James Donahue and coworkers provide mechanistic insights into the reduction of CO2 to CO mediated by a variety of Tungsten (II) complexes, expanding on earlier work by Mayer et al.:
A tungsten-mediated closed cycle of reactivity for the reduction of CO2 to CO
Upul Jayarathne, Perumalreddy Chandrasekaran, Heiko Jacobsen, Joel T. Mague and James P. Donahue
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00489H , Paper
READ NOW! Free to access until The 6th of October
In this hot article Douglas Stephan and coworkers describe a tailorable new class of potent donor ligand that could be exploited in gold catalysis:
Ag(I) and Au(I) complexes of sterically crowded cyclic phosphinimine ligands
Christopher C. Brown, Christoph Glotzbach and Douglas W. Stephan
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00261E, Paper
READ NOW! Free to access until the 6th of October.
Ruth Doherty, Dalton Transactions Deputy Editor
Dalton Transactions is proud to attending and publishing an associated Themed Issue with Dalton Discussion 12: Catalytic C-H and C-X Bond Activation (DD12), taking place at Durham University from 13th to the 15th of September 2010.
We are also delighted to be able to sponsor a Dalton Transactions poster prize to be awarded at the meeting. There will also be a poster prize sponsored by our new journal, Catalysis Science & Technology .
DD12 is being jointly organised by the RSC Dalton and Organic Divisions and will bring together the organic, organometallic, and inorganic (coordination chemistry) communities from academia and industry to discuss the current state of the art, the development and future of late metal-catalysed cross-coupling strategies of C-X and C-H bonds.
I will be attending DD12 so please do have a chat with me if you are also there, I’d love to hear from you.
If you will be attending DD12 let me know by email to dohertyr@rsc.org or by leaving a comment below.
In this hot article from Tacke and coworkers on the coordination chemistry of silicon, they describe new hexacoordinate silicon complexes including some scarcely reported silicon amidinate complexes:
Novel neutral hexacoordinate silicon(IV) complexes with two bidentate monoanionic benzamidinato ligands
Konstantin Junold, Christian Burschka, Rüdiger Bertermann and Reinhold Tacke
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00391C, Paper
READ NOW! Free access until the 1st of October.
OLEDs have found use in mobile phones but researchers are still searching for better emitters
A popular fabrication technique for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) may be having a negative impact on performance, say European scientists.
Read Yuandi Li’s news article on this hot Dalton Transactions paper at Highlights in Chemical Science or access the full article:
An inconvenient influence of iridium(III) isomer on OLED efficiency
Etienne Baranoff, Henk J. Bolink, Filippo De Angelis, Simona Fantacci, Davide Di Censo, Karim Djellab, Michael Grätzel and Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Dalton Trans., 2010
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00414f
In this hot article Robert Mulvey and colleagues investigate the coordination chemistry of NHC with s-block elements and the structural chemistry of organomagnesium compounds leading to some interesting discoveries:
N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized adducts of alkyl magnesium amide, bisalkyl magnesium and Grignard reagents: trapping oligomeric organo s-block fragments with NHCs
Alan R. Kennedy, Robert E. Mulvey and Stuart D. Robertson
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00693A, Paper
READ NOW! This article is free to access until the 28th of September.
In this hot article the authors investigate a new Pt(II) complex for its DNA binding and clevage properties and find considerable potential for the compound as an anticancer drug. Through detailed X-ray and thermal decomposition studies they also discovered a water cluster containing 20 water molecules in the framework of the Pt(II) host:
An unusual (H2O)20 discrete water cluster in the supramolecular host of a charge transfer platinum(II) complex: cytotoxicity and DNA cleavage activities
Sutanuva Mandal, Alfonso Castiñeiras, Tapan K. Mondal, Arindam Mondal, Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay and Sreebrata Goswami
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00527D, Paper
READ NOW! Free to access until September 28th
In this hot article Justin Bradley and coworkers show how low temperature MCD (Magnetic Circular Dichroism) can be used to probe the magnetic and, indirectly, structural properties of complexes:
MCD spectroscopy of hexanuclear Mn(III) salicylaldoxime single-molecule magnets
Justin M. Bradley, Andrew J. Thomson, Ross Inglis, Constantinos J. Milios, Euan K. Brechin and Stergios Piligkos
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00634C
Read for FREE until September 17th!
Keith Murray and Stuart Batten et al. describe the exciting spin crossover properties of several new infinite 3D frameworks in this hot article:
Synthesis, structures and spin crossover properties of infinite 3D frameworks of iron(II) containing organodinitrile bridging ligands
Kittipong Chainok, Suzanne M. Neville, Boujemaa Moubaraki, Stuart R. Batten, Keith S. Murray, Craig M. Forsyth and John D. Cashion
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00447B
Read for FREE until September 17th!
In this article Angelo Amoroso and coworkers display reversible co-ordination chemstry, where the complexes formed are dependant upon the solvent present:
The co-ordination chemistry of bis(2,2′-bipyrid-6′-yl)ketone with first row transition metals: The reversible interconversion of a mononuclear complex and a dinuclear hemiketal containing species
James C. Knight, Angelo J. Amoroso, Peter G. Edwards, Ravi Prabaharan and Neha Singh, Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00344A
Read for FREE until the 17th of September!
