Daniel J.
Mindiola
*a,
John
Arnold
b,
Theo
Agapie
c,
Jennifer
Love
d and
Mircea
Dinca
e
aDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
bDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
cChemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1200 California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
dChemistry Department, University of British Colombia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada
eChemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Multifaceted chemistry is what brands this subject complex and challenging, but this same origin of complexity is what has enabled this physical science to evolve over the ages. Why am I emphasizing the broader implications of chemistry? Because inorganic chemistry can no longer be labeled as a specialized field that focuses only on metallic and metal ions, it goes far beyond this.
In this special “New talent: Americas” issue in Dalton Transactions, we showcase a group of young, talented scientists who combine multiple subdisciplines of chemistry to solve difficult and challenging problems, but also to address the fundamental inquiries which relate to the intrinsic aspects of new molecules with unusual properties, storage materials, catalysts, biofunctional systems and sensors.
We hope the readership of Dalton Transactions appreciates the energy embedded in the manuscripts compiled in this special issue. Contributors were chosen based on a broad range of topics involving bioinorganic, catalysis, materials, organometallic and theoretical chemistry and/or combinations thereof. The guest editors and I are also proud to announce that this issue contains over 50 contributions from the Americas, most of which entail research communications and articles, in addition to some short reviews.
We hope you enjoy this selection of papers that features some of the brightest young inorganic chemists on the American continent. So take a seat, relax with a cup of joe or tea and let your mind go free while reading some of the contents in this issue.
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