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

Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry

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.

Make the most of the free to access period by browsing the collection today!

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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

 

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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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Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award 2022

We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.

The Outstanding Paper Award is a new award 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.

Conformationally dynamic copper coordination complexes

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

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 6212-6219

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.

 

Meet the authors of this outstanding paper

Lisa Olshansky

Lisa Olshansky is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UIUC. She received her PhD from MIT in 2015. Her current research focuses on mimicking the ways that biological systems efficiently interconvert different forms of energy. Specifically, she hypothesizes that there is a critical interplay between macroscopic changes in molecular structure and subatomic changes in electronic structure that can be leveraged for diverse applications ranging from solar energy conversion to biomedical research. Olshansky has been named a Searle, Vallee, and Cottrell Scholar, a Kavli fellow (2022), and has received early career research awards from the NIH and DOE.

 
Bronte Charette

Bronte obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Winnipeg where she began her research career in synthetic inorganic chemistry which she continued during her M.Sc. studies under the supervision of Prof. Jamie Ritch at the University of Manitoba. In 2021, Bronte received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine as a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Alan Heyduk. Her postdoctoral work with Prof. Lisa Olshansky focused on synthesizing switchable transition metal complexes for renewable energy conversion strategies. Bronte is excited to start her independent career as an assistant professor at UC Davis this summer.

Paul Griffin

Paul Griffin received his bachelor’s in chemistry and philosophy (2016) and his Master’s in chemistry (2018) from the University of Scranton. His master’s research was conducted under Dr Art Catino in which he developed a general approach to synthesize substituted tetraarylmethanes. Paul recently obtained his PhD in inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2023), where he works with Lisa Olshansky to study the relationship between conformational dynamics, photochemistry, and electron transfer in copper coordination complexes. Paul is passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists and explores his philosophy interests by having riveting discussions with his cat, Mookie.

Claire Zimmerman

Claire completed her B.S. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under Dr Lisa Olshansky. She is currently in her first year of graduate studies at the University of California Irvine with Dr Jenny Yang.

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Spotlight Collection: Fluorinated ligands

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

This collection focuses on fluorinated ligands and their effects on physical properties and chemical reactivity.

Fluorine embodies reactivity and inertness, both of which are exploited by inorganic chemists. It is the most electronegative element in the periodic table (3.98 on the Pauling scale) and has a remarkably high reduction potential (2.87 V).  The van der Waals and covalent radii of fluorine are quite short (ranked third, only after the first-row elements hydrogen and helium), making it unusually small for its atomic number. The homonuclear bond in F2 is particularly reactive while some heteronuclear bonds involving fluorine are remarkably stable. The combined effects of these features on fluorine-containing molecules are often unmatched by any other element, for example with carbon, where it forms very robust, chemically inert single bonds; the BDE of C-F compared to C-H bonds in CF4 and CH4 are 546.8 and 439.3 kJ/mol, respectively.

Metal complexes of fluorinated ligands in comparison to their non-fluorinated, hydrocarbon counterparts, usually display different properties such as relatively high thermal and oxidative stability, volatility, diminished vibrational modes and shifted spectroscopic features (absorption and emission), as well as unique reactivity profiles. They are also ideal for applications in fluorous-biphase media and supercritical CO2. Additionally, fluorine containing anions such as [BF4], [SbF6], [B(C6F5)4], and [B{3,5-(CF3)2C6H3}4]− are among the weakest donors known. This Spotlight collection brings together contributions by leading researchers on this topic to highlight some of the fascinating developments in fluorinated supporting ligands, C-F inertness, electron-withdrawing effects of fluoro-substituents, the weakly-coordinating nature of fluorinated anions, efforts to functionalize C-F bonds, and species that selectively deliver F, F· and F.

This collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Advisory Board member Professor Rasika Dias, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, and Professor Linda Doerrer, Boston University, USA.

Professor Linda Doerrer

Professor Rasika Dias

 

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Oxidation of europium with ammonium perfluorocarboxylates in liquid ammonia: pathways to europium(ii) carboxylates and hexanuclear europium(iii) fluoridocarboxylate complexes (Open Access)

Florian Morsbach, Steffen Klenner, Rainer Pöttgen and Walter Frank*
Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 4814-4828

 

Facile preparation of a cobalt diamine diketonate adduct as a potential vapor phase precursor for Co3O4films

Max Klotzsche, Davide Barreca*, Lorenzo Bigiani, Roberta Seraglia,  Alberto Gasparotto, Laura Vanin, Christian Jandl, Alexander Pöthig,  Marco Roverso, Sara Bogialli, Gloria Tabacchi*, Ettore Fois,  Emanuela Callone, Sandra Dirè and Chiara Maccato

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 10374-10385

Investigation of the biological and photophysicochemical properties of new non-peripheral fluorinated phthalocyanines

Çetin Çelik, Nazli Farajzadeh, MustafaAkın, Göknur Yaşa Atmaca,  Özgül Sağlam, Neslihan Şaki*, Ali Erdoğmuş* and Makbule Burkut Koçak*

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 2736-2745

Iridium complexes of an ortho-trifluoromethylphenyl  substituted PONOP pincer ligand (Open Access)

Ethan W. Poole, Itxaso Bustos, Thomas M. Hood, Jennifer E. Smart and Adrian B. Chaplin*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 1096-1104

From ferrocene to 1,2,3,4,5-pentafluoroferrocene: halogen effect on the properties of metallocene

William Erb*, Nicolas Richy, Jean-Pierre Hurvois*, Paul J. Low* and  Florence Mongin

Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 16933-16938

Anionic N-heterocyclic carbenes featuring weakly coordinating perfluoroalkylphosphorane moieties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dalton Transactions’ highest cited papers in 2022

As part of our Dalton Transactions up-and-coming articles web collection, we want to highlight our highest cited articles for 2022 (those published in 2021 with the highest number of citations in 2022) from various research areas within inorganic chemistry.

