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Editorial: A New Look, Some New Faces, and Continuing the Tradition of Excellence the journal reflect the vibrancy of the field, and we hope the new look creates such sentiment. Our editorial team is an admixture of continuing members as well as some new faces (Figure 1). One goal is to reflect the global enterprise of organometallic chemistry. Veteran Associate Editors Francois Gabbaı̈ (Texas A&M), Daniel Mindiola (University of Pennsylvania), and Deryn Fogg (University of Ottawa) will continue their service to the journal. Please join me in welcoming three new Associate Editors who not only expand our global presence but also bring a range of scientific expertise to Organometallics. Karsten Meyer (Friedrich-Alexander University ErlangenNürnberg): Karsten earned his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, studying the molecular and electronic structures of iron nitrido complexes. Following a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) postdoctoral appointment with Christopher (Kit) Cummins at MIT, Karsten joined the faculty at University of CaliforniaSan Diego. While there, he launched a vibrant program in organometallic and coordination chemistry of uranium and first-row transition-metal ions. His work integrates synthesis, spectroscopy and theory and interfaces with bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, and small-molecule activation. He returned to Germany in January 2006, where he currently serves as the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry in Erlangen. Karsten’s most recent contribution to Organometallics3 is a collaborative effort with Professors Gregory Hillhouse and Associate Editor Daniel Mindiola on the insertion chemistry of N2O into titanium and zirconium metallocyclopropene complexes. Laurel Schafer (University of British Columbia): Laurel earned her Ph.D. from the University of Victoria with David Berg followed by an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship with T. Don Tilley at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, where she worked on zirconocene chemistry. She then began her independent career at the University of British Columbia in 2001 and currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development. Her research is focused on early-transition-metal catalysts for the synthesis of amines, heterocycles, and biodegradable polymers. Laurel’s most recent contribution to Organometallics4 is with Professor Rhett Kempe and describes 2aminopyridinate titanium complexes for catalytic hydroamination chemistry. Shu-Li You (State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC)): Professor Shu-Li You is the first Associate Editor of Organometallics based in Asia. Shu-Li earned his Ph.D. from SIOC in 2001 studying the application of planar chiral ligands in asymmetric catalysis with Professor Li-Xin Dai. He then moved to the Scripps Research Institute for a postdoctoral appointment with Professor Jeffery Kelly, which was followed by an appointment as a principal investigator at the Genomics Institute
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he new year brings a refreshed look to Organometallics. After five years of dedicated leadership to the journal, Professor John Gladysz has stepped down as Editor-in-Chief. I wish to begin by thanking John for his dedicated service to Organometallics and wish him all of the best in the future. Our gratitude also extends to Professors Lanny Liebeskind and Dennis Lichtenberger, who have also ended their editorial tenures with the journal. Manfred Bochmann will continue with Organometallics until March 31, 2015, and continue to oversee the publication of the Mike Lappert Memorial Issue. To the entire team, our pages remain a welcome destination for their outstanding contributions to organometallic chemistry. I also wish to acknowledge Dietmar Seyferth’s legendary service to the journal and establishing Organometallics as the leading publication in our field. One of my primary goals as Editor-inChief of Organometallics is to stay true to the strong tradition of scholarship that is synonymous with the journal. Organometallic chemistry continues to be an exciting field. While now a well-recognized subdiscipline of chemistry, it remains a driver of innovation and transformation within the scientific community. The chemistry of the metal−carbon bond, broadly defined, remains the centerpiece of many burgeoning areas such as asymmetric catalysis, molecular structure, maingroup chemistry, materials chemistry, nanoscience, and biomedical chemistry, just to name a few. As a journal, Organometallics seeks to capture the best of these fields and serve as a nucleation point for authors, readers, students, and reviewers to find the best science each of these areas has to offer. As we remain loyal to the core principles of rigor and excellence that have come to be associated with Organometallics, we will also be mindful to broaden our reach and be sure to capture the best of all of the areas touched by our field. Organometallics has also been a special publication in my career. My first peer-reviewed publication was in Organometallics,1 and I remember feeling the excitement as the chemistry transformed from the vacuum lines of the Bercaw laboratory to the pages of the journal. My first independent publication, coincidently also on zirconium hydride chemistry, also graced the pages of Organometallics.2 In both instances, the journal made our work visible and communicated it to the appropriate readership. I believe Organometallics remains the “go to” journal for our field and hope to see many other graduate students and early career academics honor us with their first submissions to ACS Publications. Moving forward, we seek to coordinate with peer journals such as ACS Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Letters, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry to capture and publish the best science and to continue to have ACS Publications be the place to find outstanding chemistry. Beginning in this issue, Organometallics has a refreshed cover. We will continue to highlight outstanding work in each issue with a selection of high-quality, author-generated cover art. The new look allows more of the author-based artwork to define the cover and also includes a new masthead that has variable color schemes to accentuate the author-supplied images. It is my goal to have © 2015 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/om5012984 Organometallics 2015, 34, 1−2
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Figure 1. Current editorial team for Organometallics. Front row (left to right): Shu-Li You, Laurel Schafer, François Gabbaı̈. Back row (left to right): Daniel Mindiola, Karsten Meyer, Paul Chirik, Deryn Fogg. Photo credit: Tamara Hanna.
