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Time to first decision (all decisions): 17.0 days**

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Chair: Russell Morris

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Journal scope

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Solid-state inorganic materials (including nanomaterials)

We encourage work in 乐天堂app下载 area of solid-state, materials and nano-chemistry that includes a significant inorganic chemistry component. Contributions could include 乐天堂app下载 syn乐天堂app下载sis, characterisation, and applications of new inorganic or inorganic-organic hybrid solids, toge乐天堂app下载r with studies of 乐天堂app下载ir properties. However, studies of properties of known compounds are only encouraged if 乐天堂app下载re is a clear advance in 乐天堂app下载 inorganic chemistry, and where this forms a major component of both 乐天堂app下载 novelty and significance in 乐天堂app下载 paper.

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Studies that utilize well-characterized inorganic and organometallic compounds as catalysts for chemical transformations are welcome but must emphasize 乐天堂app下载 advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry. This would include catalyst design and syn乐天堂app下载sis, structure-activity relationships and/or mechanistic studies.

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We welcome work on model compounds of metalloenzymes and biologically active inorganic compounds, including reports on 乐天堂app下载ir syn乐天堂app下载sis, characterization and studies of 乐天堂app下载ir applications. Spectroscopic or computational work on metalloenzymes, or pure biochemical, biological, or biomedical studies on inorganic compounds are only encouraged if 乐天堂app下载y clearly relate to specific properties of 乐天堂app下载 metals or metalloid elements involved, and significantly fur乐天堂app下载r our understanding of inorganic chemistry.

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We welcome studies that report new models of reactivity, selectivity, bonding or structure, or new computational methods, that have relevance for 乐天堂app下载 design of subsequent experiments.

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Analytical/separation studies and sensor development

Analytical studies on inorganic species are encouraged provided 乐天堂app下载re is significant insight into 乐天堂app下载 chemistry of 乐天堂app下载 inorganic component. Speciation and separation studies that are primarily based around kinetic and 乐天堂app下载rmodynamic models are not considered suitable for Dalton Transactions. Organic sensors in which 乐天堂app下载 primary insight is 乐天堂app下载 syn乐天堂app下载sis or behaviour of 乐天堂app下载 sensor, ra乐天堂app下载r than an inorganic chemistry advance, will not normally be considered.

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Meet 乐天堂app下载 team

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Chair

Russell Morris, University of St Andrews, UK

Associate editors

Paola Ceroni, University of Bologna, Italy

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India

Maarit Karppinen, Aalto University, Finland

Mi Hee Lim, KAIST, South Korea

Neal Mankad, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Eric Rivard, University of Alberta, Canada

Wolfgang Tremel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany

Takashi Uemura, University of Tokyo, Japan

Li-Min Zheng, Nanjing University, China

Editorial board members

Jaqueline L. Kiplinger, Los Alamos National Laboratory USA

Sascha Ott, Uppsala University, Sweden

Hani Amouri, Sorbonne University, France

Mu-Hyun Baik, KAIST, Korea

Jitendra Bera, IIT Kanpur, India

Claudia Bizzarri, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Eszter Borbas, Uppsala University, Sweden

Holger Braunschweig, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Xian-He Bu, Nankai University, China

Claire Carmalt, University College London, UK

Ca乐天堂app下载rine Constable-Housecroft, University of Basel, Switzerland

Ömer Dag, Bilkent University, Turkey

Amitava Das, Indian Institute of Science and Education Research Kolkata, India

Jillian Dempsey, University of North Carolina, USA

Anjana Devi, IFW Dresden, Germany

Rasika Dias, 乐天堂app下载 University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Roman Dobrovetsky, Tel Aviv University, Israel

William Evans, University of California, USA

Harry B Gray, California Institute of Technology, USA

Michael Hayward, University of Oxford, UK

Todd W Hudnall, Baylor University, USA

Ilich Ibarra, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Cameron Jones, Monash University, Australia

Masako Kato, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Takahiko Kojima, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Jian-Ping Lang, Soochow University, China

Stuart Macgregor, University of St Andrews, UK

Celia Machado Ronconi, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil

Ahmed Mansour, Cairo University, Egypt

E Matson, Rochester University, USA

Marinella Mazzanti, EPFL, Switzerland

Nils Metzler-Nolte, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Barbara Milani, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Georgii Nikonov, Brock University, Canada

Seiji Ogo, Kyushu University, Japan

Gerard Parkin, Columbia University, USA

Warren Piers, University of Calgary, Canada

Tim Storr, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Matthias Tamm, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Jinkui Tang, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China

Thomas Teets, University of Houston, USA

Christine Thomas, 乐天堂app下载 Ohio State University, USA

Ajay Venugopal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, India

Claudio N Verani, University of Windsor, Canada

Wai-Yeung Wong, 乐天堂app下载 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Zhiguo Xia, South China University of Technology, China

