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Dalton Transactions highlights from 2023

08 Jan 2024

Happy New Year from the Dalton Transactions Editorial Office!

In 2023, Dalton Transactions published 48 issues with over 1800 articles, including 81 Frontier and Perspectives review articles, from 60 countries. With over 3 million article downloads, you can be confident that your article has excellent visibility.

We would also like share with you some highlights from Dalton Transactions in 2023, including our outstanding paper award, themed collections, and our most popular articles.

Meet our new Associate Editors

We were delighted to welcome Neal Mankad and Eric Rivard as Associate Editors to the journal in 2023. Read on to find out more about them and meet our full Editorial Board here.

Neal Mankad

Neal P. Mankad received his S.B. in chemistry from MIT in 2004 after having conducted undergraduate research with Prof. Joseph P. Sadighi on copper N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. In 2010, Neal earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech as an NSF graduate research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Jonas C. Peters, working on biomimetic and bioinspired complexes of copper and iron. During 2010-2012, he was an NIH postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, with Prof. F. Dean Toste studying fundamental organometallic chemistry of gold.

Since 2012, Neal has been an independent faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where his group focuses on synthetic inorganic and organometallic systems relevant to chemical sustainability. Selected research awards earned by Neal include the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). He has also gained distinction for excellence in teaching, including by the UIC Teaching Recognition Program.

Eric Rivard

Eric Rivard completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ian Manners in 2004. After NSERC sponsored postdoctoral work with Professors Jonas Peters (Caltech) and Philip Power (University of California, Davis), and a research stay with Professor Cameron Jones (Monash University), he joined the University of Alberta in 2008 where he is now a Full Professor. He has given over 200 invited lectures worldwide and has published around 150 articles. He was the inaugural 2016 Michael Lappert Lecturer from the RSC, an RCMS Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (2016), an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow (2017), held visiting fellowships in 2015 and 2023 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), was a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (2023), and won the 2018 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure and Applied Inorganic Chemistry (Canadian Society for Chemistry). The Rivard group studies fundamental low-coordinate and main group chemistry, catalysis, semiconducting material synthesis, and the development of phosphorescent materials and conjugated polymers based on inorganic elements.

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2023 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award Winners

The Outstanding Paper Award is a new award aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. This year’s winners were Bronte Charette, Lisa Olshansky, Paul Griffin and Claire Zimmerman for their paper:

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.

Themed Collections

Find out more about the themed collections we have launched in 2023, including:

Spotlight Collection: Inorganic Molecular Electronics

Highlighting recent developments in the application of the structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of inorganic and organometallic complexes in molecular electronics.

Guest Editors:

Cláudio Verani, Wayne State University

Paul Low, University of Western Australia

New Talent: Asia Pacific, 2023

Includes recent research and reviews by early career researchers in the Asia-Pacific region, highlighting the achievements of emerging scientists in the field of inorganic chemistry

Guest Editors:

Jitendra K. Bera, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Sally Brooker, University of Otago

Takashi Uemura, University of Tokyo

Li-Min Zheng, Nanjing University

Themed Collections still open for submissions:

Intercalation Compounds: properties, mechanisms and advanced applications

Submission deadline: 31st January 2024

Guest Editors:

Chiara Bisio, University of Eastern Piedmont Sebastien Cahen, Institut Jean Lamour – CNRS-Université de Lorraine

Fabrice Leroux, University of Clermont-Ferrand

Recent Progress and Perspectives on Spin Transition Compounds

Submission deadline: 16th February 2024

Guest Editors:

Shinya Hayami, Kumamoto University

Malcolm Halcrow, University of Leeds

Birgit Weber, University of Jena

If you would like to contribute to any of the above collections, please email dalton-rsc@rsc.org.

Most popular articles from 2023

We are pleased to share a selection of our most popular articles from 2023 – all free to access until July 2024.

