🧩 New in @daltontrans.rsc.org! We report photochromic macrocyclic Y(III) and Dy(III) complexes that switch between merocyanine and spiropyran form. Structural and theoretical studies reveal how these complexes could lead to photoswitchable single-molecule magnets! 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5DT...

We are delighted to share our latest spotlight collection: Mixed-Anion Compounds👀 Guest Edited by Maarit Karppinen, Simon Clarke & Teruki Motohashi this collection highlights the recent advances in the area of mixed-anion compounds. Read the collection here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #Chemsky🧪

🔓Read recent #OpenAccess work by Hendrik G. Visser & co on synthesising dinuclear bis(diphenylphosphino)amine Au(I) complexes and the ligand and counter-ion effects on their photoluminescence, featured on this week's inside front cover⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍University of the Free State 🧪

🔓On the front cover is #OpenAccess work by Jonathan D. Burns & co investigating the conversion of alpha-zirconium phosphate to the alkali metal-phases and the subsequent ion exchange behaviour with La3+ and Cr3+, take a look👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍University of Alabama at Birmingham 🧪

Issue 44 is online! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

SC-SC reactivity to obtain a gold(I)-NH3 complex (and H/D exchange in crystallo with D2O) using our cavity-shaped phosphine is out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org! Great collaborative work with @wellerchemyork.bsky.social & @camposgroup.bsky.social. Special thanks to Chloe pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🔓The front cover of issue 43 is #OpenAccess work by Yasushi Sekine & co from Waseda University on porous silica materials derived from cage-siloxane for the stabilisation of dispersed Au(0) nanoparticles, take a look👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Read the full issue 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

🚨We are delighted to share our latest themed collection: MOFs in Asia Guest Edited by Hoi Ri Moon, Sarah S Park and Jihye Park, this collection showcases recent advances & innovative research in the field of MOFs across Asia. Read the full collection here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪

Our inside front cover features work by Saroj Samal & co exploring effects of variation of halide ions and hydrogen bonding interaction on structural distortion and photoluminescence of Bi-based 0D organic–inorganic metal halides, check it out👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍NIT Rourkela 🧪

On the front cover is work by H. V. Rasika Dias and colleagues where they explored the chemistry of trifluoromethylated pyridyl ligands with coinage metal ions, read more here ⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @utaresearch.bsky.social 🧪

Issue 42 is now online, read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

We are delighted to introduce our new Associate Editor, Dinorah Gambino from Universidad de la República, Uruguay📢 Please join us in welcoming her to our Editorial Board! Dinorah’s research focuses on bioinorganic chemistry - read our blog to find out more👇 blogs.rsc.org/dt/2025/10/2... #chemsky🧪

🔓Take a look at #OpenAccess work by Andreas-Neil Unterreiner & co investigating the dependence of excited-state dynamics of first excited singlet state of indocyanine green on both solvent environments and dye concentration, seen on this week's back cover💡 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @kit.edu 🧪

🔓#OpenAccess work by Rama Suntharalingam, @sandykilla.bsky.social & co is featured on our inside front cover! Read their work on targeting breast cancer stem cells with titanocene-based metallodrugs👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @uniofleicester.bsky.social 🧪 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social

On this week's front cover is a Perspective article by Shigehisa Akine focusing on the functionalisation and dynamic functional switching of low-spin d6 cobalt(III) complexes derived from various oligo(saloph) structures, read more here⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Kanazawa University 🧪

Issue 41 is online! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

New #ICMABResearch published in @daltontrans.rsc.org! 🧪 📌Gold bis(dithiolene) radical with fused pyrazine and dithiine rings on dithiolene ligand turns metallic under pressure icmab.es/gold-bis-dit... 📜Read the paper here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The first of my PhD work has been published in @daltontrans.rsc.org, work done in the Barnard group at @limsltu.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social on using boronic acids as receptors for sugars (i.e. glucose) while using iridium(III) as a signalling unit. #chemsky #organometallic

📢ICYMI: We've launched our "MOFs: Three Decades of Design and Discovery" themed collection to celebrate the work of 2025 Nobel Laureates, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, and their co-workers on #MOFs🏅 Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky #NobelPrize 🧪

🔓This week's back cover features #OpenAccess work by Marco Saccone, Massimo Cametti & co on how the packing and assembly of salophen–UO2 complexes was affected by the size of the ammonium cation used, take a look⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍University of Eastern Piedmont, Politecnico di Milano🧪

Our front cover is work by Brandon Quillian & co investigating reactivity of p-cymene RuI2 complexes to understand the behaviour of the Ru–I bond in the synthesis of Ru(II) complexes with bidentate N-donor ligands, read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Georgia Southern University 🧪

Issue 40 is now online, take a look👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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👀 Read now 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪

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💡 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍IIT Kharagpur 🧪

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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍BARC and HBNI 🧪

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/... 🧪

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.

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👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Acıbadem Üniversitesi and ITU 🧪

Issue 39 is now online! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

🔓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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 🧪

🔓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👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @rug.nl and @univgirona.bsky.social 🧪

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👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... 🧪

🎉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👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #chemsky 🧪

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👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Zhengzhou University of Light Industry🧪

🔓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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Uppsala University 🧪

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💡 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Manipur University 🧪

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👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Uniwersytet Opolski, Rutgers University 🧪

Issue 38 is out now! Read it here👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

🔓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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍UNAM, Mexico

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👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍VIT Vellore and Alipurduar University 🧪

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👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 🧪

🔓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👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Jadavpur University, @kit.edu and IIT Hyderabad 🧪

🔓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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Keio University 🧪

Issue 37 is out now! Read it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Beijing Institute of Technology

🔓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👀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @univofmaryland.bsky.social 🧪

Issue 36 is out now! Access it here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

🔓Don't miss this #OpenAccess Frontier article by Liam P. Griffin and @josefboronski.bsky.social outlining recent advances in heterometallic alkaline earth metals and pathways to future breakthroughs⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @manchester.ac.uk, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 🧪

Our latest article is now online in @daltontrans.rsc.org! We looked at the role of molecular symmetry in determining spin state in a family of Fe(III) complexes. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our back cover highlights the work by Guillaume Bélanger-Chabot and colleagues exploring the synthesis of nitrated triarylphosphine oxides using traditional nitrating conditions, go take a look💡 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 @ulaval.ca 🧪