We are thrilled to announce the next Editor-in-Chief of
@InorgChem
is Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dehnen
@DehnenStefanie
of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Please send in a few manuscripts to get her started!
@ACSPublications
Next time you sit down to write up your latest results on MOFs or atomically precise clusters, think about your characterization methods and data. What should be required? Have you done enough? Check out this
@InorgChem
editorial to join the conversation
We wish Prof. Ralph Pearson a Happy 103rd Birthday today! Prof. Pearson created the Hard-Soft Acid-Base principle in the 1960s as a useful way to predict chemical reactivity. He is living well in Santa Barbara after retiring from
@UCSB_chemistry
.
Congratulations to our
@InorgChem
Associate Editor Prof. Suzanne Bart
@TheBartLab
for receiving the F. Albert Cotton Award for superstar synthetic inorganic chemistry. Symposium rolling now at
#ACSSpring2024
in New Orleans
Join
@InorgChem
virtually at ACS Atlanta on Aug. 23 to celebrate Lectureship Award recipient
@icjennikins
! Learn more here: . Check out the fantastic symposium lineup here: .
We started publishing
@InorgChem
on Feb. 1, 1962. We've come far, and now share some of our great moments in inorganic chemistry from across the Periodic Table. Please read the editorial and Virtual Issue celebrating our 60th Birthday
@ACSPublications
A belated birthday? We recently turned 60 and aren't bashful in inviting you to continue celebrating with us. Check out "60 Years of Inorganic Chemistry" a brief history of our milestones since
@InorgChem
began in 1962
@ACSPublications
Congratulations to Alexandra Velian, winner of the 2023 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship! Presented with
@acsinordivision
, the award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated creativity & impact in the field. Learn more about the award and Prof. Velian:
As 2021 comes to an close, the
@InorgChem
Team wants to thank all our authors and reviewers and members of the Inorganic Chemistry Community for helping us achieve a great year in the face of many challenges. Best wishes for 2022.
May Day is charge-transfer day here
@InorgChem
. The cover of our new issue features a rhenium(II) complex that exhibits LMCT while the rhenium(I) species exhibits MLCT. Check out this and all the latest articles here:
We are organizing an "Out in Inorganic Chemistry" virtual issue as a visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ authors. Interested in including one of your
@InorgChem
or
@ACSPublications
articles (2020 or more recent)? DM
@InorgChem
or guest editors
@abhikghosh
or
@WBTolman
. Please RT.
Quite the event happening in Goa, the International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis 2023!
#ICOC2023
@icoc2023
. Our
@InorgChem
editors Franc Meyer, Partha Mukherjee, and Stefanie Dehnen
@DehnenStefanie
are sharing their perspectives on new catalysts and materials 🙌.
We are pleased to announce and welcome to the
@InorgChem
editorial team new Associate Editor Prof. Christopher "Kit" Cummins of MIT. Prof. Cummins may soon be handling your main-group chemistry manuscript ... please submit a few to get him started.
Just out in
@InorgChem
a team from Osaka has revealed a fascinating gadolinium(III) complex coordinated with three diradical anionic gold(I) units, overall a molecule having 13 unpaired electrons. Please have a look:
Our
@InorgChem
#TOCoftheweek
: Cage me if you can! The encapsulation of dicyanoarene guests by a Pd2L4 cage is studied by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy, and also by Raman in both the solution and solid state. Please have a look:
Our latest issue is out today, bringing you more of the best inorganic chemistry from across the Periodic Table. Speaking of Periodic Tables, see the editorial about updating yours, and check out the whole slew of
@InorgChem
articles here:
@ACSPublications
Who’s grabbing the dumbbell? Faraonov et al. report the first dianionic fullerene dimer bonded by two iron carbonyl fragments, where negative electron density is localized on the C60 cages and on the iron atoms. Please have a look at our
#TOCoftheWeek
:
Our new issue is a Special One (), celebrating a Virtual Issue () as part of our visibility campaign for LGBTQIAPN+ inorganic chemists, including the Front Cover, part of ACS's Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series!
@ACSPublications
Inorganic Chemistry welcomes new Editor-in-Chief, Professor Stefanie Dehnen, Ph.D. Learn more about Prof. Dehnen, her work and her vision for the Journal in this ACS Axial interview:
We at
@InorgChem
are pleased to share that Associate Editor Prof. Roberta Sessoli
@RSessoli
has been elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
@Leopoldina
, a great honor for both Prof. Sessoli and the Academy. Congratulations!