This web collection brings together articles that made waves in the inorganic chemistry community in 2022. These are Dalton Transactions’ top 1% highest cited or most downloaded articles in 2022.

Check out the full list of our highest cited articles in the table below (in order of descending number of citations*):

Title  Year   Citations*
Recent progress on pristine two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks as active components in supercapacitors 2021 54
  OctaDist: a tool for calculating distortion parameters in spin crossover and coordination complexes 2021 51
  Promoting urea oxidation and water oxidation through interface construction on a CeO2@CoFe2O4 heterostructure 2021 42
  Recent advances in metal-organic framework-based electrode materials for supercapacitors 2021 40
  Recent advances in molecular logic gate chemosensors based on luminescent metal organic frameworks 2021 40
  Recent advances in metal-organic frameworks as adsorbent materials for hazardous dye molecules 2021 37
  A new magnetic adsorbent of eggshell-zeolitic imidazolate framework for highly efficient removal of norfloxacin 2021 34
  A review of the recent progress on heterogeneous catalysts for Knoevenagel condensation 2021 32
  A novel Cr3+-doped Lu2CaMg2Si3O12 garnet phosphor with broadband emission for near-infrared applications 2021 32
  Highlights of the development and application of luminescent lanthanide based coordination polymers, MOFs and functional nanomaterials 2021 30
  A robust 3D zinc(II)-organic framework for efficient dual detection of acetylacetone and Tb3+ ions 2021 25
  Luminescent metal-organic frameworks as chemical sensors based on “mechanism-response”: a review 2021 23
  Recent strategies to improve the photoactivity of metal-organic frameworks 2021 23
  ESIPT-AIE active Schiff base based on 2-(2 ‘-hydroxyphenyl)benzo-thiazole applied as multi-functional fluorescent chemosensors 2021 23
  Molecular assemblies from linear-shaped Ln(4) clusters to Ln(8) clusters using different beta-diketonates: disparate magnetocaloric effects and single-molecule magnet behaviours 2021 23
  Recent progresses in luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs) as sensors for the detection of anions and cations in aqueous solution 2021 22
  A review on the recently developed promising infrared nonlinear optical materials 2021 22
  Synthesis and control strategies of nanomaterials for photoelectrochemical water splitting 2021 22
  Organoselenium ligands for heterogeneous and nanocatalytic systems: development and applications 2021 22
  A water-stable multi-responsive luminescent Zn-MOF sensor for detecting TNP, NZF and Cr2O72- in aqueous media 2021 20
  Selective construction and stability studies of a molecular trefoil knot and Solomon link 2021 20

*citation data according to Scopus

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Dalton Transactions’ most downloaded papers from 2022

We are delighted to announce our new web collection: Dalton Transactions up-and-coming articles

This web collection brings together articles that made waves in the inorganic chemistry community in 2022. These are Dalton Transactions’ top 1% highest cited or most downloaded articles in 2022.

See the full collection on our collection webpage, and check out a selection of the most downloaded articles below:


Hydrogen-atom and oxygen-atom transfer reactivities of iron(iv)-oxo complexes of quinoline-substituted pentadentate ligands (Open Access)

Sandip Munshi, Arup Sinha, Solomon Yiga, Sridhar Banerjee, Reena Singh, Md. Kamal Hossain, Matti Haukka, Andrei Felipe Valiati, Ricardo Dagnoni Huelsmann, Edmar Martendal, Rosely Peralta, Fernando Xavier Ola F. Wendt, Tapan K. Paine and Ebbe Nordlander

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 870-884

John Dalton – the man and the myth (Open Access)

Edwin C. Constable

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 768-776

Photoinduced Jahn–Teller switch in Mn(iii) terpyridine complexes (Open Access)

Kyle Barlow, Julien Eng, Iona Ivalo, Marco Coletta, Euan K. Brechin, Thomas J. Penfold and J. Olof Johansson

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 10751-10757

Influence of the spatial distribution of copper sites on the selectivity of the oxygen reduction reaction (Open Access)

N. W. G. Smits, D. Rademaker, A. I. Konovalov, M. A. Siegler and D. G. H. Hetterscheid

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 1206-1215

Ruthenium-nitrosyl complexes as NO-releasing molecules, potential anticancer drugs, and photoswitches based on linkage isomerism (Open Access)

Iryna Stepanenko, Michal Zalibera, Dominik Schaniel, Joshua Telser and Vladimir B. Arion

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 5367-5393

CO2 capture from ambient air via crystallization with tetraalkylammonium hydroxides (Open Access)

Manish Kumar Mishra, Volodymyr Smetana, Ethan A. Hiti, Hannah B. Wineinger, Fengrui Qu, Anja-Verena Mudring and  Robin D. Rogers

Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 17724-17732

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Dalton Transactions welcomes new Associate Editor Neal Mankad

We are delighted to welcome our new Associate Editor Professor Neal Mankad to the Dalton Transactions Editorial Board!

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.

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

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry

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 22 May 2023! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between January – March 2023.

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HOT Articles – Online now and free to access

Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry

We have updated our reviewer recommended ‘HOT articles’ for 2022.

We update our HOT articles collection quarterly and make the selected articles free to access until 20 February 2023! This collection represents the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions between October – December 2022.

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