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We are delighted to announce our new spotlight collection on aggregation induced luminescence of metal complexes. Spotlight Collections are ongoing themed collections highlighting the best past and present work in Dalton Transactions.

Metal complexes have been known as luminescent materials for decades and still represent an extremely attractive class of materials due to their peculiar structure-related properties. As a consequence, they have found applications as responsive supramolecular motifs, sensors and photocatalysts. In the last 10 years, the emerging field of Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) demonstrated how a vast variety of compounds are able to switch from negligible emissive compounds in solutions to intensely luminescent materials upon aggregation.

This Spotlight Collection is focused on recent advances of AIE-active metal complexes published in Dalton Transactions, displaying the synthetic strategies for the preparation of new coordination motifs, their photophysical properties and their use as tuneable emissive materials in sensing-oriented and opto-electronic applications, aiming to define useful design principles for future improvements.

This collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Professor Paola Ceroni (University of Bologna, Italy), Dr Andrea Fermi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Professor Inamur R. Laskar (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India).

Prof Paola Ceroni

Dr Andrea Fermi

Prof Inamur Laskar

See the full collection as it grows on our collection webpage, and check out a selection of articles below:

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Cu(i) complexes with aggregation-induced emission for enhanced photodynamic antibacterial application Zhongxiang Zuo, Xinxin Pan, Ge Yang, Yuemin Zhang, Xingwen Liu, Jinrun Zha and Xun Yuan* Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 2942-2947
	Synthesis and photoluminescence of manganese(ii) naphtylphosphonic diamide complexes Marco Bortoluzzi*, Valentina Ferraro and Jesús Castro* Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 3132-3136
Using a diphenyl-bi-(1,2,4-triazole) tricarbonylrhenium(i) complex with intramolecular π–π stacking interaction for efficient solid-state luminescence enhancement (Open Access) Alexandre Poirot, Corinne Vanucci-Bacqué, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot, Clarisse Meslien,a   Nathalie Saffon-Merceron, Charles-Louis Serpentini, Florence Bedos-Belval, Eric Benoist and Suzanne Fery-Forgues* Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 5453-5465
	AIE-active Ir(iii) complexes as type-I dominant photosensitizers for efficient photodynamic therapy Jialin Tong, Xinyue Yang, Xiaoxian Song, Jie Liang*, Shanshan Huang, Huiting Mao*, Mansoor Akhtar, Ao Liu, Guo-Gang Shan* and Guangfu Li Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 1105-1112
A fluorescent turn-on probe for cyanide anion detection based on an AIE active cobalt(ii) complex Moustafa T. Gabr, and F. Christopher Pigge* Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 2079-2085
	Aqua-friendly organometallic Ir–Pt complexes: pH-responsive AIPE-guided imaging of bacterial cells Sakira Tabassum Borah, Bishnu Das, Prakash Biswas, Amirul I. Mallick* and Parna Gupta* Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 2282-2292

Among the immense disruption faced by the scientific community in 2020, one significant loss has been the cancellation or postponement of conferences, symposia, and other scientific meetings. Emerging investigators have been particularly effected by this, having lost the chance to present their research at a key stage in their career. Dalton Transactions, therefore, has decided to launch a desktop seminar series, aimed specifically at early career researchers and based on our popular New Talent series of themed issues.

The next desktop seminar is based on our 2018 themed issue, New Talent: Europe – attendance is free and registration is now open.

The seminar will be held on April 23, 2021 and will be chaired by Dalton Transactions Editorial Board Member, Professor Marinella Mazzanti. The talks will cover a wide spectrum of topics within inorganic chemistry, including metal-organic frameworks, bioinorganic chemistry, and organometallic chemistry.

