Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

This July the 68th conference of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) was held at Sendai International Centre, co-organised by The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). The event was a huge success, featuring over 200 talks in both English and Japanese spread over six sessions as well as almost 300 posters.

RSC’s Editorial Development Manager for Japan, Hiromitsu Urakami and  Dalton Transactions‘ Deputy Editor, Mike Andrews, were on-hand to award RSC poster prizes for the best student poster presentations.

	The Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers award went to Aoyama Tomokazu of Tokyo Metropolitan University for his poster: 水素生成を目指した新規水溶性超分子システムの調製と触媒機能 (Preparation and catalytic activity of a novel water-soluble supramolecular system aimed at hydrogen production) Aoyama Tomokazu (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (centre) and Hiro Urakami (left)
	The CrystEngComm award went to Tomohiro Fujimoto of Osaka University, for his poster: オスミウム錯体を触媒とするアルケンの1,2-アミノアルコール化反応における反応活性種の同定と反応性 (Identification and Reactivity of Active Species in the 1,2-Aminohydroxylation of Alkenes Catalyzed by an Osmium Complex) Tomohiro Fujimoto (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (left)
	The Dalton Transactions award went to Yuta Ohtsubo of Kyushu University, for his poster: 多孔性金属錯体を利用した水素分子の核スピン変換の促進 (Promotion of nuclear spin conversion of molecular hydrogen using a porous metal complex) Yuto Ohtsubo (right) receiving his award from Mike Andrews (centre) and Hiro Urakami (left)

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers also awarded the best student oral presentation to Yuta Miyazaki of Osaka University, for his topic: Construction and Evaluation of a Protein-based Functional Model of Methane-producing Enzyme Yuta Miyazaki is showing his certificate and a colour changing RSC mug

The winners were given a journal certificate and a colour changing RSC mug! Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winer and oral presentation prize winner were given 0ne year free subscription of Inorganic Chemstry Frontiers as well.

The RSC offers its hearty congratulations to all the winners!

The 6^th EuCheMS conference on Nitrogen Ligands was successfully held at on 13-17^th, Beaune, France

This conference attracted scientists with an interest in the field of metal-nitrogen ligand chemistry from Europe and abroad. Scope of the 2015 meeting has been broadened by including recent advances from the fields of coordination chemistry, metal-organic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and materials & catalysis.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers was delighted to sponsor two poster prizes and we would like to join in congratulating the winners.

The winners all received a certificate and a Royal Society of Chemistry book voucher as rewards.

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers is proud to sponsor the 17^th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC17) together with Dalton Transactions, Chemical Science and Metallomics.

ICBIC17 is to be held from 20^th to 24^th July in Beijing China. Conference this year is hosted by the Chinese Chemical Society together with National Natural Science Foundation of China and is organized by Beihang University. Under the subject of “Biological Inorganic Chemistry: Interdiscipline and Cooperation”, this conference will cover newly attained research achievements in the realm for the past few years.

Professor Yi Lu, the Editorial Board member of ICF, Professor Christopher Chang and Professor Chi-Ming Che who both serve in the ICF Advisory Board, will give keynote lectures at the conference.

In addition, Dr. Wenjun Liu, Deputy Editor of the journal, will be also attending this conference and she hopes to meet many ICF authors and readers there. Please do let her know if you will be there.

More information about the ICBIC17, please visit http://icbic17.org/index.asp.

We look forward to meeting you in Beijing!

ICF warmly congratulates the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Award winners,

• Professor Shou-Hua Feng (Jilin University, China) and Professor Pei-Dong Yang (UC Berkeley, US), winners of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Award for Distinguished Scientist;
• Professor Yi Cui (Stanford University, US) and Professor Zhi-Yong Tang (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), winners of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Award for Outstanding Young Scientist;

These awards, co-sponsored by Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were announced at the International Symposium of Energy Conversion and Storage on 31^st May in Beijing, China. The distinction is proudly owned by the preeminent scientists in recognition of their significant contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry.

