Dalton Transactions Blog

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.

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…

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’

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.

James Odendal from the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Stellenbosch, SA was awarded a Dalton Transactions poster prize at the recent 15th Inorganic Chemistry Conference in Johannesburg.

The title of his paper was “Investigating Intra- and Intermolecular Bond Displacement in Dication Hexahaloplatinate (IV) Salts as a Function of Temperature using Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction and 195Pt Solid-state NMR”, which James wrote with his co-authors LJ Barbour and KR Koch.

The conference was part of the 40th South African Chemical Institute convention, the first event planned by IUPAC and UNESCO celebrating the International Year of Chemistry. A summary of this highly successful occasion can be found in the SACI newsletter.

James has recently been published as the first author in Delia A. Haynes paper in the New Talent issue of CrystEngComm, read the full article:

Packing motifs in organic ammonium carboxylate salts: extension of the ring-stacking and ring-laddering concepts
James A. Odendal, Jocelyn C. Bruce, Klaus R. Koch and Delia A. Haynes
CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 2398-2408
DOI: 10.1039/C000922A, Paper

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