Radium Revisited: Revitalization of the Coordination Chemistry of Nature’s Largest +2 Cation. More must-read rad-Ra chemistry from
@TEAS_Actinides
and colleagues, an
#ACSEditorsChoice
selection!
We are excited to announce that Prof. Richard Brutchey (USC,
@BrutcheyGroup
), Prof. Annette Rompel (Vienna,
@RompelLab
), and Prof. Jochen Autschbach (Buffalo,
@AutschbachLab
) are joining
@InorgChem
as Associate Editors on Jan. 1. One of them may soon be handling your manuscript!
How do you quantify the Lewis acidity of metal ions? pKa values of H2O complexes work well, but dry conditions add doubt. Kumar & Blakemore
@KUChemistry
show that 31P NMR plus the pKa’s can help. Learn more here:
This is cool,
@InorgChem
Assoc. Editor Vivian Yam & colleagues at Hong Kong University have been making their own hand sanitizer per WHO recipes () and using it, plus providing it to students, staff, and local community.
@ACSPublications
#WhatChemistsCanDo
Boron Dreams: Remembering Fred Hawthorne (1928-2001), Editor-in-Chief of
@InorgChem
for 31 years. "Boron is my element—not that I own boron, but it owns me" (). ACS Priestley Medalist ().
@ACSPublications
@AmerChemSociety
Introducing NHIPS! N-Heterocyclic Iminophosphoranes were obtained by the Cummins lab
@ccclabmit
in a modular synthesis by [3+2] cycloaddition of azophosphines with activated alkynes. NHIPs are both σ and π basic! Learn more here:
Together with
@ACSINORDivision
, we are pleased to announce this year's winner of the Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship:
Daniel Suess, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Learn more about the award and Prof. Suess' research on ACS Axial:
@ChemistryMIT
Three cheers for Prof. Vivian Yam
@VivianYam1
, stepping down from the
@InorgChem
Editorial Board after a fantastic 12 years as Associate Editor. Thank you, Vivian. We will miss you!
Meow!
#TOCoftheWeek
alert! Oliemuller et al synthesize a manganese complex with three-coordinate N-heterocyclic phosphorus fragment; the electrophilic nature of the phosphenium and the nucleophilic Mn center are examined. Please have a look:
@CThomas_group
Out in Inorganic Chemistry: A Celebration of LGBTQIAPN+ Inorganic Chemists. Revisiting our 2022 Editorial (), Front Cover (), and Virtual Issue () for 2023 Pride Month.
Our latest issue is out! Read about the influence of bending in uranyl units, titanium(II) as a fuel atom, borylene hijinks, metal aromaticity, Xxx-Zzz peptidizationism, dinitrogen iron butterflies, and sundry other topics from across the Periodic Table
Out today,
@DuhmeKlairYork
and team from
@ChemistryatYork
revisits the speciation of Fe(III) siderophore complexes and reports an electrifying investigation that reveals the formation of a coordinatively unsaturated Fe(III)-azotochelin complex:
Time to celebrate! Attend the
@InorgChem
&
@ACSINORDivision
Lectureship Award symposium in honor of Rare Earther Eric Schelter
@SchelterGroup
coming April 5 (1-4 PM Pacific). Learn more here: . Check the ACS meeting program here:
We are happy to announce a new Associate Editor joining the IC team: Welcome Prof Banglin Chen (Fujian Normal University, Zhejiang Normal University) with an expertise in porous compounds and materials--MOFs, COFs, and HOFs! Please submit a manuscript to help Banglin get started.
From Team Klapötke in
@InorgChem
: HN3 consists of 97.7-wt% nitrogen and is highly endothermic, highly explosive, and quite toxic with a b.p. of +36°C and freezes at -80°C. They now report a crystal structure obtained with synchrotron radiation. Learn more:
This week in
@InorgChem
it's more great chemistry from all across the Periodic Table (). On the cover, grab a paddle and discover which ligand wins the race to Mn(II) stabilty.
The new issue of
@InorgChem
is out, chock full of chemistry from all across the Periodic Table, including the cover article by Tomson et al on metal–metal bonding and ligand redox-activity in Fe, Co, Ni macrocycles. Check it all out here:
@ACSPublications
XL chelator development for an XL ion! Scientists from
@ORNL
@ORNL_PhysSci
@ORNLIsotopes
team up to explore a new 21-membered macrocycle for 223Ra-based targeted alpha therapy. Part of our upcoming Forum Issue "Inorganic Chemistry of Radiopharmaceuticals"
Whoa, what a fantastic symposium for the Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship. All 8 talks were thought-provoking, and all speakers had a connection in some way with
@velianlab
. Packed house at
#ACSFall2023
. Shown here the presentation by
@DehnenStefanie
and delivering the lecture.
