New talent: Americas, 2020

Since Dalton Transactions launched its “New Talent” series in 2011,¹ issues championing emerging investigators in the Asia-Pacific region,^1,2 the Americas,³ and Europe⁴ have provided a valuable service to the inorganic community both by recognizing young talent and by showcasing the broad reach of inorganic chemistry to solve important problems facing society. It is our pleasure to continue this tradition and announce the 2020 edition in this series. In this issue, we present contributions from a new group of talented authors from across the Americas, with increased representation from Latin America and Canada compared to the previous iteration, to complement the contributions from the USA.

The issue comes to publication at a challenging time in world history, with scientific endeavors in the Americas and across the world hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. From a practical standpoint, the pandemic presents obstacles particularly to new laboratories in the process of building up the infrastructure and expertise needed to test their exciting new ideas. We hope that inclusion in this themed issue helps, in some small way, to raise these young investigators up to eventually overcome these unprecedented obstacles to progress.

When thinking about the pool of possible authors, we focused on those within the first ∼10 years of their independent careers. Therefore, although the majority of contributions come from young research groups led by assistant professors, also included are some more established researchers at the associate and even full professor levels. Dalton Transactions is proud to offer a truly international forum for disseminating high-quality research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. The articles included in this issue reflect the remarkable breadth and diversity of modern inorganic chemistry. A wide range of topics are represented in the issue's communications, articles, and perspectives: spanning the periodic table from boranes to lanthanides; exploring forms of matter from classical coordination compounds to metallodrugs, catalysts, coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks, and nanomaterials; using advanced methodology such as EXAFS and hyperspectral microscopy; and covering up-to-date themes including water oxidation, CO₂ reduction, and promising SARS-Cov-2 therapeutics.

Finally, we are grateful to the Dalton Transactions team, especially Publishing Editors Dr Helen Lunn, Dr Paige Boxhall, and Dr Hayley Russell, and Susannah Davies (Editorial Production Manager) for their efforts and dedication to guarantee a successful issue.

We hope Dalton Transactions’ readership enjoys this issue, as well as the other “Themed Collections” (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/dt#!themedcollections). Lastly, we wish the entire Dalton Transactions community of readers, authors, editors, and staff good health and safety during this challenging time.

References

1. M. Yamashita, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2091.
2. (a) H. Nishihara, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 15074; (b) V. Chandrasekhar, G.-X. Jin and P. J. Low, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 7046.
3. J. Arnold and T. M. Nenoff, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 9743.
4. (a) M. Tamm and M. D. Walter, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 4196; (b) R. A. Layfield, M. Mazzanti, N. Meltzer-Nolte and S. Ott, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 10319.

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