Discover the Dalton Transactions themed collection on Main Group Element Compounds in Materials and Catalysis

We are delighted to announce our new themed collection on Main Group Element Compounds in Materials and Catalysis.

This collection focuses on highlights the recent advances in applying main group element compounds in materials and catalysis. The collection includes studies on small-molecule activation, low-valent main group chemistry, Lewis acidic compounds, single-molecule precursors for materials, showing promising applications across materials and catalysis. The collection is guest edited by Eric Rivard ( University of Alberta ), Murugavel Ramaswamy ( Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ) and Nagendran Selvarajan ( Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ).

The collection is dedicated to our Associate Editor, Chandrasekhar vadapalli , an expert in the field of main-group compounds, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Read on to discover some of the fantastic articles that make up this collection. Find the full collection here.

Editorial

Main group element compounds in materials and catalysis

Nagendran Selvarajan *, Murugavel Ramaswamy * and Eric Rivard*

Dalton Trans., 2025, Advance Article

Reviews

Amidinato silylene-based inorganic aromatic rings (Open Access)

Saroj Kumar Kushwaha, PhD and Herbert W. Roesky*

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 19058-19074

Lessons from recent theoretical treatments of Al–M bonds (M = Fe, Cu, Ag, Au) that capture CO2

Supundrika Subasinghe and Neal Mankad *

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 13709-13715

Articles

Amplifying Lewis acidity by oxidation: leveraging the redox-activity of bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-catecholato)silane (Open Access)

Thaddäus Thorwart, Manuel Schmitt and Lutz Greb *

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 65-69

Transforming delayed fluorescence into blue-shifted phosphorescence in aminoboranes via oxygen-to-sulfur substitution on the donor amine

Akkarakkaran Thayyil Muhammed Munthasir*, Satyam Jena and Pakkirisamy Thilagar*

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 4577-4588

Ferroelectricity and piezoelectric energy harvesting of an A3M2X9-type 0D bromobismuthate hybrid with a bulky organic quaternary amine

Namonarayan Meena , Dr. Supriya Sahoo , Nilotpal Deka, Vinayak B. Gadagin, Jan K. Zareba * and Boomi Shankar Ramamoorthy *

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 2985-2990

Tipping the balance between twist and chair ligand conformers in multinuclear ethylzinc cyclophosphazenates (Open Access)

Boomi Shankar Ramamoorthy , Philip I. Richards and Alexander Steiner *

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 2628-2633

Facile room-temperature synthesis of layered transition metal phosphonates via hitherto unknown alkali metal tert-butyl phosphonates

Anuj Kumar, Aheli Ghatak and Murugavel Ramaswamy *

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 14399-14410

We hope you enjoy reading this collection of articles, which we were delighted to put together to celebrate our Associate Editor Chandrasekhar vadapalli 65th birthday. Explore the full collection on our collection webpage.