Released today, the latest
@InorgChem
Virtual Issue: The Impact of Modern Spectroscopy in Inorganic Chemistry (). Associate Editors Franc Meyer and Frank Nesse provide a franck discussion on the topic in their introductory editorial:
Boranes never go out of style! This week our front cover depicts a new twist: Boronated Cyanometallates from
@BrendonMcNicho
and colleagues that give rise to novel ligand-to-metal charge transfer transitions. Check out all the new articles in this issue:
Read about it now
@InorgChem
: A sodium anion—once a very challenging inorganic chemical to make, now available easily following a recent report from
@erli_lu
group at Birmingham and Newcastle
@ChemistryNCL
:
A linear, electron-rich, homoleptic rare-earth metallocene containing two dibenzocyclooctatetraene dianions, unprecedented for any metal ion, is showcased by
@GroupDemir
@MSUChem
. The sandwich complex is redox-active as proven by EPR. Please have a look:
New in
@InorgChem
: Indefinitely stable complexes of Fe(IV), Ni(IV) and Mn(IV) formed by spontaneous oxidation with air. Please check out the research from
@SukhorukovAlex
Group
Congratulations to our
@InorgChem
Associate Editor Christopher Cummins at MIT
@ccclabmit
for being named recipient of the 2023 M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry. Please check out Kit's research in ACS journals:
We are over the moon with this week's issue of
@InorgChem
, with a cover featuring spiroselenurane catalysts--selenium, derived from the Greek 'selene,' meaning 'moon,' inspired the lovely artwork. Please have a look at all the articles:
@ACSPublications
Two Faced! The Lewis acidity of the Group 15 bridgehead atoms (E = Sb vs. Bi) proves to be a decisive structural directing factor in the coordination of tris(3-pyridyl) ligands. Please see the article from Álvarez, García-Rodríguez, and colleagues: .
Exploring azacryptand samarium complexes,
@HlinaJohann
and coworkers report a dinuclear complex with intermetallic space available for small molecule coordination. Check our our latest article from
@InorgChem
:
We welcome to
@InorgChem
new Associate Editor Prof. Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo of the City University of Hong Kong (). Look for Prof. Lo to handle your manuscripts on luminescent transition-metal complexes in applications such as sensors and bioimaging reagents.
Revealed! Our cover this week depicts the structure of a reactive SmI2‒water complex useful in reductive conversion of organic and inorganic compounds, and how the water molecules assist in Sm‒I bond dissociation. See this and all the new articles here:
Happy sawing! Nazish et al. prepare and characterize chain-type silicon(I) and antimony(I) unsaturated molecules as heavy analogues of imine and ethane 1,2-diimine. Please take a look at our
#TOCoftheWeek
:
Our latest issue is out, and it's a doozy! . More great chemistry from across the Periodic Table, plus we celebrate our 60th Birthday reflecting on our enduring achievements since we began in 1962! Read all about it:
@ACSPublications
Here's our final issue of 2022 (), closing out the year with a cationic platinum σ-GeH complex on the cover and thoughts of outgoing EIC Bill Tolman in our hearts--see his farewell editorial ().
@ACSPublications
It's deep purple week at
@InorgChem
: Our Front Cover tells the story of replacing boron with other group 13 elements to create azaMDIPYs that are as bright as normal azaBODIPYs but emitting further in the near-infrared. Check out all the articles:
@InorgChem
congratulates Prof. Daniel Suess of MIT for receiving the 2024 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award presented at the ACS Fall Meeting in Denver by EIC Stefanie Dehnen!
@DehnenStefanie
New in
@InorgChem
: Weak pnictogen interactions in [P(C6H4-o-CH2SCH3)3BiCl3] can be tuned into dative bonds by enhancing the charge transfer from phosphorus to bismuth! Have a look at this "flexidentate ligand" work from
@z_benko
and
@DominikusHeift
It's time for another new issue of
@InorgChem
! On the cover we feature the photochemistry/photocytotoxicity of half-sandwich Os-arene complexes, which exhibit high potency toward cisplatin-resistant cancer cell lines. See all the articles:
@ACSPublications
Could you have the next antimicrobial lying around your lab? Send 1 mg of any of your compounds to antibiotic hunters
@Angelo_Frei
&
@mark_blaskovich
to test (for free). You keep the data and IP. Part of the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery:
Congratulations to
@InorgChem
Advisory Board Member Robert Gilliard of the University of Virginia as 2023 recipient of the Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator. Please have a look at his research in ACS journals
Simms et al. report a novel 21-membered macrocyclic ligand, macropa-XL, that shows promise in advancing radium-223 for targeted α therapy by effectively chelating and stabilizing large 223Ra2+ ions. Don’t miss our
#TOCoftheWeek
:
A new
@InorgChem
Forum! This special issue focuses on the photophysics and photochemistry of transition-metal complexes, a thriving branch of research driving development of energy-saving concepts and innovative applications of materials.
