Dalton Transactions Blog

Dalton Transactions would like to welcome Professor Wolfgang Tremel who joins us as our newest Associate Editor. Wolfgang is currently a full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany. His research interests include: Inorganic materials chemistry, Surface and interface chemistry, Biomineralization, Nanoparticles for applications in drug delivery, in vivo sensing and catalysis, Energy processes (thermoelectric, photonics, phononics, light harvesting).

Professor Tremel is ‘looking forward to collaborating and contributing to a further success of the journal’.

A small selection of articles published by Professor Tremel are below:

Biogenic synthesis of palladium nanoparticles using Pulicaria glutinosa extract and their catalytic activity towards the Suzuki coupling reaction
Mujeeb Khan, Merajuddin Khan, Mufsir Kuniyil, Syed Farooq Adil, Abdulrahman Al-Warthan, Hamad Z. Alkhathlan, Wolfgang Tremel, Muhammad Nawaz Tahir and Mohammed Rafiq H. Siddiqui
Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 9026-9031
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT53554A, Paper

Hybrid chalcogenide nanoparticles: 2D-WS₂ nanocrystals inside nested WS₂ fullerenes
Faegheh Hoshyargar, Tomas P. Corrales, Robert Branscheid, Ute Kolb, Michael Kappl, Martin Panthöfer and Wolfgang Tremel
Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 14568-14575
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT51537K, Paper

Thermoelectric properties of spark-plasma sintered nanoparticular FeSb₂ prepared via a solution chemistry approach
Gregor Kieslich, Christina S. Birkel, Igor Veremchuk, Yuri Grin and Wolfgang Tremel
Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 558-562
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT51535D, Paper

Dalton Transactions is delighted to announce that Professor John Arnold (University of Berkeley, California) will become Chairman of the Editorial Board from 1^st January 2016.

John’s research focusses on the study of new and unusual molecular inorganic and organometallic compounds of the d-, p- and f-block elements, which is at the core of the journal’s scope. He also looks into the novel reactivity and/or catalytic behaviour of small molecules using a variety of characterisation

He has been an Associate Editor for Dalton Transactions since 2002. In that time he has actively promoted the journal worldwide and contributed to the strategy of the journal, during a period in which the size of the journal has changed significantly.

“I am happy and honoured to be appointed as the new Chair of the Editorial Board of Dalton Transactions. I look forward to working alongside Andrew Shore and the entire RSC editorial team, the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board, to bolster Dalton Transactions’ current standing. Together, we will continue to build the journal’s reputation for high quality papers, fair, strong, and timely refereeing, and rapid publication times.”

Professor Philip Mountford (University of Oxford), current Chairman of the Editorial Board will finish at the end of December this year.

“I am delighted that John Arnold will be taking over as Chair of the Editorial Board. I know that under his leadership the board and editors will take the journal on from strength to strength. I have been very privileged to work with an outstanding group of professionals in the Dalton Transactions Editorial team and an equally talented and dedicated board.”

As the Chair of the Editorial Board, John will lead an international team of researchers from all areas of inorganic chemistry. Associate Editors Christine Thomas (Brandeis University) and Warren Piers (University of Calgary) handle manuscripts on organometallics, main group chemistry and homogenous catalysis; Pingyun Feng (University of California, Riverside) and Russell Morris (University of St Andrews), handle papers on solid state and inorganic materials chemistry; Guo-Xin Jin (Fudan University) handles manuscripts on supramolecular and coordination chemistry and Masahiro Yamashita (Tohoku University) continues to serve the field of magnetism. Submissions received in bioinorganic chemistry are handled Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). In addition to our Associate Editors, Polly Arnold (The University of Edinburgh) and Lars Kloo (Royal Institute of Technology) sit on the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board as Members.

John invites members of the community who have a question about Dalton Transactions – whether it be submissions, refereeing, service to the journal, or editorial concerns – to contact him directly. Alternatively please contact the Editorial Office at dalton-rsc@rsc.org and we will be happy to help.

Congratulations to Professor Philip Mountford (University of Oxford; Chair of the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board), for his recent 2015 Schlenk Lectureship award, sponsored by BASF and the University of Tübingen, Germany, for his outstanding research into small molecule activation chemistry.

The Schlenk Lecture was established to honour the seminal work and research of Wilhelm Johann Schlenk; it includes a monetary prize, guest professorship, and additional allowances for accommodation and travelling. Previous prize winners are Professor Warren Piers (University of Calgary, 2011; Associate Editor, Dalton Transactions Editorial Board), and Kyoko Nozaki (Tokyo University, 2013).

Congratulations, Professor Mountford!

Russell Morris, 2015 winner of the Peter Day Award

Many congratulations to our Dalton Transactions Editorial Board member Professor Russell Morris, on winning the Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Peter Day Award, for his pioneering work on the chemistry of porous solids, especially his discovery of the Assembly-Disassembly-Organisation-Reorganisation route to zeolite synthesis.

Russell is Professor of Structural and Materials Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews, and his research interests lie in the synthesis, characterisation and application of porous solids.

Please take a look here to find out more about Russell. Other recipients of RSC awards can be found here.

Warren Piers

We are very proud to announce that Professor Warren Piers (Associate Editor, Dalton Transactions Editorial Board) has recently been elected as the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award.

Talking about his award, Professor Piers said “This is an exciting chance for me to deepen my relationships with German colleagues and develop collaborations with leading scientists in the area of catalysis using first row transition metal-based compounds.  I’m very grateful to the Humboldt Foundation for this opportunity.”

Professor Piers was nominated for this award by Professor Reiner Anwander, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.

Further information can be found on the Humboldt Foundation website.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Christine Thomas to the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board.

Professor Thomas is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University and her research program focuses on synthetic inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. She will join the board as an Associate Editor on 1st May 2014 having been a member of the Advisory Board for Chemical Communications since 2012. In response to her appointment, Professor Thomas said “I’m honoured and excited to join the Dalton Transactions team.” 

A selection Professor Thomas’ latest papers in Dalton Transactions

Heterolytic addition of E-H bonds across Pt-P bonds in Pt N-heterocyclic phosphenium/phosphido complexes
Baofei Pan, Mark W. Bezpalko, Bruce M. Foxman and Christine M. Thomas
Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 9083-9090

Synthesis and investigation of the metal–metal interactions in early/late heterobimetallic complexes linking group 5 imido fragments to Co(I)
Deirdra A. Evers, Alia H. Bluestein, Bruce M. Foxmana and Christine M. Thomas
Dalton Trans.,  2012, 41, 8111-8115

Effect of ligand modification on the reactivity of phosphinoamide-bridged heterobimetallic Zr/Co complexes
Wen Zhou, Noam I. Saper, Jeremy P. Krogman, Bruce M. Foxman and Christine M. Thomas
Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 1984-1989