Editor-in-Chief, ACS Central Science
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Carolyn R. Bertozzi (born in 1966) is the Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical & Systems Biology at Stanford University, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H. Prof. Bertozzi is known for developing the field of biorthogonal chemistry, which enables chemical reactions to take place inside living systems without interfering with native biochemical processes, and developing innovative technologies that have opened new avenues for biological discovery and therapeutic development. Among her recognitions, she is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Awards of note include the Lemelson-MIT award for inventors, Whistler Award, Ernst Schering Prize, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award, Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society, and the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Prof. Bertozzi is the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACS Central Science, created in 2015 as an open access journal publishing cutting-edge research at the interface of chemistry and allied sciences.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of Proteome Research: Optimal Dissociation Methods Differ for N– and O-Glycopeptides DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00218
Biochemistry: A Sugar Cloak of Invisibility DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00170
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Engineering Orthogonal Polypeptide GalNAc-Transferase and UDP-Sugar Pairs DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b04695
Editor-in-Chief, Organometallics
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
Paul Chirik (born in 1973) earned a B.S. degree in 1995 from Virginia Tech, conducting undergraduate research with Professor Joseph Merola studying aqueous iridium chemistry. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in 2000 with Professor John Bercaw at the California Institute of Technology with a focus on metallocene-catalyzed olefin polymerization. After a postdoctoral appointment with Professor Christopher Cummins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began his independent career in 2001 at Cornell University. In 2011, Professor Chirik and his research group moved to Princeton University, where he was named the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry. His teaching and research have been recognized with a 2009 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, a 2016 U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the 2020 Linus Pauling Medal, and the 2021 Gabor Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Organometallics since 2015. The Chirik group focuses on developing catalysts using base metals such as iron, cobalt, nickel, and molybdenum to discover new reactions that drive more sustainable chemistry. Projects include electronic structure studies, asymmetric alkene hydrogenation, hydrogen isotope exchange, C–H functionalization, and alkene cycloaddition.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organometallics: Pyridine(diimine) Chelate Hydrogenation in a Molybdenum Nitrido Ethylene Complex DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00095
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Regio- and Diastereoselective Iron-Catalyzed [4+4]-Cycloaddition of 1,3-Dienes DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b02443
Organic Letters: Cobalt-Catalyzed C(sp2)–C(sp3) Suzuki–Miyaura Cross Coupling DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02934
Distinguished University Professor, University of Tokyo
Distinguished Professor, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS)
Makoto Fujita (born in 1957) received his Ph.D. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. After working at Chiba University and at the Institute for Molecular Science at Okazaki, he was appointed as a full professor at Nagoya University in 1999. Prof. Fujita moved to the University of Tokyo in 2002 and has since risen to the level of University Distinguished Professor, with a concurrent appointment as Distinguished Professor at the Institute for Molecular Science. Among recent awards, he has received the Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize in 2019, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2018, the Naito Foundation Merit Award in 2017, the ACS Fred Basolo Medal in 2014, an ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2013, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2013. The Fujita group’s research interests include transition-metal coordination self-assembly for the construction of nanoscale discrete frameworks, including MnL2n Archimedean/non-Archimedean solids; molecular confinement effects for developing/creating new properties and new reactions in the confined cavities of self-assembled coordination cages; and a crystalline sponge method involving single crystal-to-single crystal guest exchange in the pores of self-assembled coordination networks, applied to a new X-ray technique that does not require crystallization of target compounds.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Confinement of Water-Soluble Cationic Substrates in a Cationic Molecular Cage by Capping the Portals with Tripodal Anions DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08835
Organic Letters: Crystalline Sponge Method Enabled the Investigation of a Prenyltransferase-terpene Synthase Chimeric Enzyme, Whose Product Exhibits Broadened NMR Signals DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02284
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Synthetic β-Barrel by Metal-Induced Folding and Assembly DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04284
Professor, The University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry
Xuechen Li received a B.Sc. from Nankai University in 1999 and M.Sc at the University of Alberta with Professor Ole Hindsgaul in 2003, followed by his Ph.D. from Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Kahne in 2007. After postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Danishefsky at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Professor in 2018. The central theme of Prof. Li’s research focuses on the chemical biology of synthetic biomolecules with the aim of studying fundamental biological questions and developing potential therapeutic applications. Among his awards, he has received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2017 and the Rao Makineni Lectureship from the American Peptide Society in 2019.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Chemical Protein Synthesis: Advances, Challenges, and Outlooks DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c09664
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry: Methylation of Daptomycin Leading to the Discovery of Kynomycin, a Cyclic Lipodepsipeptide Active against Resistant Pathogens DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01957
Chemical Reviews: Ligation Technologies for the Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00657
Ray R. Irani Chair in Chemistry, University of Southern California
Mark Thompson (born in 1957) received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1985 from the California Institute of Technology. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University before taking an Assistant Professor position in the chemistry department at Princeton University in 1987. In 1995, Prof. Thompson moved his research team to the University of Southern California where he holds the Ray R. Irani Chair in Chemistry. His research involves the study of materials and devices for electroluminescence, photovoltaics and solar cells, chemical/biological sensing, and catalysis. Beyond his peer-reviewed journal articles, Prof. Thompson holds more than 250 patents, primarily in the areas of optoelectronic applications, such as light-emitting devices (LEDs) and solar cells. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors. Among his multiple awards for his work in organic LEDs, Prof. Thompson has received the MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society (2006), the Jan Rajchman Medal from the Society for Information Display (2006), the American Chemical Society Richard C. Tolman Award (2011), and the American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2015). Most recently, he was awarded IEEE’s Photonics Award in 2016 and Nishizawa Medal in 2017. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and awarded the Stephanie L Kwolek Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Enhancement of the Luminescent Efficiency in Carbene-Au(I)-Aryl Complexes by the Restriction of Renner–Teller Distortion and Bond Rotation. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13755.
