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The Journal of Organometallic Chemistry has a long-standing tradition
for publishing original papers dealing with theoretical aspects, structural chemistry, synthesis, physical and chemical properties including
reaction mechanisms, and practical applications of organometallic compounds.
Because of the growing importance of organometallic complexes
in bioorganometallic chemistry and material sciences, on one hand, and of heavier main group elements in organometallic chemistry, on
the other hand, the scope of the Journal has been enlarged, and work covering these fields is also considered.
Besides original papers,
the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry publishes review articles, communications and notes.
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Types of contributions • Original papers not previously published •
Communications • Notes • Subject reviews • Book reviews
Submission of
contributions Authors should
submit four copies
of their manuscripts, including graphical abstract, and one complete set of original illustrations and two
copies to one of the
Regional Editors. For the final version in addition to the original and three copies, authors should submit
an electronic version of their manuscript on disk. Subject Reviews are published upon invitation by the Subject Reviews
Editors.
Regional Editors Dr. Richard D. Adams Regional Editor, JOMC Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University
of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA Fax: +1 (803) 777 6781
E-mail: Adams@mail.chem.sc.edu
Dr Guy Bertrand Université Paul Sabatier Hétérochimie
Fondamentale et Appliquée 118 route de Narbonne 31026 Toulouse Cedex 04 France Fax: ++33 561 55 8204 E-mail: gbertran@chimie.ups-tlse.fr
Professor I. Manners School of Chemistry University of Bristol Bristol BS8
1TS UK Fax: +44 (0)117 929 0509 E-mail: Ian.Manners@bristol.ac.uk
Professor K. Tatsumi Research Centre
for Materials Science Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8602, Japan Fax: +81-774-38-3186 E-mail:i45100a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject Review
Editor
Professor G. van Koten Utrecht University Dept.
of Metal-Mediated Synthesis Transitorium
3, Padualaan 8 NL-3584 CH
Utrecht The Netherlands Fax: +31 (30) 52 3615
Book ReviewsEditor
Contributions
are accepted on the understanding that the authors have obtained the necessary authority for publication. Submission of an article must
be accompanied by a statement that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Upon
acceptance of an article by the Journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This
transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Authors are reminded that delays in publication may occur if
the instructions for submission and disk and manuscript preparation are not strictly followed. Authors are strongly recommended to submit
disks to aid rapid processing. To facilitate communication, authors are requested to provide their current e-mail address, phone and
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•The disk must always be accompanied by a hard-copy version of the article, and
the content of the two must be identical.
•The disk text must be the same as that of the final refereed, revised manuscript.
•Disks
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former.
•The article must be saved in the native format of the word processor used, e.g. WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, etc.
•Although
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•Please do not send ASCII files as relevant data may be lost.
•There
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a page layout with figures), as most formatting instructions will be removed upon processing.
•Leave a blank line between each
paragraph and between each entry in the list of bibliographic references.
•Tables should preferably be placed in the same electronic
file as the text. Authors should consult a recent issue of the Journal for table layout.
Graphics General - Information
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number of technical difficulties to overcome, we are processing graphic files in a growing number of cases. Both scanned and computer-generated
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copy in all cases. Since we cannot a priori guarantee the usability of your graphic file(s), hard copies of all illustrations should
accompany the accepted printout of the manuscript in all cases. One set should be in a publishable condition. Disks: Files
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Guidelines for Crystallographic Data
1.
Policy. The Journal will accept for publication papers containing or comprising the results of crystal structure determinations which
will be of interest to organometallic, inorganic or organic chemists. Papers reporting only crystallographic results must relate to work
of novelty or special significance to inorganic and organometallic chemistry which must be emphasised.
2. Submission of Papers. The
following procedures should be followed: a) Prior to the submission of the manuscript, the author(s) should deposit with the relevant
Data Centre the data corresponding to each structure to be reported in the intended publication. Data for metal organic structures, i.e.
those which contain organic carbon in any of the species present in the structure, (including metal carbonyls) should be sent to the
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) by e-mail (address: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk) preferably in CIF format. A checklist of data
items to be included in the deposition can be obtained from the CCDC Home Page on the Worldwide Web (http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/) or by
e-mail (to fileserv@ccdc.cam.ac.uk) with the one line message sendme checklist.
Data for inorganic compounds should be sent to Fachinformationszentium
Karlsruhe (FIZ) by e-mail (address: crysdata@FIZ-Karlsruhe.de), by FTP (please contact FIZ if you choose this option) or on disk. No
hard copy submissions will be accepted.
The Data Centres will provide, within a day or two of submission, deposition codes for each
data set, which should be quoted in suitable form in the manuscript submitted to the Journal. The deposited data will be accessed by
the Journal and checked as part of the refereeing process.
Add to publication: "Crystallographic data for the structural analysis has
been deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, CCDC No. xxxxxx for compound X.
Copies of this information may be obtained
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The Director CCDC 12 Union Road Cambridge, CB2 1EZ UK Fax. (int code) +44(1223)336-033 or Email:
deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk or www:http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk
b) When the paper is submitted to the Journal, the following guidelines should
be adhered to: • The Title should contain reference to the presence in the paper of X-ray crystallographic results. •The
Abstract should not contain crystal data, but should include a concise statement of the main features of the structural results. •The Experimental results must be presented in a concise format.
