Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award 2023

We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2023 Outstanding Paper Award.

The Outstanding Paper Award is aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. The process for selecting the winner involves the shortlisting of papers published in the journal within the previous year based on nominations by members of the Editorial Board as well as a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score and citations. The Editorial Board then votes on this shortlist to select the winner.

Construction of Pd-based coordination cages with three geometrically distinct ligands

Ru-Jin Li, Jean de Montmollin, Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, Rosario Scopelliti and Kay Severin*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6451-6456

Graphical abstract for article: d3dt00248a.

In this outstanding article, the authors combined three different dipyridyl ligands with [Pd(CH3CN)4](BF4)2 to give mixtures of homo- and/or heteroleptic coordination cages. They found that the structural flexibility of ligands with alkynyl spacers were important for the formation of the heteroleptic complexes.

 

Meet the authors of this outstanding paper

Kay Severin

Kay Severin is professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research group works on synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry, with projects ranging from small molecule activation (the chemistry of laughing gas) to the construction of functional nanostructures.

 Photograph of Kay Severin.
Photograph of Ru-Jin Li. Ru-Jin Li

Ru-Jin Li obtained his PhD in 2019 from TU Dortmund under the supervision of Prof. Guido H. Clever. He then continued his passion in supramolecular chemistry as postdoctoral researcher in  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Prof. Kay Severin. Since 2023, He joined China BlueChemical Ltd. (“CBC”), a modern large-scale enterprise under China National Offshore Oil Corporation (“CNOOC”). He currently focuses on developing environmentally friendly technologies for the Marine Gas industry, and sustainable technologies for direct air capture (DAC) and CO2 conversion.

Jean de Montmollin

Jean de Montmollin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Sciences with majors in Chemistry and Materials Science from ETH Zürich. During his studies, he conducted research projects in the field of organic and inorganic chemistry under Prof. Antonio Togni (aryl-SF2CF3 compounds), Prof. Bill Morandi (ambiphilic ligands) and Prof. Maksym Kovalenko (metal-organic frameworks). Since 2022 he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Kay Severin on palladium-based metal-organic cages of low symmetry.

Photograph of Jean de Montmollin.
 Photograph of Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani. Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani

Farzaneh obtained her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2013. During her PhD and a post-doctoral stay at EPFL, she discovered her passion for crystallography. In 2016, she began working for ISIC and became tenured in 2019. She is routinely solving structures of small molecules, supramolecular assemblies and MOFs. She is particularly interested in phase transitions of perovskites and modulated organic molecules. She also enjoys teaching and training the users of the Open Access Facility at the EPFL.

Rosario Scopelliti

Rosario Scopelliti was born in 1967 in Italy and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Messina (Italy). He moved the same year to the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), working in Carlo Floriani’s group, mainly taking care about crystal structures. He joined EPFL (Switzerland) in 2001 and has been working – since then – in the XRD service of the school.

Photograph of Rosario Scopelliti.
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We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2024.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 17 May 2024! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between January – March 2024.

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We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2023.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 20 February 2024! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between October – December 2023.

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Dalton Transactions highlights from 2023

Happy New Year from the Dalton Transactions Editorial Office!

In 2023, Dalton Transactions published 48 issues with over 1800 articles, including 81 Frontier and Perspectives review articles, from 60 countries. With over 3 million article downloads, you can be confident that your article has excellent visibility.

We would also like share with you some highlights from Dalton Transactions in 2023, including our outstanding paper award, themed collections, and our most popular articles.


Meet our new Associate Editors

We were delighted to welcome Neal Mankad and Eric Rivard as Associate Editors to the journal in 2023. Read on to find out more about them and meet our full Editorial Board here.

Neal Mankad

Professor Neal Mankad, University of Illinois Chicago

Neal P. Mankad received his S.B. in chemistry from MIT in 2004 after having conducted undergraduate research with Prof. Joseph P. Sadighi on copper N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. In 2010, Neal earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech as an NSF graduate research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Jonas C. Peters, working on biomimetic and bioinspired complexes of copper and iron. During 2010-2012, he was an NIH postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, with Prof. F. Dean Toste studying fundamental organometallic chemistry of gold.

