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Canadian Society for Chemistry award for Dalton Transactions Chair
24 November 2008
RSC Publishing congratulates Professor Chris Orvig on his recent Canadian Society for Chemistry award
Journal award for leading inorganic chemist
24 November 2008
Professor Dan Mindiola receives the 2008 Dalton Transactions US Lectureship.
Nickel metalloporphyrins and the role of serendipity
12 November 2008
In his Dalton Transactions Perspective, Henry Callot discusses nickel metalloporphyrins
Supramolecular assemblies do the twist
12 November 2008
Tomoyuki Akutagawa and Takayoshi Nakamura discuss how artificial rotators can be made using a supramolecular approach
Unconventional MOFs
05 November 2008
Abraham Clearfield reviews porous cross-linked metal phosphonates
Jellium theory predicts naked cluster geometries
05 November 2008
Bruce King discusses the Jellium model for cluster bonding
Your RSC subscriptions and free content
16 October 2008
Find out what you can access, and where to find free content
Environmentally friendly explosives
09 October 2008
Scientists in Germany have made lead-free detonators for reducing the environmental impact of military explosives.
Metal and mixed-metal coordination polymers synthesised with pyrazine-2-carboxylate
30 October 2008
Hans-Conrad zur Loye and Joseph Ellsworth summarise the diversity in pyrazine-2-carboxylate coordination polymers.
Scorpionates to Janus-heads: multidentate ligands
30 October 2008
Frank Breher and colleagues discuss the area of multidentate ligands, ranging from scorpionates to Janus-head types.
Luminescent bioprobes
22 October 2008
Chun-Hua Yan sheds light on luminescent rare earth nanomaterials as potential bioprobes
Not just Wittig reagents - Ylides as ligands
22 October 2008
Esteban Urriolabeitia explores the behaviour of ylides as ligands towards transition metals
Making gold active
15 October 2008
In his Dalton Transactions Perspective, Graham Hutchings looks at how gold is more reactive than we once thought
Dalton Transactions highlights nanomaterials for energy solutions
15 October 2008
Dalton Transactions' latest theme issue, showcases recent developments in nanomaterials as solutions to the world's energy challenges
Diol-type ligands in single-molecule magnets
15 October 2008
Anastasios Tasiopoulos and Spyros Perlepes review the use of diol-type ligands in the chemistry of single-molecule magnets and high-spin molecules.
Control of crystal shapes via electrodeposition
08 October 2008
Kyoung-Shin Choi reviews recent strategies to control the crystal shapes of inorganic materials via electrodeposition.
Inorganic nanomaterials for batteries
08 October 2008
Stanley Whittingham looks at the opportunities for nanoscale inorganic materials for elements of electrochemical cells.
Nanotubes from biomass: Hydrothermal Carbonization
08 October 2008
Shu-Hong Yu and colleagues discuss recent advances in the synthesis of functional carbon materials from biomass using hydrothermal carbonization.
Intermediates in carbon-heteroatom bond formation
01 October 2008
In his Dalton Transactions Perspective, David Glueck discusses different intemediates in carbon-heteroatom bond formation
From NO to superoxide and peroxides: transition metal activation of small molecules
01 October 2008
Rudi van Eldik and Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic discuss the metal-assisted activation of small, biologically important molecules
Register now for ISM 2009!
29 September 2008
Registration is now open for the upcoming International Symposium on Metallomics 2009 to be held in Cincinnati, USA in June next year.
Boron-rich hydrogen storage materials reviewed
25 September 2008
Ping Wang looks at different hydrogen storage materials
Designing MOFs
24 September 2008
Richard Robson discusses Metal Organic Frameworks and their history from a personal point of view.
Toughening up thin films
18 September 2008
New thin film precursors could lead to faster and smaller electronic devices
Nitrogen NMR probes biological systems
11 September 2008
Yoshiyuki Tanaka discusses the role of Nitrogen NMR in investigating the structure of RNA and DNA based molecules
Metal-containing rotaxanes
02 September 2008
In their Dalton Transactions Perspective, Kohtaro Osakada and colleagues discuss recent developments in rotaxanes with metal-containing axles.
Dalton Discussion 11: The renaissance of main group chemistry
14 August 2008
Read the papers from the latest Dalton Discussion meeting here!
Getting to grips with complex chirality
14 August 2008
A proposal for defining the chirality of octahedral complexes with chelate ligands has been put forward
Dye happy: Hydrogenated tetraazaporphyrins
27 August 2008
In their Dalton Perspective, Takamitsu Fukuda and Nagao Kobayashi discuss the synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of hydrogenated tetraazaporphryins
Catalyst activation of late transition metals
20 August 2008
Bernhard Rieger reviews the activation of late transition metal polymerisation catalysts
Energy from model enzymes
12 August 2008
Mimicking enzymes with inorganic complexes could offer a new route to catalysing hydrogen fuel cells, claim Japanese scientists.
Cleaning up the chlorine
06 August 2008
In his Dalton Transactions Perspective, Kristopher McNeill shows the promise of cobalamin to remove chlorine pollutants
Exploring recent advances in the chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes of rhodium
30 July 2008
Cathleen Crudden and Jeremy Praetorius discuss the preparation, stability and applications of NHC complexes of rhodium.
Bio-based building blocks
30 July 2008
Jason Lynam explores the different ways in which metals can be tethered to nucleobases.
Trinuclear copper provides the base for oxygen reduction
24 July 2008
Ed Solomon uncovers the secrets of multicopper oxidases
Charged ligands to study catalysis
24 July 2008
Scott McIndoe and Danielle Chisholm reveal how charged ligands can be used for catalysis immobilisation and analysis
Advances in the characterisation of paramagnetic metalloproteins
16 July 2008
Ivano Bertini and colleagues discuss some novel tools in paramagnetic NMR for the characterisation of protein structure and dynamics.