@ACSPublications
Brannan et al. report nickel complexes with a bismuth-containing pincer ligand, showcasing the potential of a Bi-Ni moiety as a new type of heterobimetallic site for a variety of chemical transformations. Please take a look at our
#TOCoftheWeek
:
Copper complexes of tripodal ligands with one terminal carboxylato donor show fast electrocatalytic ORR in water at pH 7. The downside: Phosphate buffer causes complex instability at low potentials. Learn all about it from
@McKenzie_SDU
and colleagues
Drum roll please ... our 2022 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship recipient is Hemamala Karunadasa! recognized for her application of molecular design principles to push boundaries in solid-state inorganic chemistry. Learn more here:
@ACSINORDivision
Just out in
@InorgChem
,
@WillEckenhoff
and his team of undergraduate students
@RhodesCollege
just published this manuscript on a new class of highly solvatochromic Mo(III) complexes. Please check it out:
🌟 Meet the 2023 ACS Organic & Inorganic Au Rising Stars. 🌟
These inspirational new leaders represent the future of chemical research. Check out their work here 👉
Our
#TOCoftheWeek
: Meow! Oliemuller et al. report the bonding interactions and electronic structure of a diphosphine pincer ligand with an N-heterocyclic phosphenium/phosphido central unit with nickel. Please check it out:
We are pleased to announce and welcome to the
@InorgChem
Editorial Team new Associate Editors Prof. Yu Tang of Lanzhou University and Prof. Susan Latturner of Florida State University. Get to know them a bit better here:
Today in
@InorgChem
, our tribute to the late, the great Fred Hawthorne, past Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Published in our latest issue out today (). Please have a look at the Editorial: .
For our
#TOCoftheWeek
, Sarkar et al. report the encapsulation of o-, m-, and p-carboranes in the cavities of the three neutral tetrahedral palladium(II) cages. The assembly formation is examined by MS, IR, NMR, and DFT calculations. Please have a look:
Out today in
@InorgChem
Miyake and colleagues show how iron(III) 5,15-diazaporphyrins work as efficient catalysts for direct oxidation of C(sp3)–H bonds due to their intrinsic electron-deficient nature. Please check it out:
X-ray emission spectroscopy distinguishes NO reduction, and side-on and end-on NO coordination to Ni. See the new
@InorgChem
article by
@stieberlab
@TheWarrenLab
and undergraduate work by
@phannphu
! Here it is:
A textbook example of crystal-field theory predicting geometries across a redox series of cobalt complexes that are structurally characterized in 5 distinct metal oxidation states. Please see the
@InorgChem
article by
@Kurtz_717
and
@Hunter_Lab_RIH
This week in
@InorgChem
, we feature on our cover mechanistic insights and synthetic explorations of photoredox-catalyzed activation of halophosphines. There's also a ton of other exciting developments on more than you can imagine. Check it all out:
This week in
@InorgChem
enjoy learning about the distinctive electronic structure of the actinides, as presented beautifully in the cover article. Don't stop there, the whole issue has something for everyone from across the Periodic Table!
@ACSPublications
Taking you into the weekend, and Chinese New Year of the Rat, this interesting
@InorgChem
article on a new ring--a palladium cluster that looks like benzene and has aromatic character
One metal to rule them all: A structural, computational, and reactivity study of a stable bimetallic Mo(VI) trioxo/Mo(0) tricarbonyl complex in the context of Mo-Cu CODH.
@GroysmanLab
@Kdonui
@waynestatechem
New monomeric and polymeric lanthanide species generated by tacn- or pyclen-based chelators with pyridinylphosphonic pendants. From
@SynpaTeam
and
@RTripier
. Learn all about it:
Today in
@InorgChem
, a sulfur analogue of trimesate enters coordination chemistry: A tritopic dithiocarboxylate ligand, presented by
@FischerGroupTUM
@apoethig
@WarnanLab
. Results on the versatile coordination behavior and electronic communication are here
Another piece to the puzzle by
@BauerResearch
in
@InorgChem
: The complex influence of substituents at N-heterocyclic carbene ligands on ground- and excited-state properties of iron(II) complexes. Please have a look .