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The Year 2015 in Inorganic Chemistry organized one virtual issue on “Inorganic Chemistry Driving the Energy Sciences” (http://pubs.acs.org/page/vi/2015/ InorgChemEnergySci.html) that highlights how fundamental inorganic chemistry is advancing energy conversion technologies.1 Included in this collection are articles from Inorganic Chemistry and Journal of the American Chemical Society that describe recent breakthroughs leading to better photovoltaic cells, (photo)electrocatalysts for fuel production, CO2 utilization, batteries, and fuel cells. Articles published in Organometallics also are included in the second ACS Select Issue organized by Michael Fryzuk, “Ligand Design” (http://pubs.acs.org/page/vi/ Ligand-design.html). The design of new multidentate ligands has provided a creative outlet for many research groups to try to tailor metal complexes to engage in new reactivity patterns and new structural motifs.2 Associate Editor Janet R. Morrow arranged the third ACS Select Virtual Issue collection, which is on “Bioinorganic Chemistry” (http://pubs.acs.org/page/vi/bioinorganic-chemistry.html) and highlights the work of 17 emerging investigators (who have received their Ph.D.’s since 2004) published in Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Chemical Biology, and ACS Chemical Neuroscience. These investigators focused on the development of new inorganic complexes for diagnostics and medicine and tools for chemical biology and on the characterization of metalloproteins, enzymes, and their model complexes.3 I look forward to another ACS Select Virtual Issue in 2016 on “Photochemistry and Photophysics of Lanthanide Compounds” that is currently under construction by guest editor Ana de Bettencourt Dias. The third Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award, cosponsored by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, went to Daniel Gamelin
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s we enter 2016, it is time to celebrate another active year of great science published in the pages of Inorganic Chemistry. Putting each issue together is a team effort involving 11 outstanding Associate Editors, each of whom is a highly active researcher in the field, and numerous talented and hardworking staff located throughout the globe. Of course, the real heavy lifting is done by our authors and reviewers, whose work is directly responsible for the continuing excellence of the science that appears in the journal. Thank you, on behalf of the entire publishing team! In an upcoming issue, we feature the third in a set of Forums on “Small Molecule Activation: From Biological Principles to Energy Applications”, special collections of invited articles focused on central topics of great fundamental and societal importance that Associate Editor Franc Meyer and I introduced in 2015 (Figure 1). The first of the series, “Small Molecules Related to CarbonContaining Fuels” (http://pubs.acs.org/toc/inocaj/54/11), was led by guest editors Etsuko Fujita and Alan Goldman. Nicolai Lehnert and Jonas Peters served as guest editors for the second one, “Small Molecules Related to the Global Nitrogen Cycle” (http://pubs.acs.org/toc/inocaj/54/19). Guest editors Marcetta Darensbourg and Antoni Llobet have curated the final Forum on “Small Molecules Related to (Artificial) Photosynthesis”. These articles have introduced me to some fascinating new concepts and ideas, and I hope they will be equally inspirational to you. Future Forums planned for 2016 will focus on metal−organic frameworks for energy applications, new trends and applications for lanthanides, and the chemistry of perovskites. ACS Select Virtual Issues featured collections of Inorganic Chemistry articles three times in 2015. Curtis P. Berlinguette
Figure 1. Cover art for the issues featuring the Forums on Small Molecule Activation: From Biological Principles to Energy Applications. Published: January 4, 2016 © 2016 American Chemical Society
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Figure 2. Participants at the 2015 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Symposium. From left to right: Editor-in-Chief William Tolman, with speakers Daniel Nocera, Daniel Gamelin, and Pavle Radovanovic. Also speaking at the symposium but not shown: Moungi Bawendi, Jillian Dempsey, and Dylan Gary (from Brandi Cossairt’s group).
from the University of Washington for his broad, unique, and outstanding sustained contribution to the development of inorganic nanoscience. He received the award at a symposium at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston in August 2015, featuring terrific lectures by friends and colleagues (Figure 2). As I write this editorial, nominations for the fourth Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award are drawing to a close, and we look forward to sharing the details of the 2016 recipient soon. We continue to reach out to you, our readers, authors, and reviewers, through social media and personal interactions at conferences and meetings. In addition to tweeting every published article via @InorgChem, we launched the journal Facebook page in 2015 (https://www.facebook.com/ACSInorgChem/). This platform provides our community a chance to post and discuss anything related to inorganic chemistry, such as, for example, recent conferences and meetings, information about awards, and recently published articles in a series called “give a paper, take a paper”. Please visit! We do understand that our colleagues in China are unable to participate in this effort, and we are trying to find other social media tools to engage them soon. Our editors travel around the world to participate in many international meetings, and we welcome these opportunities to make new friends, visit with old ones, and talk about our science and the journal. Highlights in 2015 include a number of meetings in Asia, including the fifth Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Hong Kong (organized by Associate Editor Vivian Yam), the 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry in Beijing, China (keynote lectures by William Tolman and Associate Editor Frank Neese), and the 65th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry in Nara, Japan (lecture by Associate Editor Franc Meyer). Associate Editor Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou presented plenary lectures at the first International Conference on Microstructure and Properties of Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the 2015 International Conference on Nanospace Materials, Taipei, Taiwan. Associate Editor Janet Morrow received the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology distinguished lectureship award in 2015, which also entailed visits to UNIST and POSTECH. Finally, I must end on a sad note. We lost two giants in our field in late 2015, Malcolm Chisholm and Alan Davison (Figure 3). Malcolm passed away at the age of 70 on November 20, and
Figure 3. (left) Alan Davison and (right) Malcolm Chisholm.
Alan Davison died on November 14 at the age of 79. Both made huge research contributions that have had a lasting impact, and both positively influenced the lives of large numbers of students and colleagues. Malcolm published more than 140 articles in Inorganic Chemistry that have been cited more than 5000 times. His first publication appeared in 1971 [Cationic Acetylenic Platinum(II) Compounds and Their Derivatives. I. Alkoxycarbene Complexes],4 with the latest appearing in 2015 [Electronic and Spectroscopic Properties of Avobenzone Derivatives Attached to Ditungsten Quadruple Bonds].5 Alan published more than 60 articles in Inorganic Chemistry that have been cited >3500 times, with the first appearing in 19636 [The Preparation and Characterization of Four-Coordinate Complexes Related by Electron-Transfer Reactions] and the latest in 2002 [N-(2-Mercaptoethyl)picolylamine as a Diaminomonothiolate Ligand for the “fac-[Re(CO)3]+” Core].7 They will be missed. Thanks for reading and for contributing to the success of Inorganic Chemistry through your involvement as authors, reviewers, and social media participants.
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William B. Tolman, Editor-in-Chief
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(1) Berlinguette, C. P. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 3079−3083. (2) Fryzuk, M. D. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 9671−9674. (3) Morrow, J. A. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 11039−11042. (4) Clark, H. C.; Chisholm, M. H. Inorg. Chem. 1971, 10, 1711− 1716. (5) Chisholm, M. H.; Gustafson, T. L.; Kender, W. T.; Spilker, T. F.; Young, P. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 9438−9446. (6) Davison, A.; Edelstein, N.; Holm, R. H.; Maki, A. H. Inorg. Chem. 1963, 2, 1227−1232. (7) Kramer, D. J.; Davison, A.; Davis, W. M.; Jones, A. G. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 6181−6183.
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