Since 2012, Neal has been an independent faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where his group focuses on synthetic inorganic and organometallic systems relevant to chemical sustainability. Selected research awards earned by Neal include the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). He has also gained distinction for excellence in teaching, including by the UIC Teaching Recognition Program.

Eric Rivard

Professor Eric Rivard, University of Alberta

Eric Rivard completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ian Manners in 2004. After NSERC sponsored postdoctoral work with Professors Jonas Peters (Caltech) and Philip Power (University of California, Davis), and a research stay with Professor Cameron Jones (Monash University), he joined the University of Alberta in 2008 where he is now a Full Professor. He has given over 200 invited lectures worldwide and has published around 150 articles. He was the inaugural 2016 Michael Lappert Lecturer from the RSC, an RCMS Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (2016), an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow (2017), held visiting fellowships in 2015 and 2023 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), was a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (2023), and won the 2018 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure and Applied Inorganic Chemistry (Canadian Society for Chemistry). The Rivard group studies fundamental low-coordinate and main group chemistry, catalysis, semiconducting material synthesis, and the development of phosphorescent materials and conjugated polymers based on inorganic elements.

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2023 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award Winners

The Outstanding Paper Award is a new award aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. This year’s winners were Bronte Charette, Lisa Olshansky, Paul Griffin and Claire Zimmerman for their paper:

Conformationally dynamic copper coordination complexes

Bronte J. Charette, Paul J. Griffin, Claire M. Zimmerman and Lisa Olshansky*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 6212-6219

Graphical Abstract from Dalton Transactions paper: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT00312K

In this outstanding article, the authors explored the interplay between molecular and electronic structure for a series of Cu(I) and Cu(II) complexes with dpaR ligands through various spectroscopic and physical techniques.


Themed Collections

Find out more about the themed collections we have launched in 2023, including:

Spotlight Collection: Inorganic Molecular Electronics

Highlighting recent developments in the application of the structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of inorganic and organometallic complexes in molecular electronics.

Guest Editors:

Cláudio Verani, Wayne State University

Paul Low, University of Western Australia

New Talent: Asia Pacific, 2023

Includes recent research and reviews by early career researchers in the Asia-Pacific region, highlighting the achievements of emerging scientists in the field of inorganic chemistry

Guest Editors:

Jitendra K. Bera, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Sally Brooker, University of Otago

Takashi Uemura, University of Tokyo

Li-Min Zheng, Nanjing University

 

Themed Collections still open for submissions:

Intercalation Compounds: properties, mechanisms and advanced applications

Submission deadline: 31st January 2024

Guest Editors:

Chiara Bisio, University of Eastern Piedmont Sebastien Cahen, Institut Jean Lamour – CNRS-Université de Lorraine

Fabrice Leroux, University of Clermont-Ferrand

Recent Progress and Perspectives on Spin Transition Compounds

Submission deadline: 16th February 2024

Guest Editors:

Shinya Hayami, Kumamoto University

Malcolm Halcrow, University of Leeds

Birgit Weber, University of Jena

 

If you would like to contribute to any of the above collections, please email dalton-rsc@rsc.org.


Most popular articles from 2023

We are pleased to share a selection of our most popular articles from 2023 – all free to access until July 2024.

Graphical Abstract from Dalton Transactions paper: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DT00413A

Current status and prospects of MOFs in controlled delivery of Pt anticancer drugs

Jinyi Chen, Zhixin Zhang, Jiaxin Ma, Alireza Nezamzadeh-Ejhieh, Chengyu Lu, Ying Pan*, Jianqiang Liu* and Zhi Bai*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6226-6238

Graphical Abstract from Dalton Transactions paper: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DT00199G

The perfluoroadamantoxy aluminate as an ideal weakly coordinating anion? – synthesis and first applications

Andreas Billion, Marcel Schorpp, Rebecca Feser, Manuel Schmitt, Lea Eisele, Harald Scherer, Takaaki Sonoda, Hajimu Kawa, Burkhard Butschke and Ingo Krossing*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 4355-4370


We would like to thank you for your continued support of Dalton Transactions and wish you all the best for 2024.

