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Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium

19 Apr 2011

A chance for networking and discussion!

A chance to meet fellow postgraduates and postdocs from the wider UK inorganic community this year at the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium. The meeting, organised in associated with Johnson Matthey, is taking place in University of Warwick on 20-21 September 2011.

Registration for the symposium is FREE of charge and accommodation and the conference dinner cost comes to a mere £67 – a bargain indeed! Speakers include the 2010 Dalton Transactions Europe/Africa Lectureship Winner, Professor Karsten Meyer, Dr Erwin Reisner and Dr Michaele Hardie. More information available at the event webpage.

Register now!

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Meet the team: 17th Rideal Conference, Cardiff

19 Apr 2011

Jamie Humphrey, Dalton Transactions Editor

Dr Jamie Humphrey, Managing Editor of Dalton Transactions, CrystEngComm and Catalysis Science & Technology will be attending the 17th Rideal Conference, hosted by the Cardiff Catalysis Institute in the Cardiff School of Chemistry between April 19th 2011 and April 21st 2011.

If you are attending please get in touch, Jamie will be delighted to speak to you.

To find out more about the Rideal conference visit their website:

http://www.rideal.cf.ac.uk/index.html

Find out what other conferences members of the Editorial Offices will be attending.

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Dalton Transactions Issue 17

14 Apr 2011

Dalton Transactions issue 17 is now available.

The outside cover article features work by Jian-Rong Li and Xiao-Ying Huang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

They prepared a microporous chalcogenide via solvothermal synthesis. The compound is a 3D open framework that exhibits framework flexibility upon cation exchange.

Read the cover article:
[(Me)₂NH₂]_0.75[Ag_1.25SnSe₃]: A three-dimensionally microporous chalcogenide exhibiting framework flexibility upon ion-exchange
Jian-Rong Li and Xiao-Ying Huang
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 4387–4390
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01381A

The inside cover article is by Karina Barnholt Klepper and colleagues from the University of Oslo who produced thin films of organic–inorganic hybrid materials by atomic layer deposition.

The films are based on saturated linear carboxylic acids and trimethylaluminium and are stable in contact with water.

For more details see:
Atomic layer deposition of organic–inorganic hybrid materials based on saturated linear carboxylic acids
Karina Barnholt Klepper, Ola Nilsen, Per-Anders Hansen and Helmer Fjellvåg
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 4636–4646
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01716G

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Last chance to nominate! Dalton Transactions European/African Lectureship

11 Apr 2011

Time is running out to nominate your colleagues for the Dalton Transactions European/African Lectureship 2011! Send your nominee’s details to the Dalton Transactions Editorial Office by 22nd April 2011.

Nominate now by sending us: a nomination letter, a letter seconding the nomination, a cv (maximum 5 pages) and a statement from the candidate (not more than one page) describing their most significant research contributions.

And remember, to be eligible for the Dalton Transactions European/African Lectureship, the candidate should be within the first 12 years of receiving their doctorate or equivalent degree. Find out more….

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Dalton Transactions issue 16

08 Apr 2011

Dalton Transactions issue 16 is now published online

Featuring the cover articles:

The outside front cover features three tetraethyleneglycol-substituted zinc phthalocyanines. Their photophysical and photochemical properties, binding to plasma proteins and photocytotoxicity are investigated together with their potential as photodynamic therapy photosensitisers.

Perspective: Multi-functional magnets with Prussian blue analogs

04 Apr 2011

In this Dalton Transactions Perspective, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi and Hiroko Tokoro discuss cyano-bridged bimetal assemblies (particularly Prussian blue analogs) that demonstrate novel magnetic functionalities. Charge-transfer phase transitions, reversible photomagnetism, second harmonic generation along with magnetization-induced second harmonic generation, ferroelectric ferromagnetism, humidity-sensitive magnetism, high ionic conductivity, and a coupling effect (termed spin-ionics) between ionic conduction and magnetic ordering within Prussian blue analogs is described.

Prussian blue analogs have been intensively studied due to (i) their flexible structure, which meet conditions for charge-transfer, photoinduced change, and absorption and desorption of water, and (ii) the strong exchange coupling of the magnetic centers through cyano-bridged ligands.

To find out more about this fascinating area, read for free until 29th April here.

Novel magnetic functionalities of Prussian blue analogs
Hiroko Tokoro and Shin-ichi Ohkoshi
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01829E

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Precursor boost for uranium chemistry

01 Apr 2011

This week Chemistry World reports how the study of uranium chemistry should become significantly easier thanks to researchers in the US who have discovered a simple way to make key precursors to a wide range of low valency uranium compounds.

A deep understanding of uranium chemistry is important not only for developing improved nuclear fuel cycles, but because the element has also shown promise in materials such as superconductors and catalysts. Uranium complexes are highly sensitive to water and air, but the only viable syntheses started from aqueous reactions of uranium oxides with harsh chlorinating reagents at high temperatures. Read more in Simon Hadlington’s Chemistry World story!