Nanographene host-guest materials
16 July 2008
Toshiaki Enoki shows how nanographene can introduce unique properties to guest molecules
Uncovering the biological secrets of NO
09 July 2008
Jose Olabe reveals the role of NO in living systems
2008 Dalton Transactions European Lectureship Announced
03 July 2008
Kay Severin from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, scoops prestigious award to recognise emerging European inorganic chemists.
Polycarbon Molecular Wires
03 July 2008
Munetaka Akita and Takashi Koike discuss how carbon cluster chemistry has been extended to the promising study of molecular wires and switches.
From molecules to materials: Dalton Transactions looks at main group chemistry
26 June 2008
Simon Aldridge is guest editor of Dalton Transactions theme issue 'Main group chemistry: from molecules to materials'
Encapsulated hydrides
26 June 2008
Andrew Wheatley describes progress in encapsulating hydrides in lithium clusters
Highest Ever Impact Factor for Dalton Transactions
18 June 2008
Dalton Transactions sees the biggest increase in impact factor, and maintains pole position in immediacy index
Changing the colour of inorganic materials
17 June 2008
Shoko Kume and Hiroshi Nishihara review photochromic transition metal complexes
Double the metal
17 June 2008
An unusual dimagnesium-carbene complex could make a useful new catalyst, claim UK chemists
New journal news!
18 November 2008
Announcing two new journals for 2009, and the first online articles for Energy & Environmental Science
Metalloprotein sensors revealed
11 June 2008
In his Dalton Transactions Perspective, Shigetoshi Aono explores metalloproteins as sensors.
Gadolinium Contrast Agents
04 June 2008
In their Dalton Transactions Perspective, Ivan Lukes and colleagues discuss MRI contrast agents based on gadolinium(III) complexes.
The Power of QM/MM Methods for the Study of Inorganic Systems
21 May 2008
In their Dalton Transactions Perspective, Carles Bo and Feliu Maseras discuss the current status of QM/MM methods in inorganic chemistry
Putting organometallic vacant sites to use
15 May 2008
Andrew Weller gives his Dalton Transactions European Lecture in York
Livening up lactates
14 May 2008
Thai scientists have devised a faster, environmentally-friendly route to alkyl lactates
Ligand Design for Metallosupramolecular Magnetic Materials
15 May 2008
Miguel Julve and colleagues discuss the 'complex-as-ligand' approach to rational design of metallosupramolecular assemblies
Ionic liquids electrolytes for harnessing solar energy
07 May 2008
Mikhail Gorlov and Lars Kloo review the first generation of ionic liquids as electrolytes for dye-sensitised solar cells
Bowled over by subporphyrins
30 April 2008
In their Dalton Transactions Perspective, Yasuhide Inokuma and Atsuhiro Osuka discuss their recent progress in the new area of subporphyrin chemistry
Nanoparticles relieve the pressure
24 April 2008
Young Keun Chung and Ji Hoon Park show how catalytic nanoparticles can greatly modify conditions for important organic reactions
Supporting molybdenum catalysts
16 April 2008
Kavita Jain and Fritz Kühn look at immobilized molybdenum oxo and carbonyl complexes, important catalysts for epoxidation
Collection of articles dedicated to Professor Ken Wade, F.R.S. in celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday
03 April 2008
Read the articles published to celebrate Professor Ken Wade's 75th birthday
The rise of phosphorus carbenes
01 April 2008
In this Dalton Transactions Perspective, Pascal Le Floch presents recent research devoted to the study of carbene complexes with two phosphorus groups on the carbon atom
Beautiful new single molecule magnets
26 March 2008
In their Dalton Transactions Perspective, Costas Milios, Stergios Piligkos and Euan Brechin discuss targeted structural distortion using oxime-based single molecule magnets
High impact safety measures
25 March 2008
Chemists in France have synthesised new compounds from old, for an alternative for air bag inflation.
Making molecular squares
18 March 2008
Louise Dawe, Tareque Abedin and Laurence Thompson discuss their contributions to the area of square grid synthesis using hydrazone based ligands.
Bottom-up Building Blocks: Metallodendrimers
11 March 2008
Bart Ravoo highlights the potential of metallodendrimers for nanofabrication and possible applications of the resulting devices, such as nanocatalysts and solar cells.
From oxidation to reduction
10 March 2008
Researchers in Portugal have developed high-valent metal oxides for hydrogenating alkynes and sulfoxides, using inexpensive hydrogen
Achieving the impossible
05 March 2008
Takahiro Sasamori and Norihiro Tokitoh outline their success in making "impossible" compounds containing multiple bonds between heavier Group 15 elements.
Preventing Alzheimer's
27 February 2008
Arvi Rauk discusses the identity of the cause of this neurodegenetive disease
The future of metal fluorides?
18 February 2008
Stephan Rudiger and Erhard Kemnitz discuss the recently developed fluorolytic sol-gel route to metal fluorides and new applications stemming from this method.
First Class Delivery
05 February 2008
Michael Sailor and co-workers use microporous silica particles as delivery systems
Forgotten Carbenes?
01 February 2008
Helgard Raubenheimer and Stephanie Cronje examine the forgotten six-membered carbene family
The promise of polyhedral boron hydrides
24 January 2008
Andrey Semioshkin describes new routes to cyclic oxonium derivatives
Pd-catalysed alkoxycarbonylation
11 January 2008
Carmen Claver outlines the latest advances in the development of palladium catalysts for alkoxycarbonylation.
Holding on to heavy metals
08 January 2008
Structurally simple ligands that selectively bind to mercuric chloride could help remove this toxic salt from the environment, say scientists from India
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