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Dalton Transactions welcomes new Associate Editor Eric Rivard

We are delighted to welcome our new Associate Editor Professor Eric Rivard from the University of Alberta to the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board!

Eric Rivard completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ian Manners in 2004. After NSERC sponsored postdoctoral work with Professors Jonas Peters (Caltech) and Philip Power (University of California, Davis), and a research stay with Professor Cameron Jones (Monash University), he joined the University of Alberta in 2008 where he is now a Full Professor. He has given over 200 invited lectures worldwide and has published around 150 articles. He was the inaugural 2016 Michael Lappert Lecturer from the RSC, an RCMS Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (2016), an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow (2017), held visiting fellowships in 2015 and 2023 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), was a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University (2023), and won the 2018 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure and Applied Inorganic Chemistry (Canadian Society for Chemistry). The Rivard group studies fundamental low-coordinate and main group chemistry, catalysis, semiconducting material synthesis, and the development of phosphorescent materials and conjugated polymers based on inorganic elements.

 

Find out more about Eric on his website and submit your article to him today!

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We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2023.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 13 November 2023! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between July – September 2023.

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Spotlight Collection: Aggregation Induced Luminescence of Metal Complexes

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:


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

 

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Spotlight Collection: Photoinduced Redox Chemistry

We are delighted to announce our new spotlight collection on Photoinduced redox chemistry. Spotlight Collections are ongoing themed collections highlighting the best past and present work in Dalton Transactions.

This collection demonstrates the incredible breadth of ground-breaking research being undertaken in the area of photoinduced redox chemistry all over the world.

Many classes of inorganic complexes and materials can participate in photoinduced redox chemistry, in which absorption of a photon generates an excited state that then undergoes an electron-transfer event with a redox partner. Many classes of inorganic compounds spanning a large portion of the periodic table, including transition metal and f-element coordination compounds, organometallic complexes, MOFs, nanomaterials, and extended inorganic solids, can undergo photoinduced redox chemistry. Fundamental studies of the thermodynamics and kinetics of these excited-state redox processes remain important, as they continue to reveal key insights into how ligand design, electron configuration, molecular structure, crystal structure, environment and composition affect the excited-state redox chemistry of these many categories of inorganic compounds. Moreover, photoinduced charge transport processes involving inorganic compounds are important elementary steps in several applications, including but not limited to solar fuels, organic photoredox catalysis, dye-sensitized solar cells, and photodynamic therapy.

This Spotlight Collection covers various aspects of photoinduced redox chemistry in inorganic compounds including excited-state redox processes involving new inorganic materials, the development of novel systems for studying and optimizing these processes, and studies using known compounds for applications related to photoinduced charge transport, highlighting the important roles that existing inorganic compounds can play in these areas. This collection will showcase the combined roles that synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, including time-resolved spectroscopy and computational studies, play in driving fundamental and applied research in this continually evolving field of research.

This collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Advisory Board member Prof. Thomas Teets (University of Houston), Prof. Dr. Katja Heinze (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and Prof. Paul Elliott (University of Huddersfield).

Prof Paul Elliott

Prof Dr Katja Heinze

Prof Thomas Teets

 

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


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The role of photoinduced charge transfer for photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis and luminescence sensing in metal–organic frameworks

Xinlin Li, Sreehari Surendran Rajasree, Jierui Yu and Pravas Deria*
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 12892-12917

Mapping the influence of ligand electronics on the spectroscopic and 1O2 sensitization characteristics of Pd(ii) biladiene complexes bearing phenyl–alkynyl groups at the 2- and 18-positions

Maxwell I. Martin, Trong-Nhan Pham, Kaytlin N. Ward, Anthony T. Rice, Phoebe R. Hertler, Glenn P. A. Yap, Philip H. Gilmartina and Joel Rosenthal*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 7512-7523

