Editorial pubs.acs.org/acscatalysis
Celebrating the 2016−2017 ACS Catalysis Lectureship Winners and Changes for the 2018 Award
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Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science has been posted [http://connect.acspubs.org/acscatalysiscfn2018], in which the changes in the award scope and the nomination deadline of November 1, 2017 should be noted. The 2018 Lectureship will be awarded to a researcher or team who has made significant achievements in the areas of biocatalysis and/or enzymology. In the following two years, the award will recognize researchers in heterogeneous catalysis (2019) and molecular catalysis (2020). As always, the award emphasizes contributions in the last seven years, rather than lifetime achievements over a longer period. The 2018 Lectureship award will be presented in a symposium celebrating the award winner(s) at the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts (August 19−23, 2018) sponsored by the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology. Questions regarding the ACS Catalysis Lectureship awards may be directed to
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he ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology hosted award sessions for the two most recent ACS Catalysis Lectureship recipients on Monday, August 21, 2017, during the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. Matthias Beller of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock, was honored for his role in the resurgence of iron catalysis. Bas de Bruin of the University of Amsterdam chaired the session, in which seven chemists from around the world (Figure 1A) presented their recent work, while commending Beller and his team’s contributions to catalysis. In a second session on the same day, the winner of the 2017 Lectureship, Paul Chirik of Princeton University, was recognized for his contributions using first-row transition-metal complexes, especially with those that employ “redox-active” ligands, to facilitate the use of Earth-abundant metals in catalyzing multielectron chemical transformations. Dan Mindiola (University of Pennsylvania) and Valerie Schmidt (University of California, San Diego) co-chaired the session that featured six researchers (Figure 1B), who presented their own recent work while also commenting on the collected contributions of the Chirik group to organometallic chemistry and catalysis. It is perhaps fitting that two of the global leaders in the development of first-row transition-metal complex catalysts were honored on the same day for their significant contributions to the advancement of catalysis. For the next stage of the collaboration between the journal, ACS Catalysis, and the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology, the organizations are making minor changes to the eligibility and focus of the Lectureship over the coming threeyear cycle. The call for nominations for the 2018 ACS Catalysis
Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief Georgia Institute of Technology
Rhea M. Williams, Managing Editor
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Christopher W. Jones: 0000-0003-3255-5791 Rhea M. Williams: 0000-0003-3240-1872 Notes
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Figure 1. (A) Participants in the ACS Washington, DC, session honoring Matthias Beller, the 2016 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science recipient. From left to right: Wolfgang Kroutil (University of Graz), John Hartwig (UC Berkeley), Christian Bruneau (Université de Rennes 1), Troels Skrydstrup (Aarhus University), Matthias Beller (Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock), Johannes De Vries (Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock), Axel Jacobi von Wangelin (University of Regensberg), Hansjörg Grützmacher (ETH Zurich), Bas de Bruin (University of Amsterdam). (B) Participants in the ACS Washington, DC, session honoring Paul Chirik, the 2017 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science recipient. From left to right: Milton Smith (Michigan State), Suzanne Bart (Purdue), Scott Miller (Yale), Paul Chirik (Princeton), John Groves (Princeton), Rebecca Ruck (Merck), Pete Wolczanski (Cornell). Published: October 6, 2017 © 2017 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03289 ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 7399−7399
