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Organometallics in 2018
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appy New Year and welcome to 2018! Each January, we reflect on the past year while simultaneously looking forward, often ambitiously, to the new. Last year was terrific for organometallic chemistry and, likewise, Organometallics. We launched several initiatives to capture this excitement, adapt to the evolving scientific publishing landscape, and innovate the journal to capture the best chemistry in our field. I want to begin by again congratulating UC Berkeley Professor Robert Bergman on his receipt of the 2017 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. This prestigious honor bestowed by the Wolf Foundation in Israel recognizes Bob’s groundbreaking contributions to C−H activation, a field that has exploded as one of the most active and vibrant in organic synthesis. Organometallics published a Virtual Issue in honor of Bob to celebrate this honor and his many contributions to the journal. The issue features manuscripts from his many collaborators and student and postdoctoral co-workers, spanning a range of topics in our field. In 2017, Organometallics also celebrated our second Distinguished Author Lecturer, Professor Alexander Miller from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. We recognized his achievements with symposia in both the Organic and Inorganic Divisions at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. For additional background on Alex’s award-winning contribution, as well as his research program and career path, see the ACS Axial post (http://axial.acs.org/2017/03/23/organometallics-award). The national meeting symposia not only featured a diverse array of world-class organometallic chemists (Brad Carrow, Clark Landis, Karen Goldberg, Melanie Sanford, Laurel Schafer, Felix “Phil” Castellano, and Ian Tonks) but also marked the debut of Orin Miller, Alex’s son, at a scientific conference.
UNC’s Alex Miller is presented the 2017 Organometallics Distinguished Author Lecturer Award by Editor-in-Chief Paul Chirik (left) and poses with his family, Professor Jillian Dempsey (UNC) and Oren (right). Photo credits: Brad Carrow (left) and Paul Chirik (right). This past year, we also thought about the role of the communication format in scientific publishing. As outlined in an editorial (DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00795), Organometallics now encourages submission of “flash communications,” which are shorter and more focused manuscripts that warrant rapid publication. While not a formally designated manuscript type in the ACS Paragon Plus work-flow environment, we hope the community will embrace the concept. Four-page communications will continue to be accepted at Organometallics. We also enhanced the way we handle the submission of crystallographic data to streamline the process for both authors and reviewers. Data deposition with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is required prior to submission (http://axial. acs.org/2017/04/10/cif-workflow), which ensures a single version of record, minimizes errors, and provides easier access to the data. Having had this work flow in place for the past eight months, I am pleased to report that the transition has been smooth. Organometallics remains focused on being an international journal, a feature highlighted in last year’s annual editorial (DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00937). To reflect our global pres-
A 2017 Virtual Issue celebrated Professor Robert Bergman’s 2017 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
At the journal, 2017 witnessed several important changes, milestones, and initiatives. Open access continues to be an important part of the scientific publishing landscape. To complement Editor’s Choice and Author’s Choice options, Organometallics also welcomes submissions that have appeared on preprint servers. From our “Guidelines to Authors”: “Authors are allowed to deposit an initial draft of their manuscript in a preprint service such as ChemRxiv, arXiv, bioRxiv, or the applicable repository for their discipline prior to submission.” −Organometallics “Guidelines to Authors”
The editorial team believes that preprint servers while perhaps not for all authors will become an important component of the publishing process and that the journal should evolve with the needs of authors. © XXXX American Chemical Society
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ence, we have added five new world-class organometallic chemists to our Editorial Advisory Board. Please join me in welcoming to our team Christophe Darcel (Université Rennes 1), Sundargopal Ghosh (ITT Bombay), Pakkirisamy Thilagar (IISc, Bangalore), Haiping Xia (Xiamen University), and Shabana Kahn (IISER Pune). I look forward to working with them and hearing their perspectives to improve the journal and improve our global reach. I am also pleased to announce that Organometallics has a new managing editor, Steve Ritter. Many readers will recognize Steve’s name due to his years of outstanding reporting at Chemical and Engineering News. We look forward to having Steve and his substantial publishing experience with our team. I also thank him for a few writing tips with this Editorial and his devotion to the Oxford comma. Content with a pedagogical emphasis also remained a focus at Organometallics. This past year, we published, in collaboration with a team from the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC), a Virtual Issue entitled “Papers for Pedagogy”. This collection highlighting content from Organometallics and the ACS journals portfolio will be useful to students and instructors taking and teaching organometallic chemistry courses. Special thanks go to Professor Chip Nataro of Lafayette College for conceiving and leading this effort (https://www. ionicviper.org/blog-entry/papers-pedagogy). Two Tutorials also appeared this past year, highlighting the breadth of organometallic chemistry. The first focused on olefin metathesis, a topic well-known to our readers and one that continues to be an important and high-impact area in our field. The Tutorial authored by Professors Christophe Copéret (ETHZurich) and Richard Schrock (MIT, 2005 Nobel Laureate) focused on high oxidation state metal−carbon double bonds both in solution and in the solid state or on a solid support (DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00825). I anticipate this Tutorial will be a valuable resource for catalyst development as well as for students and instructors interested in this important field. This landmark Tutorial accompanied a Virtual Issue on olefin metathesis, led by our Associate Editor and leader in the field Professor Deryn Fogg (University of Ottawa; DOI: 10.1021/ acs.organomet.7b00325). This Virtual Issue, published in collaboration with the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, and Organic Letters, demonstrates the continued breadth and vibrancy of this field. Professor Valentine Ananikov (Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences), well-known to our readers as a prolific author in Organometallics and our 2016 Distinguished Author Lecturer, also contributed a Tutorial in 2017 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00605), along with his coauthor Ksenia Egorova. The Tutorial is provocative and focuses on an often-overlooked aspect of organometallic chemistry, namely the toxicity of metal compounds. One of our most downloaded papers in 2017, this Author’s Choice openaccess article not only explored how the identity of various metals impacts toxicity but also discussed properties of interest to organometallic chemists: structure, oxidation state, coordination number, and types of ligands. As chemists continue to emphasize environmental stewardship and laboratory safety, this Tutorial will prove to be a valuable resource. Be on the lookout in 2018 for more Tutorials in various aspects of organometallic chemistry. In 2017, we also published three Special Issues for which we solicited content from leaders in topical areas of organometallic chemistry. Associate Editor Daniel Mindiola (U Penn) started the year by organizing an issue on the continually exploding area of C−H functionalization. Professor Eric Rivard (University of
Recent Virtual Issues and Tutorials at Organometallics that focused on pedagogical content.
Cover art from Special Issues published in Organometallics in 2017. Alberta) and Associate Editor François Gabbai ̈ (Texas A&M) produced a special issue on exciting applications of main group compounds with interesting optoelectronic properties. I think many of these papers will surprise readers on the broad and varied application of organometallic compounds. Finally, Professors Suzanne Bart (Purdue) and Eric Schelter (U Penn) organized a vibrant and timely special issue on the organometallic chemistry of the lanthanides and actinides (DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00829). I will conclude by thanking the members of the editorial team, ACS production staff, and most importantly the authors and reviewers who help ensure we publish the best chemistry possible. We also thank you, our readers, and look forward to an exciting 2018!
Paul J. Chirik
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Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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