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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.

This week Dr James Milne (RSC Publishing) presented a certificate of achievement to Professor Hongjie Zhang, at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry.

Our friend Hongjie was recognised for his prolific published research over the last year. RSC has published 17 of Professor Zhang’s papers – making him the most successful author from China during the year and a number of these papers were published in Dalton Transactions.

Read Professor Zhang’s excellent work published in Dalton Transactions:

Tetracarboxylate-based Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) three-dimensional coordination polymers: syntheses, structures and magnetic properties
Shengqun Su, Zhiyong Guo, Guanghua Li, Ruiping Deng, Shuyan Song, Chao Qin, Chengling Pan, Huadong Guo, Feng Cao, Song Wang and Hongjie Zhang
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 9123-9130

Lanthanide doped Y6O5F8/YF3 microcrystals: phase-tunable synthesis and bright white upconversion photoluminescence properties
Song Wang, Ruiping Deng, Hailing Guo, Shuyan Song, Feng Cao, Xiyan Li, Shengqun Su and Hongjie Zhang
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 9153-9158

Cubic spinel In4SnS8: electrical transport properties and electrochemical hydrogen storage properties
Yongqian Lei, Guanhua Wang, Liang Zhou, Wen Hu, Shuyan Song, Weiqiang Fan and Hongjie Zhang
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 7021-7024

Fabrication and characterization of magnetic mesoporous silica nanospheres covalently bonded with europium complex
Jing Feng, Wei-Qiang Fan, Shu-Yan Song, Ying-Ning Yu, Rui-Ping Deng and Hong-Jie Zhang
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 5166-5171

Room temperature, template-free synthesis of BiOI hierarchical structures: Visible-light photocatalytic and electrochemical hydrogen storage properties
Yongqian Lei, Guanhua Wang, Shuyan Song, Weiqiang Fan, Min Pang, Jinkui Tang and Hongjie Zhang
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 3273-3278

Dr Milne and Dr Daping Zhang (RSC Publishing Editor) are on a tour of China where they will visit seven universities/institutes and four companies in Beijing, Changchun, Shanghai and Xiamen.

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As the 8th March is International Women’s Day Dalton Transactions is highlighting the first published advanced article of the day by a female corresponding author.

Congratulations to Susannah L. Scott, who investigates how pincer-ligated iridium complexes with a phosphinite substituent can be immobilised onto a support to form an effective catalyst for the dehydrogenation of alkanes.

Read the full article to find out more…

Reactions of phosphinites with oxide surfaces: a new method for anchoring organic and organometallic complexes
Brian C. Vicente, Zheng Huang, Maurice Brookhart, Alan S. Goldman and Susannah L. Scott
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01369B, Paper

For more information on Professor Scott’s work visit her webpage.

Other recent articles by Susannah Scott can be found below:

Catalytic disassembly of an organosolv ligninviahydrogen transfer from supercritical methanol
Katalin Barta, Theodore D. Matson, Makayla L. Fettig, Susannah L. Scott, Alexei V. Iretskii and Peter C. Ford
Green Chem., 2010, 12, 1640-1647

Wavelet transform EXAFS analysis of mono- and dimolybdate model compounds and a Mo/HZSM-5 dehydroaromatization catalyst
Robert O. Savinelli and Susannah L. Scott
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 5660-5667

Electronic structure of alumina-supported monometallic Pt and bimetallic PtSn catalysts under hydrogen and carbon monoxide environment
Jagdeep Singh, Ryan C. Nelson, Brian C. Vicente, Susannah L. Scott and Jeroen A. van Bokhoven
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 5668-5677

Highly dispersed clay–polyolefin nanocomposites free of compatibilizers, via the in situ polymerization of α-olefins by clay-supported catalysts
Susannah L. Scott, Brian C. Peoples, Cathleen Yung, René S. Rojas, Vikram Khanna, Hironari Sano, Toru Suzuki and Fumihiko Shimizu
Chem. Commun., 2008, 4186-4188

Catalytic ring expansion, contraction, and metathesis-polymerization of cycloalkanes
Ritu Ahuja, Sabuj Kundu, Alan S. Goldman, Maurice Brookhart, Brian C. Vicente and Susannah L. Scott
Chem. Commun., 2008, 253-255

A new class of heterometallic squares possessing a metal-based donor via the self-assembly approach have been synthesised and found to be useful for molecular sensing of aromatics particularly picric acid.  Further studies are underway of the host–guest chemistry involved together with detailed photophysical studies.

Read the full story at:
Self-assembled molecular squares containing metal-based donor: synthesis and application in the sensing of nitro-aromatics
Vaishali Vajpayee, Hyunuk Kim, Anurag Mishra, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Peter J. Stang, Min Hyung Lee, Hwan Kyu Kim and Ki-Whan Chi
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01481H, Communication