Current status and prospects of MOFs in controlled delivery of Pt anticancer drugs

Jinyi Chen, Zhixin Zhang, Jiaxin Ma, Alireza Nezamzadeh-Ejhieh, Chengyu Lu, Ying Pan*, Jianqiang Liu* and Zhi Bai*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6226-6238

The perfluoroadamantoxy aluminate as an ideal weakly coordinating anion? – synthesis and first applications

Andreas Billion, Marcel Schorpp, Rebecca Feser, Manuel Schmitt, Lea Eisele, Harald Scherer, Takaaki Sonoda, Hajimu Kawa, Burkhard Butschke and Ingo Krossing*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 4355-4370

We would like to thank you for your continued support of Dalton Transactions and wish you all the best for 2024.

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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 dpa^R 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.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s winners and read the outstanding paper here.

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

03 Oct 2022

We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2022.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 18 November 2022! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between July – September 2022.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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Congratulations to the winners of the Inorganic Ireland Symposium

18 May 2021

Congratulations to the winners of the Inorganic Ireland Symposium held on 14 May 2021.

The one-day meeting attracted a large number of attendees throughout the day. The purpose was to strengthen the interaction of inorganic research groups within the island and to foster synergies and opportunities. The symposium hosted a series of talks, oral flash presentations, and posters, and showed the full breadth, diversity, and high quality of inorganic chemistry in Ireland.

Daltons Transactions, RSC Advances, Chemical Science and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers were pleased to sponsor the Inorganic Ireland Symposium online conference with 2 oral and 2 poster prizes, each winner received a certificate and a £100 book voucher.

Congratulations go to the 4 prize winners. Best oral prizes go to Gita Singh (Chemical Science) and Lorna Doyle (Dalton Transactions). Best poster presentations go to Rosy Polisicchio (Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers) and Sanjukta Pahar (RSC Advances).

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

12 Apr 2021

We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2021.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 24 May 2021! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between January – March 2021.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

07 Jan 2021

We have updated our ‘HOT articles’ for the last quarter of 2020.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 18 February 2021! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between October – December 2020.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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Dalton Transactions New Talent: Americas

10 Dec 2020

We are very pleased to present the final themed issue of 2020 entitled New Talent: Americas.

This themed issue reflects the strength and vitality of inorganic chemistry in the Americas and is guest-edited by Professors Georgii Nikonov (Brock University, Canada), Neal Mankad (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), and Ana Maria da Costa Ferreira (University of São Paulo, Brazil). The emerging new talent from across the Americas is showcased from a broad spectrum of inorganic chemistry and highlights new perspectives on the subject.

A few select examples of the articles in this collection are shown below and are all free to access until January 15^th 2021.

The chemical and physical properties of tetravalent lanthanides: Pr, Nd, Tb, and Dy Thaige P. Gompa, Arun Ramanathan, Natalie T. Rice and Henry S. La Pierre *Dalton Trans.,* 2020, 49, 15945-15987 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT01400A
What is holding back the development of antiviral metallodrugs? A literature overview and implications for SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics and future viral outbreaks Raphael E. F. de Paiva, Antônio Marçal Neto, Igor A. Santos, Ana C. G. Jardim, Pedro P. Corbi and Fernando R. G. Bergamini *Dalton Trans.,* 2020, 49, 16004-16033 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT02478C
Bis(pentafluorophenyl)phenothiazylborane – an intramolecular frustrated Lewis pair catalyst for stannane dehydrocoupling Jordan N. Bentley, Ekadashi Pradhan, Tao Zeng and Christopher B. Caputo *Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 16054-16058 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT00506A*
Alkali-metal- and halide-free dinuclear mixed-valent samarium and europium complexes Nishya F. M. Mukthar, Nathan D. Schley and Gaël Ung *Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 16059-16061 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT01095B*
Transmembrane Cu(I) P-type ATPase pumps are electrogenic uniporters Nisansala Abeyrathna, Sameera Abeyrathna, M. Thomas Morgan, Christoph J. Fahrni and Gabriele Meloni *Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 16082-16094 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0DT01380C*

