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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · Sep 8

Our latest themed collection on Inorganic Nanomaterials is now open to submissions🚨

The deadline to submit is 19 January 2026⏰

Find out more about the collection and how to submit, here:
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#OpenCall #chemsky 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 3h

To mark the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we've launched a #MOFs collection, showcasing research by Laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi & Richard Robson and their colleagues, spanning 3 decades of MOFs research from synthesis to application👀

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#chemsky 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 20h

Be sure to read recent work by Sanjib K. Patra and colleagues discussing the development of a low molecular weight gelator based on oligo(ethylene glycol) bridged bis-terpyridyl to access metallogels, as seen on this week's back cover💡

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📍IIT Kharagpur 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 1d

This week's inside front cover features work by Mahesh Sundararajan & co exploring structural features and redox behaviour of synthetic models of serum transferrin by combining electronic structure calculations and multi-scale modelling, read here⬇️

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📍BARC and HBNI 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 1d

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆

Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... 🧪

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 2d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 2d

Our front cover is work by Nazli Farajzadeh Öztürk, Zehra Altuntaş Bayır, Makbule Burkut Koçak & co on biological activities of metallic nanostructures functionalised with hexadeca-substituted metal phthalocyanines, take a look👇

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📍Acıbadem Üniversitesi and ITU 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 3d

Issue 39 is now online! Read it here👇

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 4d

🔓Take a look at #OpenAccess work by Jongseo Kim and Seong Huh which investigated the photoluminescence and photoredox catalytic properties of the three cationic Ru(II) polypyridine complexes encapsulated in an InTATB MOF⬇️

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📍Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 🧪

Photoluminescence and photoredox catalytic properties of cationic Ru(II) polypyridine complexes encapsulated within an InTATB metal–organic framework

The nanoscale environment within the void spaces of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can significantly influence the photoredox catalytic activity of encapsulated visible-light photoredox catalysts…

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 7d

🔓Don't miss #OpenAccess work by @wesleybrowne.bsky.social, @marcelswart.bsky.social & co on heterolytic O–O bond cleavage in a non-haem phenolato-Fe(III)–OOH complex to yield a formal Fe(v)=O intermediate, explore more here👇

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📍 @rug.nl and @univgirona.bsky.social 🧪

Ligand driven heterolytic O–O bond cleavage in a non-haem phenolato-Fe(III)–OOH complex to yield a formal Fe(V)O intermediate

Fe(v) [[double bond, length as m-dash]] O species can be generated by the heterolytic cleavage of the O–O bond of corresponding Fe(iii)–OOH species. In haem complexes the redox non-innocence of the…

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 7d

Our latest HOT articles are out now🔥

This collection represents the top 10% of research published in our journal each quarter. Congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured in this collection👏

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 7d

🎉Dalton Transactions' latest Tutorial Review is now online!

Check out the Tutorial Review by Ricardo A. Peralta, Diego Solis-Ibarra, Ilich A. Ibarra & co on fluorescence spectroscopy for detection and sensing of SO2 and H2S using porous materials👀

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#chemsky 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 8d

Be sure to read this Frontier article by Shumin Sun, Peiyuan Wang & co the recent advances of Prussian blue analogues as promising cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries👏

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📍Zhengzhou University of Light Industry🧪

Prussian blue analogues for high-performance sodium ion battery cathodes: recent advances and challenges

Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) have gained considerable attention as promising cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) due to their three-dimensional open framework structure,…

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 8d

🔓Take a look at this #OpenAccess Perspective article by Rajesh Deka, @orthaberlab.bsky.social & co discussing the use of heavier group 15 elements in molecular switch development⬇️

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📍Uppsala University 🧪

Heavier group 15 elements: a new frontier in molecular switch development

Molecular switches—compounds capable of reversibly interconverting between distinct states in response to external stimuli—are foundational to the design of dynamic functional materials. Classical…

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 9d

This week's inside front cover features work by Raju Laishram and colleagues on circularly polarized luminescence-active lanthanide gels with high dissymmetry factor and quantum yield, find out more💡

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📍Manipur University 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 9d

On the front cover is the latest work by Elwira Bisz, Michal Szostak & co reporting a new class of IPaul-based ligands bearing benzoxazole and benzothiazole donor wingtips, read it here👀

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📍Uniwersytet Opolski, Rutgers University 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 10d

Issue 38 is out now! Read it here👀

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 14d

🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess Tutorial Review by Ricardo A. Peralta, Diego Solis-Ibarra, Ilich A. Ibarra & co where they discuss fluorescence spectroscopy for the detection and sensing of SO2 and H2S using MOFs and other emerging porous materials⬇️

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📍UNAM, Mexico

Fluorescence spectroscopy: detection and sensing of SO2 and H2S using MOFs and other emerging porous materials

In this tutorial review we introduce the basic concepts on fluorescence spectroscopy as an analytical technique to detect and sense sulphur dioxide (SO2) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S), specifically, by…

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 14d

Be sure to read this Perspective article by Priyankar Paira & co which discusses the advances and impact of nanomaterials on the delivery of metallic anticancer drugs across various cancers, as seen on our outside back cover👇

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📍VIT Vellore and Alipurduar University 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 15d

Check out work by Sumanta Kumar Padhi and colleagues which explores electrochemical water oxidation using single-site Cu(ii) molecular complexes, featured on our inside back cover👏

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📍Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 16d

🔓This week's inside front cover: #OpenAccess work by Joydeb Goura, Björn Schwarz, Saurabh Kumar Singh & co studying the magnetic and luminescence of tetranuclear homometallic O-capped lanthanide complexes, take a look👀

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📍Jadavpur University, @kit.edu and IIT Hyderabad 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 16d

🔓On the front cover is #OpenAccess work by Manabu Hagiwara & co on improving the dielectric temperature stability of Bi2SiO5-based ceramics through the spontaneous formation of paraelectric–ferroelectric nanocomposite structures, read it here⬇️

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📍Keio University 🧪

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 17d

Issue 37 is out now! Read it here👇

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 22d

This week's back cover features work by Hui Li & co investigating the characterisation of Schiff base ligands derived from l-phenylalanine and their corresponding Cu(II) complexes focusing on nonlinear optical properties, read it here⬇️

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📍Beijing Institute of Technology

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 23d

🔓On the front cover is #OpenAccess work by Efrain E. Rodriguez & co where they synthesised LuMnGaO4 and performed structural analysis focusing on its reversible oxygen uptake and oxidation-driven colour change, take a look👀

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📍 @univofmaryland.bsky.social 🧪

Dalton Transactions outside front cover for vol 54, issue 36.

Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 23d

Issue 36 is out now! Access it here👇

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