Evaluating the photophysical and photochemical characteristics of green-emitting cerium(iii) mono-cyclooctatetraenide complexes

Pragati Pandey, Qiaomu Yang, Michael R. Gau and Eric J. Schelter*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 5909-5917

Mechanistic insights into template-driven polyoxovanadate self-assembly: the role of internal and external templates

Stefan Repp, Kim Lara Junginger, Dieter Sorsche, Theresa Zorn, Ann-Christin Pöppler,* Yuji Kikukawa,* Yoshihito Hayashi* and Carsten Streb*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 4002-4007

Visible light induced formation of a tungsten hydride complex

Diane P. Isaacs, Cole T. Gruninger, Tao Huang, Aldo M. Jordan, Genique Nicholas, Chun-Hsing Chen, Marc A. ter Horst and Jillian L. Dempsey*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 3210-3218

 

Photoinduced electron transfer in non-covalent complexes of C60 and phosphangulene oxide derivatives

 

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

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We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2023.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 18 August 2023! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between April – June 2023.

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Spotlight Collection: Metallocycles and Metallocages

We are delighted to announce our new spotlight collection on Metallocycles and Metallocages. Spotlight Collections are ongoing themed collections highlighting the best past and present work in Dalton Transactions.

This collection demonstrates the amazing breadth of ground-breaking research being undertaken in the area of metallocycles and metallocages all over the world.

Metallocycles and metallocages are discrete, 2D and 3D metal-organic architectures. These beautiful and often complex structures can be formed from relatively simple building blocks through self-assembly processes centred around transition metal and lanthanide coordination chemistry. The diversity of accessible topologies and sizes, combined with their well-defined cavities, make them fascinating synthetic targets and attractive hosts in supramolecular chemistry. This Spotlight Collection aims to celebrate recent developments in the field, highlighting both fundamental and applied research.

Fundamental research into the construction and structural interconversion of new cages and metallocycles remains a valuable and popular research topic, while new and varied applications of these structures continue to develop and expand. Examples found within this collection include studies of spin and magnetism, hierarchical self-assembly into gels and applications in catalysis, separations, cancer therapeutics and optical detection.

This collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Advisory Board member Professor Lin Xu (East China Normal University), alongside Dr Cally Haynes (University College London) and Dr James Lewis (Imperial College London).

Dr Jamie Lewis

Dr Cally Haynes

Professor Lin Xu

 

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


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Ruthenium-based assemblies incorporating tetrapyridylporphyrin panels: a photosensitizer delivery strategy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by photodynamic therapy

Manuel Gallardo-Villagrán, Lucie Paulus, Jean-Louis Charissoux, David Yannick Leger, Pascale Vergne-Salle, Bruno Therrien*and Bertrand Liagre*
Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 9673-9680

 
 

The rigidity of self-assembled cofacial porphyrins influences selectivity and kinetics of oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

Daoyang Zhang, Matthew R. Crawley, Ming Fang, Lea J. Kyle and Timothy R. Cook*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 18373-18377

Hydrazone- and imine-containing [PdPtL4]4+ cages: a comparative study of the stability and host–guest chemistry

Lynn S. Lisboa*, Mie Riisom, Henry J. Dunne, Dan Preston, Stephen M. F. Jamieson, L. James Wright, Christian G. Hartinger and James D. Crowley*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 18438-18445

Diastereoselectively self-sorted low-symmetry binuclear metallomacrocycle and trinuclear metallocage

Srabani Srotoswini Mishra and Dillip Kumar Chand*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 11650-11657

Inside or outside the box? Effect of substrate location on coordination-cage based catalysis (Open Access)

Atena B. Solea, Burin Sudittapong, Christopher G. P. Taylor and Michael D. Ward*

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 11277-11285

 

Substrate and product binding inside a stimuli-responsive coordination cage acting as a singlet oxygen photosensitizer (Open Access)

 

 

 

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