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The 7th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry took place at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 15 – 18 October. The first six ACCC conferences were successfully held in Okazaki (Japan, 2007), Nanjing (China, 2009), New Delhi (India, 2011), Jeju (Korea, 2013), Hong Kong (2015) and Melbourne (Australia, 2017). ACCC7 gathered inorganic and coordination chemists from all over the world to present their recent research findings and to exchange ideas on the frontier research topics in inorganic and coordination chemistry. The conference also served to showcase the fast development of coordination chemistry in the Asia/Pacific region.

Themed sessions we held on a range of topics including; biomedical materials, coordination chemistry, functional inorganic materials, lanthanides and actinides, supramolecular, organometallic and more. The conference was attended by delegates from at least 27 countries around the world, including Japan, China, Australia, South Africa, Chile, Saudi Arabia, India and Canada as well as many countries in Europe. You can find out more about ACCC7, including information regarding the Plenary & Invited speakers, on their website.

The 4 day conference was a huge success and Dalton Transactions is pleased to have sponsored 6 prizes. We sponsored 3 Early Career Researcher Presentation awards and 3 Young Coordination Chemist Poster Prizes and each winner received a certificate with a £100 RSC book voucher, a 1 year digital subscription to Dalton Transactions and personal invitation to submit to the journal.

Dalton Transactions Early Career Researcher Presentation Awards

Hiroki Takezawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Nurul Filzah Bt Ghazali, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Tomoki Yoneda, Hokkaido University, Japan

Congratulations to all the winners from Dalton Transactions!

Nurul Filzah Ghazali, Dalton Transactions Early Career Research Presentation ACCC7 Winner

Hiroki Takezawa, Dalton Transactions Early Career Research Presentation ACCC7 Winner

Dalton Transactions would like to congratulate the poster prize winners at this year’s Brazilian Catalysis Meeting which took place 1 – 5 September in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dalton Transactions Advisory Board member and Associate Editor for NJC Jairton Dupont, RSC Advances Editorial Board Member Heloise Oliveira Pastore & Editor in Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology Javier Perez-Ramirez were all in attendance.

Dalton Transactions, NJC, RSC Advances, Chemical Communications, Catalysis Science & Technology and PCCP were delighted to offer 4 poster prizes. Heloise and Javier presented the poster prizes to the winners and each receiving a Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate & Book Voucher.

	Wesley F. Monteiro (PUC-RS) receiving his Dalton Transactions & NJC poster prize from Professor Javier Perez-Ramirez
	Thatiane Verissimo Dos Santos (UFAL-AL) receiving her RSC Advances poster prize from Professor Heloise Oliveira Pastore
	Leticia Rasteiro (IQSC/USP-SC) receiving her Catalysis Science & Technology & Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics poster prize from Professor Javier Perez-Ramirez
	Christian Carlos De Sousa (UFF-RJ) receiving his Chemical Communications poster prize from Professor Javier Perez-Ramirez

Congratulations to all the winners!

The 19th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC-19) took place in Interlaken, Switzerland on 11-16 August, 2019. This interdisciplinary event is known to attract scientists from all over the world – established group leaders as well as young researchers, students and emeriti members. The scientific program included several parallel sessions as well as different categories of presentations, which allowed a large number of the attendees to present their recent work and discuss the latest developments in all fields at the interface between Inorganic Chemistry and the Life Sciences.

Plenary lecturers included Paul David Becker (BSP), Peng Chen (Peking University), Debbie Crans (Colorado State University), Luisa de Cola (University of Strasbourg), Abhishek Dey (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science), Katherine Franz (Duke University), Bernhard Keppler (University of Vienna), Mi Hee Lim (KAIST), Alejandro Vila (National University of Rosario) and Paul Walton (University of York).

For more information regarding the programme, award winners, organizing committee and sponsors can be found on the ICBIC-19 website.

This year there were 9 poster prizes up for grabs with each winner receiving a book published by the RSC.

Congratulations go to:

Sophie Bennett, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
“Investigating the Iron Sulfur Cluster (Isc) Assembly System Using Non-Denaturing Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry”

George Biggs, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Ligand Rearrangement in Ru(II) Arene Complexes Coordinating to Simple Proteins”

Niko Jonasson, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
“A Functional Iron(IV)-oxo Model Complex Showing Activity Reminiscent of TET Enzymes”

Di Hu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“Integrative Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis Identifies Anti-Tumor Gold(III) Porphyrins as Aminopeptidase Inhibitor”

Goutam Mukherjee, Heidelberg University, Germany
“How Does CYP Sequence Affect CYP:CPR Complexation in a Phospholipid Bilayer and the Transfer of Electrons?”