Speakers: 

Professor Wendy Lee Queen EPFL Switzerland Talk Title: Realizing the global benefits of the world’s most porous materials To find out more about Professor Queen’s work, check out her article in the New Talent: Europe themed issue on Selective CO2 adsorption by a new metal–organic framework: synergy between open metal sites and a charged imidazolinium backbone. .
Dr Nicola Farrer University of Oxford, UK Talk Title: Metals in medicine: challenges and opportunities To find out more about Dr Farrer’s work, check out her article in the New Talent: Europe themed issue on Platinum(iv) azido complexes undergo copper-free click reactions with alkynes.
Dr Clément Camp CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France Talk Title: Cooperative Heterobimetallic C-H bond Activations at Supported Tantalum/Iridium Pair-site Catalysts To find out more about Dr Camp’s work, check out his recent article: Mechanistic investigations via DFT support the cooperative heterobimetallic C–H and O–H bond activation across TaIr multiple bonds. . .

Register now to attend these exciting talks!

https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/46391/dalton-transactions-new-talent-europe 

Future desktop seminars will include more speakers from our 2018 themed issue, New Talent: Europe, as well as our 2020 themed issue, New Talent: Americas, so watch this space for more details or sign up to our newsletter!  

Among the immense disruption faced by the scientific community in 2020, one significant loss has been the cancellation or postponement of conferences, symposia, and other scientific meetings. Emerging investigators have been particularly effected by this, having lost the chance to present their research at a key stage in their career. Dalton Transactions, therefore, has decided to launch a desktop seminar series, aimed specifically at early career researchers and based on our popular New Talent series of themed issues. The first of these desktop seminars is based on our 2019 themed issue, New Talent: Asia-Pacific, and registration is now open.

The seminar will be held on February 2, 2021 and will be chaired by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor, Vadapalli Chandrasekhar. The talks cover a wide spectrum of topics within inorganic chemistry, including bioinorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and molecular magnetism.

Speakers: 

Somdatta Ghosh-Dey Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India Talk Title: Small Molecule Interactions with Heme and Copper bound Amyloid β peptides associated with Alzheimer’s Disease To find out more about Professor Ghosh-Dey’s work, check out her article on Nitrite reductase activity of heme and copper bound Aβ peptides.
Tetsuro Kusamoto Institute for Molecular Science, Japan Talk Title: A Cu(II)-radical heterospin magnetic chain: temperature-dependent Jahn-Teller distortion correlated to π-conjugation and magnetic properties To find out more about Professor Kusamoto’s work, check out his article on One-dimensional magnetic chain composed of CuII and polychlorinated dipyridylphenylmethyl radical: temperature-dependent Jahn–Teller distortion correlated to π-conjugation and magnetic properties.
Suzanne Neville University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Talk Title: Spin crossover dinuclear complexes: ligand and guest effects To find out more about Professor Neville’s work, check our her article on Heteroatom substitution effects in spin crossover dinuclear complexes.

Register now to attend these exciting talks!

https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/45987/dalton-transactions-new-talent-asia-pacific

Future desktop seminars will be based on our 2018 themed issue, New Talent: Europe, and our 2020 themed issue, New Talent: Americas, so watch this space for more details or sign up to our newsletter!  

In November Dalton Transactions is holding a series of symposia on the theme of Advancing Inorganic Chemistry. These one-day meetings will be held in three different cities – Tianjin, Nanjing, and Shanghai  – and feature presentations on the cutting edge of inorganic chemistry by leading researchers from around the world.

Richard Layfield (University of Sussex, UK), Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Sascha Ott (Uppsala University, Sweden), and Christine Thomas (The Ohio State University, USA) will be joined by Guanqun Song (RSC Editorial Development Manager – Beijing) and Andrew Shore (Executive Editor – Dalton Transactions) as well leading researchers from the host cities.

The symposia give anyone with an interest in inorganic chemistry the opportunity to speak to leading researchers in the field as well as RSC editorial staff. There will also be poster sessions, giving early career researchers the chance to discuss their research in a relaxed setting.

We’ve put together a web collection of recent papers in Dalton Transactions by speakers and hosts at these events, or see below for more details and links to the registration pages for each event.