See also Jackie’s recent ChemComm article reporting convenient access to thorium complexes.

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Dalton Transactions issue 15: Contributions of inorganic chemistry to energy research

31 Mar 2011

This themed issue Contributions of inorganic chemistry to energy research is now available online

With Guest editors Duncan Wass and Neil Robertson, this themed issue focuses on the inorganic chemistry that lies at the heart of many sustainable energy technologies, including solar energy conversion, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, batteries, nuclear chemistry, biomass conversion, CO₂ conversion and other aspects of catalysis for energy.

Check out the cover articles:

Synthesis of glycerol carbonate from glycerol and urea with gold-based catalysts
Ceri Hammond, Jose A. Lopez-Sanchez, Mohd Hasbi Ab Rahim, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Robert L. Jenkins, Albert F. Carley, Qian He, Christopher J. Kiely, David W. Knight and Graham J. Hutchings
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3927-3937
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01389G

Probing the local coordination environment and nuclearity of uranyl(VI) complexes in non-aqueous media by emission spectroscopy

Michael P. Redmond, Stephanie M. Cornet, Sean D. Woodall, Daniel Whittaker, David Collison, Madeleine Helliwell and Louise S. Natrajan

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3914-3926
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01464H

Lithium niobate nanowires for photocatalytic water splitting
Kenji Saito, Kazunori Koga and Akihiko Kudo
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3909-3913

DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01844A

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Top Ten most-read Dalton Transactions articles in February

31 Mar 2011

Read the most-read Dalton Transactions articles of February 2011, listed below:

Solvent induced molecular magnetic changes observed in single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation

Zheng-Ming Hao and Xian-Ming Zhang, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2092-2098
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00979B

Bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry: aspects of gold(I)-protein complexes

Krishna P. Bhabak, Bhaskar J. Bhuyan and Govindasamy Mugesh, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2099-2111
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01057J

Oxidative cyclization of thiosemicarbazone: an optical and turn-on fluorescent chemodosimeter for Cu(II)

Arghya Basu and Gopal Das, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2837-2843
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01549K

Trigonal propeller-shaped [Mn^III₃M^IINa] complexes (M = Mn, Ca): structural and functional models for the dioxygen evolving centre of PSII

Sanjit Nayak, Hari Pada Nayek, Stefanie Dehnen, Annie K. Powell and Jan Reedijk, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2699-2702
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01463J

CoMn₂O₄ spinel from a MOF: synthesis, structure and magnetic studies

Partha Mahata, Debajit Sarma, C. Madhu, A. Sundaresen and Srinivasan Natarajan, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 1952-1960
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01137A

Anion binding by metallo-receptors of 5,5′-dicarbamate-2,2′-bipyridine ligands

Biao Wu, Jin Yang, Xiaojuan Huang, Shaoguang Li, Chuandong Jia, Xiao-Juan Yang, Ning Tang and Christoph Janiak, Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01561J

Organometallic dithiolene complexes of the group 8–10 metals: Reactivities, structures and electrochemical behavior

Mitsushiro Nomura, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2112-2140
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01025A

A supramolecular spin crossover Fe(III) complex and its Cr(III) isomer: stabilization of water–chloride cluster within supramolecular host

Rajat Saha, Susobhan Biswas, Ian M. Steele, Kamalendu Dey and Golam Mostafa, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3166-3175
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01256D

Structures and magnetism of {Ni₂Na₂}, {Ni₄} and {Ni₆^IINi^III} 2-hydroxy-3-alkoxy-benzaldehyde clusters

Shu-Hua Zhang, Ning Li, Cheng-Min Ge, Chao Feng and Lu-Fang Ma, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3000-3007
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01498B

Synthesis and self-assembly of spin-labile and redox-active manganese(III) complexes

Claudio Gandolfi, Tatiana Cotting, Paulo N. Martinho, Olha Sereda, Antonia Neels, Grace G. Morgan and Martin Albrecht, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 1855-1865
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01222J

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IUPAC survey: Coordination polymers or MOFs?

30 Mar 2011

The IUPAC task group on “Coordination polymers and metal organic frameworks: terminology and nomenclature guidelines” invite you to take part in a questionnaire on CP/MOF terminology. Click to enter the questionnaire.

The field of coordination polymers and metal organic frameworks research has expanded rapidly in the last 15 years. Currently naming of the networks obtained and terminology practices are not consistent among research groups, sometimes causing confusion and unnecessary conflicts.

This IUPAC project aims to create a glossary of terms and nomenclature in the area of coordination polymers and they need your input! More information about this project can be found on the group’s IUPAC webpage.

Comments are also invited directly to the group’s chairman Lars Öhrström.

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