Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Inorganics 2019 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2019 in Inorganics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers were chosen, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Duncan H. Gregory. 

Halogen Bonding: A Halogen-Centered Noncovalent Interaction Yet to Be Understood
By Pradeep R. Varadwaj, Arpita Varadwaj and Helder M. Marques
Inorganics 2019, 7(3), 40 

Designing Ruthenium Anticancer Drugs: What Have We Learnt from the Key Drug Candidates?
By James P. C. Coverdale, Thaisa Laroiya-McCarron and Isolda Romero-Canelón
Inorganics 2019, 7(3), 31

The authors will receive an award of an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer-review procedure, and a certificate. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Inorganics and the wider scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners. 

Kind regards,
Inorganics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Inorganics Best Paper Award. One review paper and two research articles published between 1 January and 31 December 2018 were selected by the Evaluation Committee according to their originality and significance as well as citations and download rates in 2019 (Web of Science). The award recipients will each receive a certificate and a quota of publishing a paper in Inorganics with all publication fees waived. The winners are listed as follows:

Review
Aghazada, S.; Nazeeruddin, M.K. Ruthenium Complexes as Sensitizers in DyeSensitized Solar Cells. Inorganics 2018, 6, 52. Available online: https://www. mdpi.com/2304-6740/6/2/52

Articles:
Porzelt, A.; Schweizer, J.I.; Baierl, R.; Altmann, P.J.; Holthausen, M.C.; Inoue, S. S–H Bond Activation in Hydrogen Sulfide by NHC-Stabilized Silyliumylidene Ions. Inorganics 2018, 6, 54. Available online: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/2304-6740/6/2/54

Klose, M.H.M.; Theiner, S.; Varbanov, H.P.; Hoefer, D.; Pichler, V.; Galanski, M.; Meier-Menches, S.M.; Keppler, B.K. Development and Validation of Liquid Chromatography-Based Methods to Assess the Lipophilicity of Cytotoxic Platinum(IV) Complexes. Inorganics 2018, 6, 130. Available online: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/2304-6740/6/4/130

We wish to congratulate all the authors and thank them for having chosen Inorganics to publish their work.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Inorganics Travel Award. This award was granted to Marta Falcone, a PhD student in Professor Marinella Mazzanti’s group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Ms. Falcone is planning to present her work “Small Molecule Activation at Multimetallic Uranium Nitrides” at the Gordon Inorganic Chemistry Conference “Innovative Advancements and Technical Challenges that Span the Periodic Table”. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

The final decision was extremely difficult to make given the extraordinary number of high quality applications that were received. We would particularly like to thank all the applicants for their submissions and congratulate Ms. Falcone on her success.

Editor-in-Chief,
Prof. Dr. Duncan H. Gregory

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Inorganics Travel Award. This award was granted to Daniel Franz, a postdoc researcher in Professor Shigeyoshi Inoue’s group at the Technical University of Munich.
Dr. Franz’s research interests focus on the isolation of low-coordinate and electron deficient main group metal complexes, as well as molecular higher-coordinate metal hydrides. He is planning to present his work “Coordination chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic imino complexes of boron and silicon” at the International Conference on Phosphorus, Boron and Silicon—PBSI 2017. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.
The final decision was extremely difficult to make given the extraordinary number of high quality applications that were received. We would particularly like to thank all the applicants for their submissions and congratulate Dr. Franz on his success.