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4th International Conference on Organometallic and Catalysis 2018 (OM&Cat 2018)

16 Jan 2018

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Organic Chemistry Frontiers are very pleased to be sponsoring the 4th International Conference on Organometallic and Catalysis 2018 (OM&Cat 2018) that will take place in Taipei, Taiwan from June 22-25, 2018.

Dr Daping Zhang, Executive Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Organic Chemistry Frontiers will be also attending this event. Please let us know if you wish to talk to him about the Journals.

The OM&Cat has been taking place every two years since 2012. Previous OM&Cat conferences were held in Beijing (China, 2012), Nara (Japan, 2014), and Seoul (Korea, 2016). Over the years, this conference has become an important global event in the areas of organometallics and catalysis; the attendees often exceed 300 and more. The scientific program for OM&Cat 2018 conference will include two and half-one day lectures including plenary, invited and invited young lecturers in a single-session. Poster sessions will also be planned to highlight original and innovative ideas.

Important dates

January 1, 2018
Opening for Abstract Submission and Registration
April 10, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
April 20, 2018
Notification of Abstract Submission Acceptance
April 30, 2018
Early Registration Deadline

Grab you chance to submit the abstract and register the OM&Cat 2018!

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24 Frontiers board members achieve the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list

20 Dec 2017

We are proud to announce that Clarivate Analytics names 24 Board members of Frontiers journals as Highly Cited Researchers for 2017, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and publication year. Congratulations!

Those recognized represent the Editorial Board and Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Organic Chemistry Frontiers and the new journal Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

The board members are:

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Editorial Board

Song Gao, Peking University, China

Jun Chen, Nankai University, China

Yi Lu, University of Illinois, USA

Guy Bertrand, University of California, San Diego, USA

Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China

Advisory Board

Christopher J Chang, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Yi Cui, Stanford University, USA

Xile Hu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, USA

Yadong Li, Tsinghua University, China

Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, USA

Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Chunhua Yan, Peking University, China

Hong-Cai Joe Zhou, Texas A&M University, USA

Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany

Matthias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany

Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Guillermo C Bazan, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago, USA

Bin Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

He Tian, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Juyoung Yoon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Hua Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Click here for the full listing from Clarivate Analytics.

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Meet Professor Stefanie Dehnen

16 Nov 2017

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to welcome Professor Stefanie Dehnen of Philipps University of Marburg to the Editorial Board of the journal!

Stefanie Dehnen obtained her diploma in 1993 and her doctoral degree in 1996 from the University of Karlsruhe (KIT) under the supervision of Dieter Fenske on experimental and theoretical investigations of copper sulfide and selenide clusters. After a postdoctoral stay with Reinhart Ahlrichs (1997) she completed her Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry in 2004. In the same year she was awarded the Wöhler Young Scientists Award from the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh). In 2005, she received a Heisenberg Grant from German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and the State-of-Baden-Württemberg Teaching Award. Since 2006 she has been Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Philipps University of Marburg. In 2006, she also became Director and from 2012-2014, she was Executive Director of the Scientific Center of Materials Science at Philipps-Universität Marburg. She is currently an elected member of the Board of the Division for Inorganic Chemistry (Wöhler-Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie) at GDCh, elected member and spokesperson of the Review Board (Fachkollegium) for Molecular Chemistry at DFG, and Editorial Board or Editorial Advisory Board Member of several scientific journals. As from 2016, she has been a full member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanity (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen) and a full member of Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz).

Her current research interests comprise synthesis, formation mechanisms, stability, reactivity, and physical properties of compounds with binary and ternary chalcogenidometalate anions, organotetrel chalcogenide compounds, binary Zintl anions and ternary intermetalloid clusters.

Check some of her recent publications

	Syntheses and properties of selenido mercurates with [HgSe₂]^2– anions in diverse chemical environments Inorg. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 336–342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6QI00481D
	Between Localization and Delocalization: Ru(cod)²⁺ Units in the Zintl Clusters [Bi9{Ru(cod)}₂]^3– and [Tl₂Bi₆{Ru(cod)}]^2– Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 13253–13258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201707632
	(Ge₄Bi1₄)⁴⁻: A Case of Element Segregation on the Molecular Level Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3098–3102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201611422
	Synthesis, structure and thermolysis of oxazagermines and oxazasilines New J. Chem. 2017, 41, 4990–4997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7NJ00894E

Learn more about Professor Dehnen, please visit her personal webpage.

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Congratulations to the RSC prize winners at the 67th JSCC symposium!

02 Nov 2017

Earlier this year the 67th conference of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) was held at Hokkaido University, co-organised by The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). Including both fundamental and applied work on synthesis and properties of coordination compounds, encompassing organometallics and bioinorganic chemistry, the event was a huge success with over 1000 attendees. More than 150 talks, in English and in Japanese, were given over three days, including Award Lectures by world-renowned academics Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley), Yoshiaki Nishibayashi (University of Toyko), Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University), and Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge).

