Dalton Transactions Blog

As you know, we are celebrating the journal’s 40th birthday by counting down the Top 40 most cited Dalton Transactions articles according to ISI*. Finally the moment to reveal the Top 10 is upon us! Drum roll please…..what is at number 1? Will it be Queen or The Beatles…. neither of course, but you can find out what exciting paper made it to this top spot below.

In addition all of these articles will be FREE for you to read until the end of January 2011.  Catch up on the rest of the Top 40 articles and find out more about our plans for Dalton Transactions 40th birthday celebrations here.

10 Polymerization of lactide and related cyclic esters by discrete metal complexes
Brendan J. O’Keefe, Marc A. Hillmyer and William B. Tolman
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2001, 2215-2224 DOI: 10.1039/B104197P, Perspective

9 The rational design of high symmetry coordination clusters
Dana L. Caulder and Kenneth N. Raymond
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 1185-1200 DOI: 10.1039/A808370C, Paper

8 Highly active metallocene catalysts for olefin polymerization
Walter Kaminsky
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1998, 1413-1418 DOI: 10.1039/A800056E, Perspective

7 Getting excited about lanthanide complexation chemistry
David Parker and J. A. Gareth Williams
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1996, 3613-3628 DOI: 10.1039/DT9960003613, Paper

6 EQNMR: a computer program for the calculation of stability constants from nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift data
Michael J. Hynes
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1993, 311-312 DOI: 10.1039/DT9930000311, Paper

5 A net-based approach to coordination polymers
Richard Robson
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3735-3744 DOI: 10.1039/B003591M, Perspective

4 The phase behaviour of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborates; ionic liquids and ionic liquid crystals
John D. Holbrey and Kenneth R. Seddon
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 2133-2140 DOI: 10.1039/A902818H, Paper

3 Cationic Group 4 metallocene complexes and their role in polymerisation catalysis: the chemistry of well defined Ziegler catalysts
Manfred Bochmann
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1996, 255-270 DOI: 10.1039/DT9960000255, Paper

2 Engineering coordination polymers towards applications
Christoph Janiak
Dalton Trans., 2003, 2781-2804 DOI: 10.1039/B305705B, Perspective

1 A critical account on π–π stacking in metal complexes with aromatic nitrogen-containing ligands
Christoph Janiak
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3885-3896 DOI: 10.1039/B003010O, Paper

*Top cited articles according to ISI on the 17th November 2010 – please note our ISI data includes articles published from 1993-2010 only.

Some of our Top 40 authors such as Xiao-Ming Chen, Christoph Janiak and Keith Murray have already posted stories about their Top 40 papers on the blog. Why not join them in the discussion by posting your thoughts on our Top 10! 

Why do you think these papers have been so highly cited? Do you remember when these articles were first published? Perhaps they had an impact on your own research? We’d love to find out more – tell us by posting a comment on the blog in the box below……

We are at Dalton Transactions Top 20 most cited articles* now with the penultimate installment of our Top 40 Anniversary Countdown! We have made articles 20-11 FREE for you to read until the end of January – check them out below. Did you miss the previous installments of the countdown – catch up: Articles 40-31 and Articles 30-21.

Also Christoph Janiak, Stuart Batten, George Chen and Keith Murray tell us more about their Top 40 papers and Dalton Transactions last 40 years in their blog comments- read their views. Or why not join in the discussion yourself by posting a comment on this blog post below? Do you remember reading or citing any of these articles – let us know!

20 Covalent radii revisited
Beatriz Cordero, Verónica Gómez, Ana E. Platero-Prats, Marc Revés, Jorge Echeverría, Eduard Cremades, Flavia Barragán and Santiago Alvarez
Dalton Trans., 2008, 2832-2838    DOI: 10.1039/B801115J, Paper

19 Metal-based antitumour drugs in the post genomic era
Paul J. Dyson and Gianni Sava
Dalton Trans., 2006, 1929-1933   DOI: 10.1039/B601840H, Frontier 

18 Hydrothermal syntheses, structures and properties of terephthalate-bridged polymeric complexes with zig-zag chain and channel structures
Daofeng Sun, Rong Cao, Yucang Liang, Qian Shi, Weiping Su and Maochun Hong
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2001, 2335-2340   DOI: 10.1039/B102888J, Paper

17 Inorganic nanotubes
C. N. R. Rao and Manashi Nath
Dalton Trans., 2003, 1-24   DOI: 10.1039/B208990B, Perspective

16 Extended networks via hydrogen bond cross-linkages of [M(bipy)] (M = Zn2+ or Fe2+; bipy = 4,4′-bipyridyl) linear co-ordination polymers
Lucia Carlucci, Gianfranco Ciani, Davide M. Proserpio and Angelo Sironi
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1997, 1801-1804    DOI: 10.1039/A702146A, Paper

15 The bite angle makes the difference: a practical ligand parameter for diphosphine ligands
Peter Dierkes and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 1519-1530  DOI: 10.1039/A807799A, Paper

14 Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structures of three-dimensional co-ordination frameworks constructed with mixed terephthalate (tp) and 4,4′-bipyridine (4,4′-bipy) ligands: [M(tp)(4,4′-bipy)] (M = CoII, CdII or ZnII)
Jun Tao, Ming-Liang Tong and Xiao-Ming Chen
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2000, 3669-3674  DOI: 10.1039/B005438K, Paper

13 Molecular architecture of cyclic nanostructures: use of co-ordination chemistry in the building of supermolecules with predefined geometric shapes
Bogdan Olenyuk, Andreas Fechtenkötter and Peter J. Stang
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1998, 1707-1728   DOI: 10.1039/A801057I, Paper

12 Alkane C–H activation and functionalization with homogeneous transition metal catalysts: a century of progress—a new millennium in prospect
Robert H. Crabtree
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2001, 2437-2450   DOI: 10.1039/B103147N, Perspective

11 Solvent extraction of strontium nitrate by a crown ether using room-temperature ionic liquids
Sheng Dai, Y. H. Ju and C. E. Barnes
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 1201-1202   DOI: 10.1039/A809672D, Paper 

Top 10 coming soon on the Dalton Transactions Blog! What will be at number one?

*Top cited articles according to ISI on the 17th November 2010 – please note ISI data includes articles published from 1993-2010 only.