloregulated allosteric switches
David P. Giedroc and Alphonse I. Arunkumar
Dalton Trans., 2007, 3107-3120, DOI: 10.1039/B706769K

5.     Molecular and supramolecular features of oxo-peroxovanadium complexes containing O3N, O2N2 and ON3 donor sets
Marian Časný and Dieter Rehder
Dalton Trans., 2004, 839-846, DOI: 10.1039/B315291J

Want to read more bioinorganic chemistry? Click on the covers of our bio-themed issues…

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