November 26th:Tianjin – REGISTER HERE

Hosted by Xianhe Bu (Nankai University) and featuring Chunming Cui (崔春明) (Nankai University), Yi Ding (丁轶) (Tianjin University of Technology), Lingdong Sun (孙聆东) (Peking University) and Ruqiang Zou (邹如强) (Peking University).

Hosted by Jinglin Zuo (Nanjing University) and featuring Jian-Ping Lang (郎建平) (Soochow University), Ming-Liang Tong (童明良) (Sun Yat-Sen University), Hai-Long Jiang (江海龙) (University of Science and Technology of China), and Jing Zhao (赵劲) (Nanjing University). 

November 30th:Shanghai – REGISTER HERE

Hosted by Dalton Transactions Associated Editor Guo-Xin Jin (Fudan University) and featuring  Qiaowei Li (李巧伟) (Fudan University), Yingfeng Han (韩英锋) (Northwest University), Chi Zhang (张弛) (Tongji University), and Yong Cui (崔勇) (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

Earlier this month the Workshop on Silicon Nanoparticles was held in Bertinoro, Italy. Organised by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Paola Ceroni (University of Bologna), the workshop gathered world-renowned scientists in the field of silicon nanocrystals and porous silicon, such as Leigh Canham (University of Birmingham, UK), Michael Sailor (University of California, San Diego, US), and Brian Korgel (University of Texas at Austin, US). The workshop was a great success, providing a forum to discuss the latest developments in the field and the most debated aspects related to properties of silicon nanoparticles.

Dalton Transactions was pleased to provide awards to the best Oral and Poster presentations.

The best oral presentation was awarded to Rens Limpens, for his talk entitled  “Carrier Dynamics and Mobilities in Doped Silicon Nanocrystals: When Do Free Carriers Matter?”

The best poster presentation was awarded to Sara Angeloni, for her poster entitled “9-10 Diphenyl Anthracene-functionalized Silicon Nanocrystals via covalent and non-covalent method“

This September saw the occasion of the UK-India Symposium on Advances in Inorganic chemistry, held at The University of Manchester. Jointly organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chemical Research Society of India, it is the fourth such meeting held in the UK. The purpose is encourage collaborations and discussion by bringing together world-renowned researchers from the respective countries. 

Dalton Transactions Editorial Board member V. Chandrasekhar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad) gave an excellent lecture on multiple bonding between heavier main-group elements. The journal was also on hand to provide prizes to the best poster presentations by early-career researchers.

The winners of the Dalton Transactions Outstanding Poster Presentation awards were:

Cordelia U. Dueke-Eze (University of Lagos, Nigeria) for her poster entitled Synthesis, Characterisation and antibacterial activity of halogen substituted Isonicotinic acid hydrazide Schiff bases and their Co(II) and Cu(II) complexes 

Vijay Parmer (The University of Manchester, UK) for his poster entitled Towards High-Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets 

Poster prizes were also awarded by The University of Manchester to Benjamin L. L. Réant, Jessica Cid, and Rosie Magnall.

Left-to-right: Cordelia U. Dueke-Eze, Vijay Parmer, Benjamin L. L. Réant, Jessica Cid, and Rosie Magnall receiving their poster prizes from Sourav Pal (IISER-Kolkata)

Dalton Transactions offer a huge congratulations to all poster prize winners!

This August saw the occasion of the 14th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC), held at the University of Birmingham in the UK. With an excellent line up of internationally renowned plenary and keynote speakers the event was a huge success, attracting around 400 attendees.

