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Award-Winning Organometallic Chemistry:1 The 2013 RSC Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship
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Professor Layfield is, like other recipients of this Fellowship,2 no stranger to these pages, and graces us this time with an insightful and well crafted reviewa clarion call, evenon organometallic molecular magnets, one of the major research themes in his laboratories. He is probably less well-known for an avocation dear to his heart, running, in which he sometimes engages competitively, as depicted in Figure 1. The undersigned speculates from his own experience that the endorphins thus generated have helped inspire a good part of the creativity evident in his research. Richard, you are clearly on the threshold of a career that will lead organometallic chemistry in many new directions in future years, and we offer our most enthusiastic congratulations on the occasion of your award.
n this issue, we turn the spotlight to Professor Richard Layfield of the University of Manchester, who is the recipient of the year 2013 Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).2 This Fellowship was inaugurated in 1984 and is conferred biennially for “research in organometallic chemistry or the co-ordination chemistry of transition metals”. It is restricted to candidates who are 36 years old or younger at the nomination deadline, and either work in, or are originally from, the UK or Republic of Ireland. Other RSC awards that recognize achievements in organometallic chemistry have been highlighted in previous issues.3,4
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John A. Gladysz, Editor in Chief REFERENCES
(1) Previous Editor’s Page in this series: Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 6851; 2014, 33, 437. (2) http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/ SirEdwardFranklandFellowship/Index.asp. (3) Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 941. (4) Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2013, 32, 5243. (5) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/news/events/ dalton2012.
Figure 1. Professor Richard Layfield nearing the finish line of the Berlin Marathon, September 25, 2011. Photo by a robotic camera, Berlin, Germany.
Professor Layfield will be formally presented with his prize at an Awards Symposium to be held on April 15−17, 2014, at a Dalton Division Meeting at the University of Warwick.5 He will receive, in addition to a framed certificate, a medal and £2000. Professor Layfield’s laudatio reads “For his contributions to organometallic chemistry, and in particular, his pioneering work on magnetic studies of organo-lanthanide complexes.” He has garnered several other honors from the RSC, as described in a biographical sketch located in his award article, which begins on the following page. © 2014 American Chemical Society
Published: March 10, 2014 1083
dx.doi.org/10.1021/om500163v | Organometallics 2014, 33, 1083−1083
