EDITORIAL pubs.acs.org/Organometallics
Award-Winning Organometallic Chemistry: the Alfred-StockGed€achtnispreis of the GDCh s noted a few months ago,1 Organometallics solicits articles from organometallic chemists who have earned awards from international bodies and chemical societies worldwide. The award need not be restricted to organometallic chemistry, but the laudatio for the recipient should recognize achievements in organometallic chemistry. In September of 2010, Prof. Dr. Matthias Driess of the Technische Universit€at Berlin was awarded the Alfred-StockGed€achtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), or the German Chemical Society. This prize has been conferred annually since 1950 for outstanding experimental work in the area of inorganic chemistry.2 Not surprisingly, many of the awards recognize advances in organometallic chemistry. Two of the last three recipients are from outside of Germany, indicating significant international character. The award is sponsored by a consortium of chemical concerns, and recipients receive a gold medal with a diameter of 5 cm. One face features the profile of Alfred Stock, a ground-breaking inorganic chemist; the other features the alchemical symbols for boron, mercury, and silicon, three elements that featured prominently in Stock’s research. The laudatio for Professor Driess notes his many creative and innovative contributions to main-group chemistry, especially highly reactive but isolable silylene compounds, to transitionmetal coordination chemistry (particularly superoxides and supersulfides), and to novel nanoscale materials. A review in which he describes some of these achievements begins on the following page. A biographical sketch can be found within the article. A heart-felt klink of the beer mugs and “zum Wohl” from all of us, Matthias! We look forward to many more scientific triumphs in the years to come.
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John A. Gladysz Editor in Chief
’ REFERENCES (1) Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2011, 30, 357. (2) http://www.gdch.de/gdch/eps/preise/stock.htm
Published: March 04, 2011 r 2011 American Chemical Society
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