The Royal Society of Chemistry was pleased to support the event, offering poster prizes of books and book vouchers. The winners of RSC vouchers were:

• Raul Berrocal-Martin (University of Glasgow) – Dalton Transactions Poster Prize
• Wilma Neumann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Metallomics Poster Prize
• Ying Zhou (University of Hong Kong) – ChemComm Poster Prize
• Leon Jenner (University of East Anglia) – Chemical Science Poster Prize

The following presenters also won the RSC Highly Commended Poster Awards:

• Gloria Vigueras Bautista (University of Murcia)
• Nicolai Burzlaff (Friedrich-Alexander University)
• Samya Banerjee (University of Warwick)
• Riccardo Bonsignore (Cardiff University)
• Philip Ash (University of Oxford)

Dalton Transactions associate editor Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Chemical Science assistant editor William King were on hand to award the prizes.

Raul Berrocal-Martin (left) receiving the Dalton Transactions prize from Nils Metzler-Nolte (right)	Ying Zhou (left) receiving the ChemComm prize from Nils Metzler-Nolte (right)
Leon Jenner (left) receiving the Chemical Science prize from William King (right)	Gloria Vigueras Bautista (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right)
Riccardo Bonsignore (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right)	Philip Ash (left) receiving a Highly Commended Poster Prize from William King (right)

The RSC offers a hearty congratulations to all poster prize winners!

Next year the 19th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC 19) will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland – August 11th to 16th. The next European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC 15) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2020. 

This July saw the occasion of The 68th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC), held in Sendai. The event was a great success, featuring over 200 talks in both English and Japanese spread over six sessions as well as almost 300 posters.

	Professor Takahiko Kojima (right) receiving his JSCC Award for Creative Work from Professor Hiroshi Nishihara, JSCC president (left).

Dalton Transactions is pleased to sponsor the JSCC Award for Creative Work. This year the award was won by Professor Takahiko Kojima, who gave an excellent award lecture entitled Development of Functionality of Metal Complexes Based on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer.  Professor Kojima has been at the University of Tsukuba and has published over 150 works, including a recent review on the Characteristics and reactivity of ruthenium-oxo species.

	Graphical Abstract, T. Ishizuka, H. Kotani and T. Kojima, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 16727–16750

Dalton Transactions‘ Deputy Editor, Mike Andrews, and the RSC’s Editorial Development Manager for Japan, Hiromitsu Urakami, were on-hand to award poster prizes for the best student poster presentations.

		The Dalton Transactions Award went to Yuta Ohtsubo of Kyushu University, for his poster:  多孔性金属錯体を利用した水素分子の核スピン変換の促進 (Promotion of nuclear spin conversion of molecular hydrogen using a porous metal complex) Yuto Ohtsubo (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (centre) and Hiro Urakami (left)
		The CrystEngComm award went to Tomohiro Fujimoto of Osaka University, for his poster:  オスミウム錯体を触媒とするアルケンの1,2-アミノアルコール化反応における反応活性種の同定と反応性 (Identification and Reactivity of Active Species in the 1,2-Aminohydroxylation of Alkenes Catalyzed by an Osmium Complex) Tomohiro Fujimoto (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (left)
		The Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award went to Aoyama Tomokazu of Tokyo Metropolitan University for his poster: 水素生成を目指した新規水溶性超分子システムの調製と触媒機能 (Preparation and catalytic activity of a novel water-soluble supramolecular system aimed at hydrogen production) Aoyama Tomokazu (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (centre) and Hiro Urakami (left)

The poster prize winners received a journal certificate and a colour changing RSC mug!

The RSC offers a hearty congratulations to prize winners at the JSCC!

Chemical Communications, Chemical Science and Dalton Transactions are pleased to sponsor the 2018 Meeting of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed (MICRA). This biennial event is being organised by Dr Timothy Easun and Dr Rebecca Melen from Cardiff University, and is taking place on 10 – 12 September 2018 at Cardiff University in Wales.

The meeting brings together junior inorganic chemistry academics from across the UK to help aid their development into independent researchers through networking and exchanging experiences. MICRA 2018 will have exciting talks from experts such as Paul Saines (University of Kent), Timothy Easun (Cardiff University) and Rebecca Melen (Cardiff University).

For more information and to register, go to: https://www.micra2018.com/