Dalton Transactions highlights from 2024

Happy New Year from the Dalton Transactions Editorial Office!

In 2024, Dalton Transactions published 48 issues with over 1700 articles, including over 100 Frontier and Perspectives review articles, from 68 countries. With our articles receiving a total of over 2.4 million downloads within 90 days of being published, you can be confident that your article has excellent visibility.

We are delighted to also share with you some highlights from Dalton Transactions in 2024, including our Outstanding Paper Award winners, themed collections, and our most popular articles from the year.

2024 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award Winners

The Outstanding Paper Award is an award aimed at recognising the great work published in Dalton Transactions from the previous year. This year’s winners were Kay Severin, Ru-Jin Li, Jean de Montmollin , Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani and Rosario Scopelliti for their paper:

Construction of Pd-based coordination cages with three geometrically distinct ligands

Ru-Jin Li, Jean de Montmollin , Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, Rosario Scopelliti and Kay Severin*

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 6451-6456

In this outstanding article, the authors combined three different dipyridyl ligands with [Pd(CH3CN)4](BF4)2 to give mixtures of homo- and hetero-leptic coordination cages. They found that the structural flexibility of ligands with alkynyl spacers were important for the formation of the heteroleptic complexes.

Themed Collections

Explore the themed collections we have launched in 2024.

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Spotlight Collection: Bioinorganic Chemistry

This joint themed collection with Chemical Science highlights the recent developments in the general area of bioinorganic chemistry.

Guest Editors: Mi Hee Lim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Serena DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and Abhishek Dey , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

New Talent: Americas, 2024

Includes recent research and reviews by early career researchers in the Americas region, highlighting the achievements of emerging scientists in the field of inorganic chemistry.

Guest Editors: Tim Storr , Simon Fraser University, Ellen Matson , Rochester University, and Ilich Ibarra, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

This themed collection is a joint collection with Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) and brings together work on quantum bioinorganic chemistry.

Guest Editors: Marcel Swart, Prof² √🤒 , University of Girona, Adam Kubas , Polish Academy of Sciences, and Ragnar Bjornsson , University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS

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Nitrogen Ligands

This themed collection highlights the role of nitrogen ligands in a wide diversity of areas across chemistry.

Guest Editors: Gabriel Canard, Aix-Marseille University, and Olivier Siri, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS

Main Group Element Compounds in Materials and Catalysis

This themed collection, highlighting recent developments in main-group element compounds used in materials and catalysis, is dedicated to our Associate Editor Vadapalli Chandrasekhar on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Guest Editors: Eric Rivard, University of Alberta, Nagendran Selvarajan , Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and Murugavel Ramaswamy , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Themed Collections still open for submissions:

Spotlight Collection: Mixed-Anion Compounds

Submission deadline: 13th May 2025

Guest Editors: Maarit Karppinen , Aalto University, Simon Clarke , University of Oxford, and Teruki Motohashi, Kanagawa University

If you would like to contribute to the above collection, please email dalton-rsc@rsc.org.

Most popular articles from 2024

We are pleased to share a selection of our most popular articles from 2024 – all free to access until July 2025.

Recent advances in lanthanide-based POMs for photoluminescent applications

Kangting Zheng and Pengtao Ma*

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 3949-3958

A sol–gel derived LaCoO3 perovskite as an electrocatalyst for Al–air batteries

Suruthi Vasudevan , SWATHI THARANI DHARMALINGAM , Manickam Minakshi and Sivasubramanian R *

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 3713-3721

Dendrimer-assisted defect and morphology regulation for improving optical, hyperthermia, and microwave-absorbing features

somayeh sheykhmoradi , Arezoo Ghaffari, Ali Mirkhan, Ji Guangbin , Shujuan Tan and Reza Peymanfar*

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 4222-4236

f-Block hydride complexes – synthesis, structure and reactivity (Open Access)

Richard Drummond Turnbull and Dr Nicola Bell *

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 12814-12836

Synthesis and reactivity of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) gold-fluoroalkoxide complexes (Open Access)

Pierre ARNAUT , Nestor Bracho Pozsoni , Fady Nahra , Nikolaos Tzouras * and Steven P. Nolan*

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 11952-11958

You can now choose transparent peer review in Dalton Transactions

This year we launched transparent peer review on our platform as an option for authors publishing with us.   

Transparent peer review aims to cultivate a more open, robust and accessible research environment. If an author has chosen this option, the anonymous peer reviewers’ reports, authors’ responses and editor’s decision letters are published alongside the accepted article. Watch our video to find out more.  

We would like to thank you for your continued support of Dalton Transactions and wish you all the best for 2025.