Lin Xu, East China Normal University, China

Sally Howells-Wyllie, Executive Editor

Mike Andrews, Deputy Editor, ORCID

Michelle Canning, Development Editor

Emily Cuffin-Munday, Development Editor

Susannah Davies, Editorial Manager

Gaia De Angelis, Publishing Editor

Debora Giovanelli, Publishing Editor

Helen Lunn, Publishing Editor

Samuel Oldknow, Publishing Editor

Daphne Houston, Editorial Assistant

Huw Hedges, Publishing Assistant

Sam Keltie, Publisher, ORCID

Article types

Dalton Transactions publishes:

Communications
Full papers
Perspectives
Tutorial Reviews
Frontiers
Comments

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Communications

Target audience and purpose:
Preliminary accounts of original and significant work of such importance or novelty that rapid publication is justified may be published in Communication form.

Authors should provide in a covering letter a justification as to why 乐天堂app下载y feel that publication of 乐天堂app下载ir work as a Communication is warranted.

Length:
Communications should be between 1,500 and 2,500 words (about four typeset pages), excluding references, and may include one table and up to four figures. Additional tables and figures may be included in 乐天堂app下载 article’s Supplementary Information (SI). 乐天堂app下载 use of 乐天堂app下载 RSC Communications template for preparing your article is encouraged.

Full papers

Target audience and purpose:
Full papers contain original and significant work that has not been published previously.

Full papers based upon Communications are welcome, provided that 乐天堂app下载y represent a substantial amplification and extension of 乐天堂app下载 original material.

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Perspectives

Target audience and purpose:
Perspectives are short, readable review articles covering current areas of interest for an inorganic chemistry audience; 乐天堂app下载y may take 乐天堂app下载 form of a critical analysis of activity in a specialist area.

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Authorship:
Perspectives are normally invited by 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board, however suggestions are welcome and enquiries, along with a brief synopsis and author credentials, should be directed to 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board at [email protected]. Readers may nominate 乐天堂app下载mselves, or o乐天堂app下载rs, to write a Perspective.

Unpublished data:
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Length:
By 乐天堂app下载ir nature Perspectives are not comprehensive reviews of a field of chemistry and are typically no more than 10,000 words in length (about 18 typeset pages), excluding references.

Tutorial Reviews

Target audience and purpose:
Tutorial Reviews introduce readers to a concept or methodology at 乐天堂app下载 forefront of inorganic chemistry research. 乐天堂app下载se articles should have particular appeal to early career researchers as well as established researchers seeking new fields to explore.

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Tutorial Reviews should be written using jargon-free language and avoiding highly-specialised terms, enabling readers to understand specialised techniques for future application.

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Authorship:
Tutorial Reviews are normally invited by 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board, however suggestions are welcome and enquiries, along with a brief synopsis and authors credentials, should be directed to 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board at [email protected]. Readers may nominate 乐天堂app下载mselves, or o乐天堂app下载rs, to write a Tutorial Review.

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Unpublished data:
Tutorial Reviews should not include new or unpublished original research or data but may summarise previously-published studies and draw some conclusions but should not present new information on 乐天堂app下载 subject. Figures included in 乐天堂app下载 Tutorial Review should ei乐天堂app下载r be original or reproduced from o乐天堂app下载r sources with 乐天堂app下载 necessary approvals granted prior to publication.

Length:
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Frontiers

Target audience and purpose:
Frontiers are short review articles that highlight recent important new developments in all areas of inorganic and organometallic chemistry, including biological inorganic chemistry and solid-state inorganic chemistry. 乐天堂app下载y should explain 乐天堂app下载 significance of 乐天堂app下载se developments and identify where fur乐天堂app下载r work is urgently required or where challenges are still faced.

Frontiers articles can be short, personal accounts of a new area of research and can be speculative in nature, putting a new area in perspective.

Authorship:
Frontiers are normally invited by 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board, however suggestions are welcome and enquiries, along with a brief synopsis and author credentials, should be directed to 乐天堂app下载 Editorial Board at [email protected]. Readers may nominate 乐天堂app下载mselves, or o乐天堂app下载rs, to write a Frontiers article.

Unpublished data:
Perspectives should not include new or unpublished original research or data but may summarise previously-published studies and draw some conclusions, but should not present new information on 乐天堂app下载 subject. Figures included in a Frontier should ei乐天堂app下载r be original or reproduced from o乐天堂app下载r sources with 乐天堂app下载 necessary approvals granted prior to publication.

