Issue 40 of the 40th volume of Dalton Transactions has now been published online!
This celebratory issue showcases work from current and past Editorial and Advisory Board Members from across the field of inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry. Dalton Transactions is a fantastic journal to be involved in, with its long history, growing impact factor and size and enthusiastic readers and authors. We are particularly appreciative of all the dedication and hard work put in by our Editorial Board members over the years, which has made Dalton Trans. the journal it is today.
Our Editorial Board Chair, Professor Chris Orvig is the guest editor of this issue and I’d recommend reading his editorial introducing this collection of great articles – Chris has been the chair of Dalton Transactions for four years now, and it has been a pleasure for all of us here in the Editorial Office to work with him during this time!
The issue contains four Perspective articles by Peter Scott, Ekke Hahn, Lars Kloo and Seiji Ogo, a Frontier article by Neil Champness, two communications and an excellent collection of full research papers from internationally recognised inorganic chemists. Read Issue 40 online today!
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Peter Sadler from Warwick University, and collaborators at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a ruthenium arene anticancer complex that inhibits the action of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B, which regulates insulin levels.
Suning Wang from Queen’s University, Canada, looks at how electron accepting triarylboranes can be used in optoelectronic applications in this Dalton Transactions Perspective article.
In this HOT Article, the serendipitous self-assembly of the complex [MnIII2ZnII2(Ph-sao)2(Ph-saoH)4(hmp)2], whose magnetic core consists solely of two symmetry equivalent Mn(III) ions linked by two symmetry equivalent –N–O– moieties, provided Brechin and co-workers with a relatively simple model complex with which to study the magneto-structural relationships in more complicated polynuclear oxime-bridged Mn(III) cluster compounds.
In this HOT article, Díaz-Torres and Alvarez have developed a scale which attempts to quantify the weakly coordinating character of a variety of solvents and anions towards a transition metal or a lanthanide. This was made possible by analyzing crystal structures for the presence of coordinated and uncoordinated groups (solvents or anions) in the presence of a transition metal or a lanthanide and extracting from this coordinating ability indices. These indices should prove very useful in providing general trends allowing comparison between different solvents or anions and should be very useful for the broad organometallic community.
In this HOT article, Cade and Hill describe the synthesis of a salt of the 1-borabenzonitrile anion as its tetrabutylammonium salt and a preliminary exploration of its coordination chemistry in which it behaves as neither a conventional nitrile nor an isonitrile. The authors present computational, spectroscopic and crystallographic evidence for the heterocycle and a ruthenium complex containing the anion as an “arene” ligand.