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Work from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Meeting 2018 In this issue, Organic Process Research & Development is publishing a series of papers from among a larger number that were presented at the 27th meeting of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS), which was held in San Diego, California, in April 2018. The Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (http://www.orcs.org) seeks to advance practical applications of catalysis for making organic compounds by fostering discussions, providing opportunities for members to present their work, and facilitating dissemination of scientific knowledge. ORCS organizes a biennial meeting in order to promote and champion catalysis as a means to intensify and improve the sustainability, robustness, and safety of chemical processes used in industry, since catalysis is vital for enabling a wide range of industrial organic processes. Recognizing this, ORCS has been active since 1966 to bring together researchers from industry, academia, and national laboratories to discuss the latest advances in catalysis of organic transformations. ORCS has long been unique for its nearly equal number of attendees from academia and industry, demonstrating that organic reactions provide fertile ground for both fundamental insights and major commercial importance. In addition, in contrast to many meetings, ORCS welcomes discussions on both heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. I hope that you find these papers from the 27th meeting to be useful and informative. The submission of papers was optional for the conference presenters, but the papers published in OPR&D are important examples of work being carried out in this field. Of special note are papers from among those presenters who received awards at the 27th ORCS meeting. Dr. Raghunath V. Chaudhari received the biennial Murray Raney Award sponsored by W. R. Grace & Co to recognize the use of base-metal catalysis. He presented on a wide range of base-metal-catalyzed reactions while emphasizing oxidation reactions. Huw M. L. Davies received the biennial Paul N. Rylander Award sponsored by BASF to recognize industrially relevant catalysis, and he presented on activation of C−H bonds. In 2017, a new award, the Robert Augustine Award, was inaugurated to recognize achievements made early in a career. Ive Hermans was the inaugural recipient of this award, which is sponsored by ACS Journals, and he spoke on oxidative dehydrogenation using boron nitrides. Yuriý Román, who received the 2018 Robert Augustine Award, spoke on the use of microporous catalysts. Other papers in the special issue describe topics including cost estimation of new catalysts, supported catalysis, and electrochemical and photochemical catalysis. On behalf of the ORCS Executive Committee, I thank OPR&D for conducting professional and rigorous peer review of the submitted papers and compiling them into a special issue. The papers themselves report on key advances that will affect specific areas of research, while the special issue provides a modern and more easily accessible form for continuing the ORCS tradition of publishing the proceedings of each meeting. Moreover, the association of ORCS with OPR&D is a natural one, given that this journal and ORCS share common © 2018 American Chemical Society
audiences and goals. I look forward to the 28th meeting of the ORCS in March 2020 and invite those interested in catalysis, sustainability, and process intensification to mark your calendars and join us in Jacksonville, Florida!
Chuck Orella
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Chemical Engineering Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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Special Issue: Work from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Meeting 2018 Published: December 21, 2018 1579
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.8b00390 Org. Process Res. Dev. 2018, 22, 1579−1579