In general, authors should not include a detailed text description
of data collection, crystal structure solution and refinement, if these followed standard procedures and no difficulties were met. Reference
to a previous paper containing a more detailed experimental description can be given if relevant. However, if any parts of the structure
analysis were unusual, and affected the presentation and/or accuracy of the results, then these should be discussed. The following crystallographic
data should be given, all contained in a paragraph (if one structure reported) or Table (two or more structures).
i) Colour, habit
and size of crystals used, and behaviour of the compound under ambient conditions if not mentioned elsewhere in the paper.
ii) Chemical
Formula.
This should correspond to the complete chemical unit encompassing crystallographic symmetry (e.g. a centrosymmetric dimer
should be included in full form). The use of fractional coefficients (e.g. 0.5H2O) should be used only if the unit has partial occupancy
of its site. Formulae should be presented in a way that molecules, ionic fragments, solvate molecules etc. are separately identified.
iii)
Unit cell parameters with esd s and X-ray wavelength used.
iv) Crystal system, space group and number of complete chemical units (see
ii) per cell.
v) Type of diffractometer used and method of data collection; total number of data collected, excluding any intensity
controls, number unique Rint value (if relevant, number observed (with cut-off parameter) and completeness of data to suitable 2theta
or sin-theta/lambda limit; use or otherwise of absorption correction.
vi) Final results. Give values of R, Rw (and their definitions)
and number of parameters. Indicate form of refinement (F or F2) and treatment of hydrogen atoms.
Note that easily derived parameters
(F(000), density etc.) should not be given unless required in discussion of other data (e.g. number of solvent molecules, etc).
Discussion
of the Structure. This must include a clear, labelled diagram of the structure (molecule, complex ion or unit cell contents if the structure
is polymeric) and a list of relevant geometry parameters - interatomic distances, interbond angles, torsion angles etc. with error estimates.
Data for geometrically less important parts of the structure, such as ligand sub groups (phenyl rings, alkyl groups etc) should not be
given, unless these are the subject of particular discussion. Packing diagrams of crystal structures of molecular compounds should not
be given unless there are chemically important intermolecular interactions.
3. Supplementary Material.
If deposition numbers are
provided at the time of submission, it is not necessary to submit copies of the Supplementary Material with the manuscript if the above
procedures have been followed. However, authors are recommended to submit with the manuscript, as supplementary sheets, not for publication,
any further information which they feel may aid the refereeing process, particularly if any of the usual quality-of-structure indicators
point to problems in the analysis.
Manuscript preparation Language Papers will be published in English. Authors' manuscripts
must be consistent in style, spelling and syntax. Authors in Japan please note that information about how to have the English of your
paper checked, corrected and improved (before submission) is available from:
Elsevier K.K. 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu 1-chome
Building 4F Minato-ku,Tokyo 106-0044 Japan
Estimation
of length For a rough estimate of the final length of their printed article, authors should count 850 words per full two-column
page and four illustrations per page.
Keywords A maximum of six keywords should be indicated below the abstract to describe
the contents of the manuscript. Keywords should be selected, if appropriate, from the following classes: theoretical methods, experimental
methods, phenomena, materials, and applications. A recommended list of current keywords used in the Journal are published regularly.
This list may also be obtained from the Editor or publisher.
Graphical abstract
Please note that the contents lists of
the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry contain Graphical Abstracts: pictograms and synopses. The authors are therefore asked to provide
a drawing or reaction scheme (pictogram) illustrating their work and a synopsis of maximum 50 words. The pictogram should measure 55x50
mm for direct reproduction. If reduction is needed, please make sure that the illustration is still informative upon reduction.
References:
References to other papers should be consecutively numbered in the text and should be listed numerically at the end of the paper. Please
ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract
must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned
in the text. The references should be as complete as possible and be presented as follows:
For a book: T.A. Albright, J.K.
Burdett, M.-H. Whangbo, Orbital Interactions in Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1985.
For a paper in a journal: A.D. Becke, J. Chem.
Phys. 98 (1993) 5648?5652.
For a paper in a contributed volume: G. Frenking, T. Wagener, in: P.v.R. Schleyer (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Computational Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1998, pp. 3073?3084.
For an unpublished paper: Y. Nie, Ph.D. Thesis, Universita?t
Heidelberg, 2005.
Commercial products, including computer programs, are to be mentioned in the text of the manuscript and not
normally referenced. If required the reference should list the first author et al. only
the digital object identifier (DOI) may be used
to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document
by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing
a document, particularly "Articles in press", because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format
for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal Physics Letters B): doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
Colour illustrations Illustrations
can be printed in colour when they are judged by the Editor to be essential to the presentation. Generally, the publisher and author
will each bear part of the extra costs involved. The charge to be passed on to authors of articles containing colour figures is EUR 635.00
for the first page containing colour and EUR 318.00 for each additional page containing colour. Authors located in Europe or Japan will
be billed in Euros, while authors located outside Europe or Japan will be billed in US dollars.
Short Communications
Short
Communications submitted to the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry are important reports of unusual urgency or original advances in
organometallic chemistry for which rapid publication is justified. The manuscript should be restricted to 2500 words or the equivalent
space in illustrations and tables. An abstract and 4-6 keywords should be included.
Notes The Journal of Organometallic
Chemistry holds a section for short reports of completed investigations. These reports will be called Notes. They should not exceed 2500
words of text or 4 printed pages including schemes, figures and citations. Results and Discussion sections should be combined. Tables
of atomic positional parameters for structural analysis will not be published, and only one structural diagram will be permitted. Otherwise,
all criteria for the standard full report will apply to that of the Note.
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