ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship and innovation activities, ensuring authors gain full credit for their work.
Today, we signed their open letter, along with ACS Publications, committing to unambiguous identification of all authors that publish in our journals.
The official press release can be read here.
The RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Dalton Poster Symposium provides an opportunity for talented young inorganic chemists (PhDs and postdocs) to present their work to their peers and senior representatives from industry and academia. The symposium, funded by the Geoffrey Wilkinson Foundation, is free to attend for successful applicants and we will cover up to £150 travel expenses. On the day there will be talks from Royal Society of Chemistry prize/award winners and there is also the opportunity to win significant prizes including bursaries to attend an international conference.
The event will take place in Burlington House, London on the 27th March 2017.
The deadline for poster abstracts is the 13th January 2017.
Further information about the symposium and how to submit an abstract can be found here.
24th October: Inorganic Chenmistry Symposium at Kyushu University hosted by Professor Yoshio Hisaeda
Our flagship inorganic chemistry journal Dalton Transactions was proud to co-present the Inorganic Chemistry Symposium which took place on the 24th October in Fukuoka, Japan. The symposium was co-presented with Kyushu University, Osaka University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It was also supported by Chemical Science, ChemComm, Chemical Society Reviews, and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.
Amongst those speaking at the symposium were Dalton Transactions Executive editor, Dr Andrew Shore (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) who gave a talk on: Publishing your research in high impact journals and Dalton Editorial board member: Professor Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh, UK) whose talk was on: Architectural control of f-block organometallics for small molecule activation. The full list of speakers can be found here.
26th October: Osaka University, symposium hosted by Professor Shinobu Itoh (Front row, far right: Dalton Transactions Executive Editor, Andrew Shore. Second row, second left: RSC Japan representative Hiromitsu Urakami)
The symposium brought together leading international scientists, delivering lectures which covered the broad scope of Dalton Transactions, from inorganic, organometallic, bioinorganic chemistry to photochemistry and inorganic materials.
28th October: Symposium hosted by Professor Osamu Ishitani
With three locations combined (Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo), there were over 260 attendees with 3 international speakers from the UK, China and US. The Royal Society of Chemistry also had one representative speaker and there were 19 Japanese speakers from 10 difference institutions.
Further information about the symposium including a full list of speakers can be found on the website.
Many congratulations to Dalton Transactions poster prize winner Dr Sophie Benjamin who was awarded at the MICRA2016 – Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed which took place at the University of Bath from the 5th – 7th September.
The meeting takes place every two years and brings together the UK’s community of early career researchers in inorganic chemistry along with experienced colleagues. The aim is to strengthen the UK’s inorganic community by helping junior academics to develop into successful, independent researchers through exchange of experiences and networking.
Further information about the meeting can be found on the webpage.
Dalton Transaction poster prize winner Dr Sophie Benjamin
In celebration of Peer Review Week, with the theme of Recognition for Review – we would like to highlight the top 10 reviewers for Dalton Transactions in 2016, as selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal.
| Name | Institution |
| Dr Chengyu Mao | University of California at Riverside |
| Professor Xian-He Bu | Nankai University |
| Professor Malcolm Halcrow | University of Leeds |
| Dr George Kostakis | University of Sussex |
| Dr Bruno Therrien | University of Neuchatel |
| Dr Biprajit Sarkar | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Dr Dawid Pinkowicz | Jagiellonian University |
| Dr Marius Andruh | University of Bucharest |
| Dr Jason Dutton | La Trobe University |
| Dr Atsushi Kobayashi | Hokkaido University |
We would like to say a massive thank you to these reviewers as well as the Dalton Transactions board and all of the inorganic chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
Dalton Transactions will be providing sponsorship in the form of poster prizes for the 8th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry which will take place in Moscow, Russia from the 4th – 8th September 2016. This will be the first time it has taken place in Russia. The symposium aims to consider all fields of Bioorganometallic Chemistry, from fundamental to applied areas, including multidisciplinary approaches.
Further information about the conference including speakers, registration, the advisory board can be found on the official website here.
Dalton Transactions will be supporting the XXXIV Congress of the Organometallic Chemistry Specialized Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (XXXIV GEQO meeting) that will take place in Girona, Catalonia (Spain) from the 7th – 9th September 2016 at the Girona Auditorium and Conference Center.
The biennial GEQO has an outstanding reputation for excellence and highly engaged discussion, and has long been a focal point for scientists at the forefront of organometallic and homogeneous catalysis to present and discuss their latest developments. The meeting also aims at promoting new collaborations.
Registration can be made on the official website.
Here’s to the Dalton Transactions best poster prize winners: Mr Ramaraj Ayyappan (Indian Institute of Science, India) and Ms Sabrina Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) at the 27th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC 2016).
Dalton poster prize winners (left to right): Mr Ramaraj Ayyappan, (Indian Institute of Science, India) and Ms Sabrina Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
The conference took place in Melbourne, Australia from the 17th – 22nd July with the aim of forming a successful meeting point for scientists active in various fields of organometallic chemistry and all related disciplines and applications worldwide.
Plenary guest speakers included former Dalton Transactions Chair Professor Philip Mountford amongst others and our newest Associate Editor, Richard Layfield attended as a keynote speaker. Our Editorial Board member, Polly Arnold was also in attendance to give a keynote talk.
Further details about the conference can be found here along with information about the next conference which will take place in Florence, Italy in 2018.
Professor Mircea Dincă (MIT, USA)
The 2015 Dalton Transactions Lecture awardee – Professor Mircea Dincă (MIT, USA) – delivered his presentation at UC Berkeley in March 2016. This Lecture is awarded annually to an exceptional young inorganic chemist in the Americas. Previous recipients are:
2014 Christine Thomas (Brandeis University)
2013 Trevor Hayton (UCSB)
2012 Teri Odom (Northwestern University)
2011 Daniel Gamelin (U Washington)
2010 Paul Chirik (Princeton University)
2009 Francois Gabbai (Texas A & M University)
2008 Dan Mindiola (Indiana University)
2007 Geoff Coates (Cornell University)
2006 John Hartwig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2005 Kit Cummins (MIT)
Each Dalton Transactions Lecture awardee is provided with an honorarium and a commemorative plaque.
Professor Dincă is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the functional chemistry of inorganic and metal-organic materials, with a current emphasis on porous materials and high-nuclearity metal clusters.
Congratulations to Professor Dincă for his Dalton Transactions Lecture award!
A team of scientists in China and France has made a rhenium-based catalyst that reduces carbon dioxide under visible light, providing a practical alternative to UV-sensitive catalysts.
By tuning the complex's ligands, researchers designed a rhenium catalyst that reduces carbon dioxide under visible light
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increasing, scientists are searching for ways to halt the rise. One method is to capture the gas and convert it to chemical feedstock. But significant energy is required for its conversion. Considerable effort has, therefore, been devoted to developing catalysts for carbon dioxide’s electrochemical or photochemical reduction.
Interested? The full article can be read in Chemistry World.
The original article can be read below:
Photochemical and electrochemical catalytic reduction of CO2 with NHC-containing dicarbonyl rhenium(I) bipyridine complexes
Antoine Maurin, Chi-On Ng, Lingjing Chen, Tai-Chu Lau, Marc Robert* and Chi-Chiu Ko*
Dalton Trans., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6DT01686C
