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Award-Winning Organometallic Chemistry:1 The 2012 RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award
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his issue is the second to spotlight a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Award recipient,2 namely Professor Geoffrey Cloke of the University of Sussex, who was honored with the year 2012 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award.3 This is conferred biennially by the Dalton Division of the RSC for outstanding contributions to pure and applied research in the field of organometallic chemistry. A related prize, the Organometallic Chemistry Award, is conferred by the Organic Division in alternate years.4 Nearly all of the recipients of these awards have close relationships with this journal. Professor Cloke has published some 24 papers in Organometallics and served on the Advisory Board from 2010 to 2012. He was formally presented with his prize at an Awards Symposium held on July 4, 2013, at the conclusion of the 20th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry at St. Andrews, Scotland.5 He received, in addition to the usual certificate, a medal and £2000. Professor Cloke’s laudatio reads “for his extensive and many faceted contributions to inorganic and organotransition metal chemistry”. Small molecule activation, f-element complexes, pentalenes and related ligands, and functionalizations by reductive transformations have also featured prominently in his research. Professor Cloke has received a host of other recognitions from the RSC and Royal Society, as described in the biographical sketch given in the award article on the following pages. He complements his academic pursuits with regular outdoor treks, often with his family as depicted in Figure 1. Geoff, we salute your varied, career-long achievements that led to this award. You have consistently challenged the accepted limits of chemical bonding, opening up new chemistry regimes, and thereby inspiring others to attempt the same. We appreciate your ongoing scientific leadership and look forward
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(1) Previous Editor’s Page in this series: Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 5007. (2) Earlier article: Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 941. (3) http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/ SirGeoffreyWilkinsonAward/ (4) http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/ OrganometallicChemistryAward/. (5) http://www.eucomcxx.com.
Figure 1. Professor Geoffrey Cloke (right) with his wife Siobhan (left) and son Tom (center) at Land End, Cornwall (United Kingdom). Photo by Geoffrey Cloke, United Kingdom. © 2013 American Chemical Society
John A. Gladysz, Editor in Chief
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