We would be delighted if you decided to submit your primary research to Dalton Transactions – Dalton Transactions is a journal for all areas of inorganic chemistry, which encompasses the organometallic, bioinorganic and materials chemistry of the elements, with applications including synthesis, catalysis, energy conversion/storage, electrical devices and medicine. Dalton Transactions welcomes high-quality, original submissions in all of these areas and more, where the advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry is significant. See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Spotlight Collection: MOF Sensors

12 Nov 2020

We are delighted to announce the launch of our newest Spotlight Collection, comprising recently published articles focusing on Metal Organic Framework Sensors, handpicked by Editorial Board Member Professor Takashi Uemura, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Spotlight Collections are ongoing themed collections highlighting the best past and present work in Dalton Transactions. If you would like to contribute an article to this collection, please contact the Editorial Office at dalton-rsc@rsc.org with your proposed topic.

All of these articles are free to access until December 31^st, 2020 and we hope you enjoy reading them.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to Dalton and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

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Selected articles:

A First Ln−MOF as a Trifunctional Luminescent Probe for Efficient Sensing of aspartic acid, Fe3+ and DMSO
Dong-Dong Yang, Liping Lu, Sisi Feng, Miaoli Zhu
Dalton Transactions, 2020, 49, 7514-7524

Two luminescent coordination polymers as highly selective and sensitive chemosensors for Cr^VI-anions in aqueous medium
Chen-Xue Wang, Yu-Pei Xia, Zhao-Quan Yao, Jialiang Xu, Ze Chang and Xian-He Bu
Dalton Transactions, 2019, 48, 387-394

Extraordinary sensitivity for H₂S and Fe(iii) sensing in aqueous medium by Al-MIL-53-N₃ metal–organic framework: in vitro and in vivo applications of H₂S sensing
Aniruddha Das, Sooram Banesh, Vishal Trivedi and Shyam Biswas
Dalton Transactions, 2018, 47, 2690-2700

Read the full collection here

Meet the Editor

Takashi Uemura obtained his PhD at Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University in 2002. He then began his academic career as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Kyoto University. In 2018, he moved to the University of Tokyo where he holds the position of Professor. He was also a researcher of PRESTO program (2006–2010) and has been a research director for a CREST program (2013-2020) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency. He has received a number of awards, including the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Kao Research Initiative Award, and JSPS Prize.

His research focuses on the preparation of synergistic nanohybrids between porous coordination compounds and polymeric materials, in particular, polymer chemistry in confined nanospaces.

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Congratulations to the winners of the Photochemistry School for the Spanish Association of Bioinorganic Chemistry

21 Sep 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the Photochemistry School for the Spanish Association of Bioinorganic Chemistry

Daltons Transactions and Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (PPS) were pleased to sponsor the three day Photochemistry School for the Spanish Association of Bioinorganic Chemistry online conference with 1 oral and 2 poster prizes. The event attracted over 170 attendees with 75 poster and 21 orals plus 11 lecturers.

Congratulations go to the 3 prize winners. Best oral (Dalton) goes to Deng Zhiqin, best poster presentations (PPS) go to Enrique M Arpa and Mariana Cali.

Enrique M Arpa

Mariana Cali

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Congratulations to the Winners of the Global Inorganic Discussion Weekdays (GIDW) Online Twitter Poster Event

27 Jul 2020

Daltons Transactions was pleased to sponsor the Global Inorganic Discussion Weekdays (GIDW) Online Twitter Poster Event with 5 poster prizes. The 48 hour twitter-event started on the 9 July 2020 and allowed inorganic chemists globally to share their scientific findings and connect with others in the field.

Congratulations go to the 5 poster prize winners, Jeanette Adjei, Vishal Kachwal, Patrick Morgan, Pawel Loewe and Dr Miguel A Soto.