Associate Editors Past and Present: A Warm Welcome to Professor

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Associate Editors Past and Present: A Warm Welcome to Professor Daniel J. Mindiola, and Heartfelt Thanks to Professor Tobin J. Marks

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arlier this month, readers encountered a new name on the masthead.1 Effective April 1, Professor Daniel José Mindiola of the University of Pennsylvania (Figure 1) became the 11th Associate Editor of Organometallics. His predecessors and new editorial colleaguesa very distinguished groupcan be found in Table 1. Nearly all readers should be familiar with our new team member. Dan has published more than 25 of his 120+ papers in this journal and has been active in a variety of capacities with the ACS and RSC. He is well-known for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in our field and exemplifies the high standards and analytical abilities sought in journal editors.

Figure 2. A view of “Salto Angel” in Canaima, which is better known as “Angel Falls”, located in Prof. Mindiola’s home country. Photo by Vadim Petrakov/Shutterstock.com.

Cummins in 2000 and then moved to the University of Chicago, where he was an NIH and Ford postdoctoral associate in the group of the late Prof. Greg Hillhouse. He began his independent research career at Indiana University in 2002 and in 2013 moved to Penn as the Presidential Professor of Chemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences. Along the way, Dan has received numerous honors such as a Presidential Early Career Award and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation, a New Faculty Award and a Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Fresenius Award from the American Chemical Society (Phi Lambda Upsilon), the Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and a Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. Dan’s research is centered on the synthesis and reactivity of unsaturated metal complexes having metal−ligand multiple bonds. Most of his work involves the use of 3d metals, specifically early transition metals, in small-molecule activation. Some noteworthy transformations that he has developed include the activation and dehydrogenation of volatile alkanes (C1−C8) by transient titanium alkylidynes,2−4 as well as the ring opening and denitrogenation of pyridines and other N-heterocycles.5−7 Earlier this month, readers may have also noticed a very familiar name missing from the masthead. Professor Tobin J. Marks has, after 28 years of selfless service, stepped down as

Figure 1. The 11th Associate Editor of Organometallics, Prof. Daniel J. Mindiola. Photo by Daniel Mindiola.

Dan is a native of Venezuela (Figure 2) and moved to Michigan in 1989, where he completed high school. Following undergraduate studies at Michigan State University and research with Prof. Kim Dunbar, he began graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Kit Table 1. Past and Present Associate Editors of Organometallics name

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Richard R. Schrock Tobin J. Marks Lanny S. Liebeskind Maurice S. Brookhart Kenton H. Whitmire Dwight A. Sweigart Manfred Bochmann Dennis L. Lichtenberger François P. Gabbaı̈ Deryn E. Fogg Daniel J. Mindiola

1982−1989 1986−2014 1989−present 1990−1996 1996−2007 1997−2010 2006−present 2008−present 2011−present 2013−present 2014−present

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Associate Editor of Organometallics. Tobin’s leadership in the field is of course well-known to everyone. He joined our team in 1986, four years after Organometallics was founded by Professor Dietmar Seyferth, making him the longest serving Associate Editor to date and someone who has played a key role in the tremendous growth of the journal over the years. His perspective, wisdom, and counsel will be sorely missed. Please join the current Associate EditorsManfred Bochmann, Deryn E. Fogg, François P. Gabbaı̈, Dennis J. Lichtenberger, Lanny S. Liebeskindand myself in welcoming Professor Daniel J. Mindiola to our team and expressing our heartfelt thanks to Professor Tobin J. Marks for his years of dedicated service. All of us wish Tobin the best of success in his future endeavors and look forward to a stimulating, enjoyable, and long-lasting relationship with Dan.

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John A. Gladysz, Editor in Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.

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(1) Previous Editor’s Page involving an Editorial addition: Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 2875. (2) Flores, J. A.; Cavaliere, V. N.; Buck, D.; Chen, G.; Crestani, M. G.; Pinter, B.; Baik, M.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 1457− 1462. (3) Cavaliere, V. N.; Crestani, M. G.; Pinter, B.; Chen, C.-H.; Pink, M.; Baik, M.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 10700− 10703. (4) Crestani, M. G.; Hickey, A.; Gao, X.; Pinter, B.; Cavaliere, V. N.; Ito, J.-I.; Chen, C.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 14754−14767. (5) Bailey, B. C.; Fan, H.; Huffman, J. C.; Baik, M.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 6798−6799. (6) Fout, A. R.; Bailey, B. C.; Tomaszewski, J.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12640−12641. (7) Fout, A. R.; Bailey, B. C.; Buck, D.; Fan, H.; Huffman, J. C.; Baik, M.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. Organometallics 2010, 29, 5409−5422.

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