Dalton Transactions is a journal for all areas of inorganic chemistry, which encompasses the organometallic, bioinorganic and materials chemistry of the elements, with applications including synthesis, catalysis, energy conversion/storage, electrical devices and medicine. Dalton Transactions welcomes high-quality, original submissions in all of these areas and more, where the advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry is significant. Specific guidance for some areas of our scope is given below.Solid-state inorganic materials (including nanomaterials): We encourage work in the area of solid-state, materials and nano-chemistry that includes a significant inorganic chemistry component. Contributions could include the synthesis, characterisation, and applications of new inorganic or inorganic-organic hybrid solids, together with studies of their properties. However, studies of properties of known compounds are only encouraged if there is a clear advance in the inorganic chemistry, and where this forms a major component of both the novelty and significance in the paper.Catalysis: Studies that utilize well-characterized inorganic and organometallic compounds as catalysts for chemical transformations are welcome but must emphasize the advancement of knowledge in inorganic chemistry. This would include catalyst design and synthesis, structure-activity relationships and/or mechanistic studies. Work reporting new catalysts for well-studied reactions must contextualize the reported results within the state-of-the-art to demonstrate impact and advancement. Studies that generate ill-defined species in situ and/or report tables of catalytic data without appropriate comparison with existing catalysts will not be considered at Dalton Transactions.Bioinorganic and medicinal inorganic chemistry: We welcome work on model compounds of metalloenzymes and biologically active inorganic compounds, including reports on their synthesis, characterization and studies of their applications. Spectroscopic or computational work on metalloenzymes, or pure biochemical, biological, or biomedical studies on inorganic compounds are only encouraged if they clearly relate to specific properties of the metals or metalloid elements involved, and significantly further our understanding of inorganic chemistry. The same applies to papers related to the sensing and visualization of biorelevant metal ions. Such work is expected to have its focus on inorganic aspects and must completely characterize the inorganic compounds involved.Theoretical and computational studies: We welcome studies that report new models of reactivity, selectivity, bonding or structure, or new computational methods, that have relevance for the design of subsequent experiments. This is most clearly demonstrated by the description of testable predictions derived from the results of the reported theoretical work; the tests of these predictions could be contained in the same paper in which the predictions are described. Computational research that merely reproduces experimental data is not normally suitable for Dalton Transactions.

道爾頓學報是無機化學的所有領域的期刊，包括有機金屬、生物無機和材料化學的元素，應用包括合成、催化、能量轉換/儲存、電氣設備和醫學。道爾頓學報歡迎在所有這些領域以及更多領域提交高質量的原始材料，在這些領域中，無機化學知識的進步是重要的。下面給出了我們范圍內某些領域的具體指導。固態無機材料（包括納米材料）：我們鼓勵在固態、材料和納米化學領域開展工作，其中包括重要的無機化學成分。貢獻可能包括新的無機或無機-有機雜化固體的合成、表征和應用，以及對其性質的研究。然而，只有在無機化學有明顯進展的情況下，才鼓勵對已知化合物的性質進行研究，而這是本文新穎性和重要性的主要組成部分。催化：利用具有良好特征的無機和有機金屬化合物作為化學轉化催化劑的研究是受歡迎的，但必須強調無機化學知識的進步。這將包括催化劑設計和合成、結構-活性關系和機械研究。報告研究良好反應的新催化劑的工作必須將報告的結果與最新技術結合起來，以證明其影響和進步。在道爾頓學報中，未與現有催化劑進行適當比較而在現場生成不明確物種和報告催化數據表的研究將不予考慮。生物無機和藥用無機化學：我們歡迎金屬酶模型化合物和生物活性無機化合物的研究，包括它們的合成、表征和應用研究報告。只有當它們與所涉及的金屬或類金屬元素的特定性質明確相關，并且顯著加深了我們對無機化學的理解時，才鼓勵對金屬酶的光譜或計算工作，或對無機化合物的純生化、生物或生物醫學研究。這同樣適用于與生物相關金屬離子的傳感和可視化相關的論文。這類工作預計將重點放在無機方面，必須完全描述所涉及的無機化合物。理論和計算研究：我們歡迎報告反應性、選擇性、鍵合或結構的新模型或新計算方法的研究，這些模型與后續實驗的設計相關。從報告的理論工作的結果中得出的可測試預測的描述最清楚地證明了這一點；這些預測的測試可以包含在描述預測的同一篇論文中。僅僅復制實驗數據的計算研究通常不適合道爾頓交易。