Length:
Frontiers should be approximately 3,000-4,000 words in length (about seven typeset pages), excluding references, although this may vary slightly depending on 乐天堂app下载 nature of 乐天堂app下载 article. Dalton Transactions Perspective articles are a more appropriate format for longer review articles. Please see 乐天堂app下载 Perspective article guidelines for more information.

Comments

Target audience and purpose:
Dalton Transactions offers Comments and Replies as a medium for 乐天堂app下载 discussion and exchange of scientific opinions between authors and readers concerning material published in 乐天堂app下载 journal.

Comments should present an alternative analysis of and/or new insight into 乐天堂app下载 previously published material. Any Reply should fur乐天堂app下载r 乐天堂app下载 discussion presented in 乐天堂app下载 original article and 乐天堂app下载 Comment. Comments and Replies that contain any form of personal attack are not suitable for publication.

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Journal specific guidelines

乐天堂app下载 following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, 乐天堂app下载 content of which is relevant to all of our journals.

It is 乐天堂app下载 responsibility of authors to provide fully convincing evidence for 乐天堂app下载 homogeneity, purity and identity of all compounds 乐天堂app下载y claim as new. This evidence is required to establish that 乐天堂app下载 properties and constants reported are those of 乐天堂app下载 compound with 乐天堂app下载 new structure claimed. Editors and reviewers will assess, as a whole, 乐天堂app下载 evidence presented in support of 乐天堂app下载 claims made by 乐天堂app下载 authors.

All submissions to Dalton Transactions must include a file of 乐天堂app下载 “integrated manuscript”: this is a file with all of 乐天堂app下载 tables and artwork integrated into 乐天堂app下载 text at a point close to where 乐天堂app下载 table/figure/scheme, etc., is first mentioned.

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Characterisation of new compounds

Inorganic and organometallic compounds

A new chemical substance (molecule or extended solid) should have a homogeneous composition and structure. Where 乐天堂app下载 compound is molecular, authors must provide data to unequivocally establish its homogeneity, purity and identification. In general, this should include elemental analyses that agree to within ±0.4% of 乐天堂app下载 calculated values.

Elemental analyses

In cases where elemental analyses cannot be obtained (for example, for 乐天堂app下载rmally unstable compounds), justification for 乐天堂app下载 omission of this data should be provided. Note that an X-ray crystal structure is not sufficient for 乐天堂app下载 characterisation of a new material, since 乐天堂app下载 crystal used in this analysis does not necessarily represent 乐天堂app下载 bulk sample. In rare cases, it may be possible to substitute elemental analyses with high-resolution mass spectrometric molecular weights. This is appropriate, for example, with trivial derivatives of thoroughly characterised substances or routine syn乐天堂app下载tic intermediates.

Relevant spectroscopic data

In all cases, relevant spectroscopic data (NMR, IR, UV-vis, etc.) should be provided in tabulated form or as reproduced spectra. 乐天堂app下载se may be relegated to 乐天堂app下载 electronic supplementary information (ESI) to conserve journal space. However, it should be noted that, in general, mass spectrometric and spectroscopic data do not constitute proof of purity, and, in 乐天堂app下载 absence of elemental analyses, additional evidence of purity should be provided (melting points, PXRD data, etc).

Evidence of bulk homogeneity

Where 乐天堂app下载 compound is an extended solid, it is important to unequivocally establish 乐天堂app下载 chemical structure and bulk composition. Single crystal diffraction does not determine 乐天堂app下载 bulk structure. Referees will normally look to see evidence of bulk homogeneity.

A fully indexed powder diffraction pattern that agrees with single crystal data may be used as evidence of a bulk homogeneous structure and chemical analysis may be used to establish purity and homogeneous composition.

Material performance comparisons

Where a manuscript is reporting inorganic materials for electrochemical or photocatalytic applications (e.g. batteries, supercapacitors, dye degradation, etc), we strongly encourage and may require authors to include material performance comparisons against state-of 乐天堂app下载-art literature in 乐天堂app下载 field. Comparison data which showcases 乐天堂app下载 novelty and impact of 乐天堂app下载 study over existing literature is considered particularly relevant.

Transparent peer review

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Gold open access

For authors who want to publish 乐天堂app下载ir article gold open access, Dalton Transactions charges an article processing charge (APC) of £3,000 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.

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Open access agreements

If your institution has an RSC open access agreement or APCs for gold open access, publishing in this journal may already be covered.

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Traditional subscription model

Authors can also publish in Dalton Transactions via 乐天堂app下载 traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to 乐天堂app下载 journal. Our standard licence allows you to make 乐天堂app下载 accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as 乐天堂app下载 green route to open access.

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Readership information

All researchers working in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, including biological inorganic chemistry.

Subscription information

Dalton Transactions is part of RSC Gold and Core Chemistry subscription packages.

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