identified with the hashtag #hiddenOMgems. If you have suggestions for Organometallics papers that you believe are hidden gems or favorite papers you use in teaching our discipline, please let us know via Twitter or email (
[email protected]. org). This is just a small sampling of some of the new ideas coming to Organometallics in 2015. Future editorials will focus on other updates and initiatives impacting various aspects of the journal. In the end, a great journal is not about multimedia, social interactions, or cover art. First and foremost, Organometallics will be about great content, seeking interdisciplinary work that highlights the importance of the metal−carbon bond in synthesis, pharmaceuticals, energy-related research, and beyond. The field of organometallic chemistry is alive and well and, in my opinion, has never been stronger or more diverse. We welcome submission of your very best work, thank you in advance for insightful critical reviewing, and look forward to an innovative 2015 and beyond.
of the Novartis Research Foundation. In 2006, he returned to SIOC and launched a diverse research program in asymmetric catalysis, synthetic methods, and medicinal chemistry. Shu-Li’s most recent contribution to Organometallics5 reported the oxidative arylation of ferrocene derivatives in the presence of catalytic palladium acetate. Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution since the publication of the first issue of Organometallics in 1982. One of the key innovations has been the way authors, readers, and reviewers interact with the journal. For my first two Organometallics manuscripts mentioned above, everything was done on paperalthough we did have computers, albeit slow ones! One of my immediate goals for Organometallics is to enhance the way authors, reviewers, and readers interact with the journal. It is clear that the younger and future generations of organometallic chemists receive their information much differently than when I was a graduate student or a newly minted assistant professor. While some of us may wax nostalgic for the days where we rushed to our mailboxes anxiously looking for the famous blue-covered journal, readers today expect more real-time interfacing with their scientific content. To better engage the reader, we are working to enhance both our web and media presence. In the coming months, look to the Web site as we add dimensionality and seek to improve our engagement with the community. We will also bring social media to the Organometallics experience. We are doing this not only to deliver content but also as the great Princetonian and 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson said, “I not only use all of the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.”6 We hope to use Twitter as a medium where readers, authors, and editors can interact and bring our community, through the journal, together. Our Twitter account will be @Orgmet_ACS and will launch in early 2015. Please follow us! This is by all means an experiment and we welcome ideas from our readership how best to use this new platform. We will begin participating in “Throwback Thursdays” where wonderful papers from the archives of Organometallics will be “dusted off” and highlighted again. I hope to receive commentary from authors to provide some historical context of the work or perhaps their insights on how the chemistry has evolved or withstood the test of time. These manuscripts will be
Paul J. Chirik, Editor-in-Chief
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Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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(1) Chirik, P. J.; Day, M. W.; Bercaw, J. E. Organometallics 1999, 18, 1873−1881. (2) Pool, J. A.; Bradley, C. A.; Chirik, P. J. Organometallics 2002, 21, 1271−1277. (3) Mindiola, D. J.; Watson, L. A.; Meyer, K.; Mindiola, D. J. Organometallics 201433, 2760−2769. (4) Chong, E.; Qayyum, S.; Schafer, L. L.; Kempe, R. Organometallics 2013, 32, 1858−1865. (5) Xia, J.-B.; You, S.-L. Organometallics 2007, 26, 4869−4871. (6) The Independent, Vol. 77, Monday March 30, 1914, or “How it Feels to be President”, Speech to the National Press Club, March 20, 1914.
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