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The 2024 Dalton Transactions Best Cover Award Winners

05 Feb 2025

This year, Dalton Transactions has introduced three new awards to celebrate the cover artworks published in our journal each year. These awards were voted for by the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board, our Editorial Office and the inorganic community via social media. We are delighted to announce this year’s winners below.

Winner of the 2024 Dalton Transactions’ Best Cover Award, chosen by our Editorial Board:

Outside front cover, Issue 48

 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:

Outside front cover, Issue 1

 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:

Outside front cover, Issue 8

 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

 

Explore all of last year’s covers in our cover gallery, which includes links to the articles behind each cover.

 

Have you thought about highlighting your work on one of our covers?*

Articles that are associated with a cover receive an average of 35% more downloads than articles without. To achieve this, the Editorial Office will take extra steps to enhance the visibility of your article.

When your article and cover are published, we will:

  • Make your article free to access for 6 weeks, ensuring global reach
  • Insert your cover into the PDF of your article, making it more prominent to readers
  • Place your article towards the front of the issue, where it will be more readily accessible to readers
  • Promote your article and your cover through our social media channels
  • Include your article in our ‘Articles behind the covers’ online themed collection, see our 2025 collection as it grows, here.
  • Enter your artwork into our annual Cover Artwork competition
  • Feature your article in the cover gallery on our blog
  • Send you a high-resolution electronic copy of the cover for you to use in presentations or print and display at your institution
  • For front covers, highlight your cover in the contents page of the journal online

If you are interested in showcasing your research on one of our covers, once your article has been accepted for publication, please do contact the Editorial Office for further information.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s winners and make sure to read all the work behind our 2024 covers, here.

 

*Please note that authors are required to pay a fee for this service. All covers are typically £1000 (plus applicable taxes). All covers must be approved prior to publication and will be used at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

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Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award 2023

21 Jun 2024

We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2023 Outstanding Paper Award.

The Outstanding Paper Award is aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. The process for selecting the winner involves the shortlisting of papers published in the journal within the previous year based on nominations by members of the Editorial Board as well as a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score and citations. The Editorial Board then votes on this shortlist to select the winner.

Construction of Pd-based coordination cages with three geometrically distinct ligands

Ru-Jin Li, Jean de Montmollin, Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, Rosario Scopelliti and Kay Severin*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6451-6456

 Graphical abstract for article: d3dt00248a.

In this outstanding article, the authors combined three different dipyridyl ligands with [Pd(CH3CN)4](BF4)2 to give mixtures of homo- and/or heteroleptic coordination cages. They found that the structural flexibility of ligands with alkynyl spacers were important for the formation of the heteroleptic complexes.

 

Meet the authors of this outstanding paper

Kay Severin

Kay Severin is professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research group works on synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry, with projects ranging from small molecule activation (the chemistry of laughing gas) to the construction of functional nanostructures.

  Photograph of Kay Severin.
Photograph of Ru-Jin Li. Ru-Jin Li

Ru-Jin Li obtained his PhD in 2019 from TU Dortmund under the supervision of Prof. Guido H. Clever. He then continued his passion in supramolecular chemistry as postdoctoral researcher in  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Prof. Kay Severin. Since 2023, He joined China BlueChemical Ltd. (“CBC”), a modern large-scale enterprise under China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”). He currently focuses on developing environmentally friendly technologies for the Marine Gas industry, and sustainable technologies for direct air capture (DAC) and CO2 conversion.
Jean de Montmollin

Jean de Montmollin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Sciences with majors in Chemistry and Materials Science from ETH Zürich. During his studies, he conducted research projects in the field of organic and inorganic chemistry under Prof. Antonio Togni (aryl-SF2CF3 compounds), Prof. Bill Morandi (ambiphilic ligands) and Prof. Maksym Kovalenko (metal-organic frameworks). Since 2022 he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Kay Severin on palladium-based metal-organic cages of low symmetry.

 Photograph of Jean de Montmollin.
 Photograph of Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani. Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani

Farzaneh obtained her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2013. During her PhD and a post-doctoral stay at EPFL, she discovered her passion for crystallography. In 2016, she began working for ISIC and became tenured in 2019. She is routinely solving structures of small molecules, supramolecular assemblies and MOFs. She is particularly interested in phase transitions of perovskites and modulated organic molecules. She also enjoys teaching and training the users of the Open Access Facility at the EPFL.
Rosario Scopelliti

Rosario Scopelliti was born in 1967 in Italy and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Messina (Italy). He moved the same year to the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), working in Carlo Floriani’s group, mainly taking care about crystal structures. He joined EPFL (Switzerland) in 2001 and has been working – since then – in the XRD service of the school.

 Photograph of Rosario Scopelliti.
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Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award 2022

09 Jun 2023

We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.

The Outstanding Paper Award is a new award aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. The process for selecting the winner involves the shortlisting of papers published in the journal within the previous year based on nominations by members of the Editorial Board as well as a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score and citations. The Editorial Board then votes on this shortlist to select the winner.

Conformationally dynamic copper coordination complexes

Bronte J. Charette, Paul J. Griffin, Claire M. Zimmerman and Lisa Olshansky*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 6212-6219

In this outstanding article, the authors explored the interplay between molecular and electronic structure for a series of Cu(I) and Cu(II) complexes with dpaR ligands through various spectroscopic and physical techniques.

 

Meet the authors of this outstanding paper

Lisa Olshansky

Lisa Olshansky is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UIUC. She received her PhD from MIT in 2015. Her current research focuses on mimicking the ways that biological systems efficiently interconvert different forms of energy. Specifically, she hypothesizes that there is a critical interplay between macroscopic changes in molecular structure and subatomic changes in electronic structure that can be leveraged for diverse applications ranging from solar energy conversion to biomedical research. Olshansky has been named a Searle, Vallee, and Cottrell Scholar, a Kavli fellow (2022), and has received early career research awards from the NIH and DOE.

  
Bronte Charette

Bronte obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Winnipeg where she began her research career in synthetic inorganic chemistry which she continued during her M.Sc. studies under the supervision of Prof. Jamie Ritch at the University of Manitoba. In 2021, Bronte received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine as a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Alan Heyduk. Her postdoctoral work with Prof. Lisa Olshansky focused on synthesizing switchable transition metal complexes for renewable energy conversion strategies. Bronte is excited to start her independent career as an assistant professor at UC Davis this summer.
Paul Griffin

Paul Griffin received his bachelor’s in chemistry and philosophy (2016) and his Master’s in chemistry (2018) from the University of Scranton. His master’s research was conducted under Dr Art Catino in which he developed a general approach to synthesize substituted tetraarylmethanes. Paul recently obtained his PhD in inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2023), where he works with Lisa Olshansky to study the relationship between conformational dynamics, photochemistry, and electron transfer in copper coordination complexes. Paul is passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists and explores his philosophy interests by having riveting discussions with his cat, Mookie.
Claire Zimmerman

Claire completed her B.S. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under Dr Lisa Olshansky. She is currently in her first year of graduate studies at the University of California Irvine with Dr Jenny Yang.
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