A number of presentation slots were also allocated to students, and the RSC was on-hand to offer poster prizes. This year saw the presentation of the inaugural Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers awards as well as the eighth year running that Dalton Transactions and CrystEngComm have awarded prizes at this event. Out of a total of 460 poster presentations, the award winners were:

		An Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award for outstanding poster presentation went to Yoshiyuke Takemoto, of Nagoya Institute of Technology, for his poster entitled “Catalytic silylation of N2 by use of T-shaped cobalt complex bearing iminophosphorane ligands“
		An Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award for outstanding poster presentation went to Shuto Mochizuki, in the group of Takashi Uemura at Kyoto University, for his poster entitled “Fabrication of ultrathin polymer films using metal-organic frameworks with 2-D nanospace“
		The Dalton Transactions award for outstanding poster presentation goes to Shuji Akinaga, in the group of Makoto Fujita at The University of Toyko, for his poster entitled “Inner-functionalization of crystalline meso-porous peptide complexes“
		The CrystEngComm award for outstanding poster presentation goes to Masashi Fujimura, in the group of Ryotaro Matsuda, for his poster entitled “溶存酸素吸着を実現する光応答性ナノポーラス金属錯体の設計“

The winners were given an RSC heat-sensitive mug as seen in the photo above of Yoshiyuke Takemoto – who we hope doesn’t drink coffee while using that solvent drying system!

The RSC offers its hearty congratulations to all the winners!

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Top 10 Reviewers for Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

23 Sep 2016

In celebration of Peer Review Week, with the theme of Recognition for Review – we would like to highlight the top 10 reviewers for Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2016, as selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal.

Name	Institution
Dr Michael Nippe	Texas A&M University
Dr Yang Xu	Ilmenau University of Technology
Dr Jianping Huang	Stony Brook University
Professor Ming-Liang Tong	Sun Yat-Sen University
Dr Junfeng Xie	University of Science and Technology of China
Dr Jie Zeng	University of Science and Technology of China
Dr Teppei Yamada	Kyushu University
Dr Yosuke Goto	University of Tokyo
Dr Min Zhou	Ilmenau University of Technology
Dr Zachary Tonzetich	University of Texas at San Antonio

We would like to say a massive thank you to these reviewers as well as the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers board and all of the materials chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

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Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers’ First Impact Factor 4.532

27 Jun 2016

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to announce its first Impact Factor as 4.532*!

We also received a ranking of 6 out of 46 inorganic chemistry journals.

As a collaborative journal led by the Chinese chemistry community, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is committed to report the very best research from China, Asia and rest of the world to an international audience. This impressive Impact Factor 4.532 demonstrates that the journal has attracted and published outstanding research, and has a large, community-spanning international readership.

“Many thanks for authors and readers! It seems that frontiers of inorganic chemistry attracted more attention of chemists in short time; we do wish publish more interdisciplinary cutting-edge research between inorganic chemistry and related subjects, and make much more significant impact on inorganic chemistry and beyond.” said Professor Song Gao, Editor-in-Chief of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.

The editorial office is also grateful to our distinguished international editorial and advisory board members for ensuring the high quality of the journal. Most important of all, are our reviewers, authors and those who have cited their work, and to them we extend our particular thanks!

We look forward to welcoming the next challenges and greater achievements in the future!

*Data based on 2015 Journal Citation Reports^®(Thomson Reuters, 2016).

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Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists

21 Jan 2016

Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists 2016 is to be held on 16 to 18 March, 2016 in Blankenberge, Belgium. The conference is organised by the youth division of the Royal Flemish Chemical Society (Jong-KVCV). This is the thirteenth edition and gives young attendees the opportunity to present early results of their research.

Topics are organised in six parallel sessions, focussing on the typical research domains in chemistry.

Analytical and Environmental Chemistry
Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Inorganic Chemistry
Macromolecular Chemistry
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Plenary keynote lectures by world-renowned scientists are scheduled. Nobel Prize laureate Prof. dr Sir Harold Kroto will highlight recent advances in the field that led to his Nobel Prize in 1996. In parallel, four seminars focussing on soft skills will prepare the participants on life after graduation.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers and Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers are pleased to sponsor this conference and award 3 poster prizes for the sessions of Inorganic Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic and Medicinal Chemistry.

More information about this exciting conference, please visit their WEBSITE!

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Welcome to Issue 11 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2015

03 Nov 2015

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The cover story, A family of fourteen soluble stable macrocyclic [Ni^II₃Ln^III] heterometallic 3d–4f complexes is contributed by Sally Brooker and her co-authors.

The inside cover this month features an article on A theoretical prediction on CN₆O: structure, stability and performance by Tao Yu and Bo Wu.

Following review article is also included in the current issue:

Crystal facet tailoring arts in perovskite oxides

Keke Huang, Long Yuan and Shouhua Feng

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 965-981

DOI: 10.1039/C5QI00168D

Publish with Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, benefit from rapid publication, free journal cover and free access to 2014 & 2015 content!

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Call for papers: Sino-European Collaborative Research

03 Nov 2015

To celebrate the international collaboration between China and Europe on advancing chemical sciences, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is delighted to announce a themed collection for Sino-European international collaborators.

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Sino-European Collaborative Research

Submission Deadline: 30^th May 2016

Guest Editor: Dr. Rong CHEN (Department of Chemical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China)

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This collection aims to highlight the recent important work developed under mutual cooperation between the Chinese and European chemical communities, reflecting the active interaction among those international collaborators in modern inorganic chemistry research.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is very pleased to invite Dr. Rong Chen from Department of Chemical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China to guest edit this themed collection. Both research and review articles are welcome. If you are interested in contributing to the themed collection, please be aware the following instructions that apply to this issue:

Each manuscript should at least include one Chinese research institute and one European institution in affiliation information.
Invited authors should ideally submit a brief description of the international collaborative researching project or of the cooperation history between Chinese and European laboratories.

Any questions, please contact the editorial office: InorgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org.

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Welcome to Issue 10 of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2015

15 Oct 2015

11 articles are published in the latest issue of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, including 5 contributions to the themed collection of Molecular Magnetism and 1 paper by Xun Wang et al. from the 2015 Emerging Investigators collection.

Rest of the issue consists of studies on