Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paula Diaconescu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) has joined Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers as Associate Editor handling the peer-review of submissions to the journal.

Biography

Paula Diaconescu joined the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department of University of California, Los Angeles, in 2005, after spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD degree under the supervision of Professor Christopher Cummins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on arene-bridged complexes of uranium. Her earlier education was completed in Romania, where she obtained her BS from the University of Bucharest and worked on coordination complexes of transition metals and lanthanides at the University Politehnica of Bucharest. Besides awards received from UCLA, she received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2009), a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).

ORCID: 0000-0003-2732-4155

Research Highlights

The Diaconescu research group is interested in various aspects of metal-ligand cooperation as stem from using ferrocene-based supporting ligands with applications ranging from small molecule activation to the formation of biodegradable polymers. Specific focuses of the group are redox switchable catalysis and biodegradable polymer synthesis.

Check some of her publications at Royal Society of Chemistry:

Zirconium complexes supported by a ferrocene-based ligand as redox switches for hydroamination reactions
Yi Shen, Scott M. Shepard, Christopher J. Reed and Paula L. Diaconescu
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 5587-5590

Preparation of multiblock copolymers via step-wise addition of L-lactide and trimethylene carbonate
Mark Abubekerov, Junnian Wei, Kevin R. Swartz, Zhixin Xie, Qibing Pei and Paula L. Diaconescu
Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 2168-2178

Investigation of redox switchable titanium and zirconium catalysts for the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters and epoxides
Miranda Y. Lowe, Sisheng Shu, Stephanie M. Quan and Paula L. Diaconescu
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017,4, 1798-1805

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Water-soluble Re₆-clusters with aromatic phosphine ligands – from synthesis to potential biomedical applications  is contributed by Michael A. Shestopalov et al.

The inside cover features a story on Borax promotes the facile formation of hollow structure in Cu single crystalline nanoparticles for multifunctional electrocatalysis by Baorui Jia, Yongzhi Zhao, Zili Zhang, Luan Liu, Mingli Qin, Haoyang Wu, Ye Liu, Xuanhui Qu and Genggeng Qi.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Prof Dr Xian-He Bu, Nankai University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-7974
Dr Rui Cao, Shaanxi Normal University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1821-9583
Dr Kang Min Ok, Sogang University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7195-9089
Dr Shengjie Peng, National University of Singapore, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6565-836X
Dr Jinkui Tang, Chang Chun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8600-7718
Dr, Pinxian Xi, Lanzhou University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-5622
Professor Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-1541
Professor Qichun Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1854-8659
Prof Dr Chunyi Zhi, City University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6766-5953
Dr Xiaoxin Zou, Jilin University, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-9274

We would also like to thank the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers board and the inorganic chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us (InorgChemFrontiersED@rsc.org) with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Scalable synthesis of one-dimensional Na₂Li₂Ti₆O₁₄ nanofibers as ultrahigh rate capability anodes for lithium-ion batteries is contributed by Chao Wang, Xing Xin, Miao Shu, Shuiping Huang, Yang Zhang and Xing Li.

The latest InorgChemFront issue is published online.

The front cover story, Fabrication of a 1D Mn₃O₄ nano-rod electrode for aqueous asymmetric supercapacitors and capacitive deionization is contributed by Hao Zhang, Dun Liu, Yuquan Wei, Aiyang Li, Bo Liu, Ying Yuan, Haichuan Zhang, Guanghe Li and Fang Zhang.

The inside cover features a story on A robust CdS/In₂O₃ hierarchical heterostructure derived from a metal–organic framework for efficient visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen productio  by Jia-Tong Ren, Kun Yuan, Ke Wu, Liang Zhou and Ya-Wen Zhang.

Following review article is included in current issue:

Recent progress in ligand-centered homogeneous electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
Geng-Geng Luo, Hai-Lin Zhang, Yun-Wen Tao, Qiao-Yu Wu, Dan Tian and Qichun Zhang
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 343-354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8QI01220B