The journal was established as the "Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical" in 1966. In 1972, the journal was divided into three separate journals: "Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions" (covering inorganic and organometallic chemistry), "Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 1: Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases", and "Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2: Molecular and Chemical Physics". The "Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions" was renamed in 2003 to "Dalton Transactions". In January 2000, "Acta Chemica Scandinavica" was absorbed.