Award winners and RSC staffs (From left to right: Wenjun Liu, Zhiyong Tang, Yi Cui, Peidong Yang, Shouhua Feng and Sarah Thomas)

The 10^th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC-10) was successfully held in Xiamen University on 19-20 December 2014. This conference was joined together with the 13^th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC-13), providing an invaluable platform for Chinese chemists to exchange their scientific finding, cultivate mutual understandings, and foster possible collaborations.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers was delighted to sponsor the poster prize at ISCIC-10 and we would like to join in congratulating the winner as follow:

‘Controllable Metallophilicity-Driven Aggregation of a Phosphorescent Gold(I)-Silver(I) Cluster’

Wen-Xiu Ni (Shantou Universit)

‘The Effects of Surface Ligands and Counter Cations on the Stability of Anionic Thiolated M₁₂Ag₃₂ (M=Au,Ag) Cluster’

Hua-Yan Yang (Xiamen Universit)

‘Preparation of Metal-organic Frameworks Films with Sensing Properties’

Wei-Jin Li (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matte)

‘High Efficient Alkane Oxidation Catalyzed by [Mn^V(N)(CN)₄]^2-. Evidence for [Mn^VII(N)(O)(CN)₄]^2- as Active Intermediate’

Li Ma (City University of Hong Kon)

‘A Convenient Way to Synthesize the O-carborane Functionalized Cyclometalated Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes for Intracellular Hypoxia Imaging’

Xiang Li (Nanjing Universit)

Winners for both ISCIC-10 and ISCOC-13, judges, scientific committee and RSC staff

Each winner received a certificate and a copy of book from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s popular science collection.

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

The 6^th Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment (CASE) network meeting was held at Xiamen University from 7-9^th November 2014 and hosted by Yun-Bao Jiang (Dean of the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University). http://case2014.wordpress.com/

The Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment (CASE) network was founded by Tony James, Steven Bull and John Fossey at the University of Bath in 2008. These annual research meetings have been held in Bath (UK, 2008) ECUST (Shanghai, 2009), the University of Birmingham (UK, 2011), SIOC (Shanghai, 2012) and the University of Texas at Austin (USA, 2013).

The CASE symposia have proven to be hot beds for collaborative discussion with numerous papers and successful funding applications resulting from the interactions initiated through the networking opportunities provided by these meetings.

Three Poster Prizes of ¥500 and Certificate from Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers were awarded by Daping Zhang the Executive Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers.

RSC Poster Prize winners:

• Mr William Brittain (University of Birmingham)
• Dr. Shuo-Hui Cao (Xiamen University)
• Miss Yuan Yuan (Xiamen University)

*Picture (Left to Right) Daping Zhang the Executive Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Shuo-Hui Cao (Xiamen University), William Brittain (University of Birmingham), Yuan Yuan (Xiamen University), Yun-Bao Jiang (Dean of the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University)

The 7th CASE conference will be hosted in Dublin in 2015 by Thorri Gunnlaugsson and Donal O’Shea. While, the 8th CASE conference will return to its roots and University of Bath in 2016 as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations for the University of Bath. The 9^th conference will be hosted by Leyong Wang in 2017 at Nanjing University.

Invited Speakers at the conference in Xiamen:

• Robert Elmes (Maynooth Univeristy)
• Jian Zhou (East China Normal University)
• Leyong Wang (Nanjing University)
• Xiaojun Peng (Dalian University of Technology)
• Thorri Gunnlaugsson (Trinity College Dublin)
• Engin Akkaya (Bilkent University)
• Yitao Long (ECUST)
• Xuhong Qian (ECUST)
• John Fossey (university of Birmingham)
• Shoufa Han (Xiamen University)
• Chuanliu Wu (Xiamen University)
• Zhi Zhu (Xiamen University)
• Jian-Feng Li (Xiamen University)
• Simon Lewis (University of Bath)
• Steve Bull (University of Bath)
• Chris Frost (University of Bath)
• Tony James (University of Bath)
• Toby Jenkins (University of Bath)