Jiyeon Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
“Modifications of Metal-Bound Amyloidogenic Peptides by a Chemical Modulator”

Elizabeth Hunsaker, Duke University, United States of America
“Fungal Pathogen Candida Albicans Reprioritizes Metal Handling During Fluconazole Stress”

Rachael Fay, University of Zurich, Switzerland
“Photochemical Conjugation of HBED-CC-ArN3 to MetMAb for PET Imaging of c-MET Receptor Expression”

Lukas Stratmann, TU Dortmund, Germany
“Paramagnetic Metal-Tetrads in Higher-order DNA G-Quadruplex Structures as EPR-Active Probes for Distance Measurements and Structure Elucidation”

The EuChemS Inorganic Chemistry Conference is a biannual event showcasing the latest work by the very best inorganic chemists. After previous meetings successfully held in Manchester (2011), Jerusalem (2013), Wroclaw (2015) and Copenhagen (2017) the 5th EuChemS Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EICC-5) was held in Moscow between 24 – 28th June.

Developments, achievements and prospects in all fields of inorganic chemistry were presented in plenary lectures by distinguished scientists, keynote presentations, oral communications and posters in various sections. Guided by the traditions of previous EICCs, the conference’s main purpose was to promote the development of the new generation of inorganic chemists, enabling them to establish new contacts with colleagues from different countries and chemistry fields through the presentation of their work, and through the many networking opportunities the conference provided.

Dalton Transactions Editorial Board Member Marinella Mazzanti was a Plenary Speaker and New Journal of Chemistry’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Wais Hosseini and Associate Editor Yannick Guari were Keynote Speakers.

Dalton Transactions and New Journal of Chemistry each sponsored a Poster Prize at this year’s event and we all send a huge congratulations to the winners:

Dalton Transactions Poster Prize Winner:
Alexandra Zima, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
‘The comparison of the low-spin and high-spin intermediates Fe(V)=O in the selective oxidation of organic substrates’

New Journal of Chemistry Poster Prize Winner:
Dr Oksana Koplak, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia
‘Antiferromagnetic inclusions in organic semiconductors (DOEO)4HgBr4•TCE’

Alexandra Zima with her winning poster. Photographer – Nikolai G Kagirov, Yulia V. Chernova Post-Production – Yulia V. Chernova	Dr Oksana Koplak with her winning poster. Photographer – Yulia V. Chernova

The posters were considered by a committee of 9 professors (a mix of keynote and invited speakers) from 6 countries. The winners each received a certificate, RSC book voucher and free subscription to the journal for a year.

Congratulations!

The 2019 Journées de Chimie de Coordination meeting was held 31^st January – 1^st February in Montpellier, France. These two days were organised by chemists from the four major chemistry institutes of Montpellier (ICGM, IBMM, IEM and ICSM) in order to bring together the French Coordination Chemistry community around a scientific program comprising of six plenary conferences and Oral Communication and Poster prizes.

There were talks from over 20 speakers including, Jean-François Nierengarten (University of Strasbourg), Eduardo Peris (Universitat Jaume I), Clotilde Policar (Sorbonne University), Corine Mathonière (Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux), Myrtil Kahn (CNRS) and Abderrahmane Amgoune (Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires).

Dalton Transactions and New Journal of Chemistry sponsored a poster prize and an oral prize each.

The two poster prize winners were:

Ghada Manai, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie des Nano-Objets (Dalton Transactions) for their poster entitled:

Matériaux hybrides nanostructures à base de nanoparticules de platine et de plymères peptidiques

Ekaterina Mamontova, Université de Montpellier (NJC) for their poster entitled:

Making Prussian blue analogues nanoparticles luminescent: effect of the confinement over the properties

(left to right) NJC Poster Prize winner, Ekaterina Mamontova and Dalton Transactions Oral prize winner, Ding Wang

The two oral prizes winners were:

Ding Wang, École Polytechnique (Dalton Transactions)

Synthesis and Characterizations of an Original Heterobimetallic Nickel Complex with Divalent Organolanthanides

Maya Guillaumont, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique (NJC)

Theoretical study of Reduction Routes of MX(PPh3)3 in complex environment toward synthesis of Cobalt and Nickel Nanocrystals

The winners received a journal certificate and a book voucher. Dalton Transactions and New Journal of Chemistry sends hearty congratulations to the winners!