Journal of the American Chemical Society: “Quick-Silver” from a Systematic Study of Highly Luminescent, Two-Coordinate, d10 Coinage Metal Complexes DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03657
Inorganic Chemistry: Tuning State Energies for Narrow Blue Emission in Tetradentate Pyridyl-Carbazole Platinum Complexes DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01888
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Rapid Multiscale Computational Screening for OLED Host Materials DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b16225
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, California Institute of Technology
Sarah Reisman (born in 1979) attended Connecticut College, where she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Timo Ovaska and graduated with honors in 2001. She carried out graduate studies at Yale University in the research group of Prof. John Wood, earning her Ph.D. in 2006 following work on the total synthesis of the natural product welwitindolinone A isonitrile. For her postdoctoral work, she pursued studies in the field of asymmetric catalysis as an NIH fellow, working with Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University. She began her independent career as an Assistant Professor at Caltech in 2008 and was promoted directly to Full Professor in 2014. Prof. Reisman’s lab focuses on the synthesis of complex natural products and development of new synthetic methodology, primarily nickel catalysis, cycloadditions, and opening of strained-ring precursors. The group has completed the first enantioselective total syntheses of (–)-acetylaranotin (40 years after its isolation), (–)-Maoecrystal Z, (–)-8-Demethoxyrunanine, and (–)-Cepharatines A, C and D. The team’s total synthesis of (+)-ryanodol was completed in 15 synthetic steps, a significant improvement on the previous shortest synthetic route of 35 steps. Prof. Reisman is recipient of the American Chemical Society Elias J. Corey Award (2020), the Thieme Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry Award (2019), Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis (2015), an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2013), was named one of the Science News ten early-career scientists on their way to critical acclaim in 2015, and was the inaugural American Chemical Society Women Chemists’ Committee Rising Star Award recipient (2012).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
ACS Catalysis: Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01842
Journal of the American Chemical Society: SeO2-Mediated Oxidative Transposition of Pauson–Khand Products DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13818
The Journal of Organic Chemistry: Evolution of a Strategy for the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Psiguadial B DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00728
Executive Director, Enabling Technologies, Process Research & Development, MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme)
Rebecca Ruck joined Merck Research Laboratories, Process Research & Development, in 2005 and is currently Executive Director of Enabling Technologies located in Rahway, NJ. Her team is tasked with leveraging its expertise in areas such as catalysis, biotechnology, and flow chemistry to enable processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients in the MSD pipeline and developing new capabilities that will allow Merck to continue to do so into the future. Dr. Ruck previously served as Director of three different teams: Process Chemistry, Catalysis & Automation, and Discovery Process Chemistry. Over the course of her career, she and her colleagues have participated in projects across a range of therapeutic areas, including β-lactamase inhibitors, hepatitis C, and diabetes. Dr. Ruck earned her A.B. degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1998. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003, where she was an NSF Fellow in the research group of Professor Eric Jacobsen. Following graduate studies, she served as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Robert Bergman at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ruck has a passion for driving Women in Chemistry activities, for example as a founder of Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC). She is the 2018 recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and in 2020 was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organic Process Research & Development: Bio- and Chemocatalysis for the Synthesis of Late Stage SAR-Enabling Intermediates for ROMK Inhibitors and MK-7145 for the Treatment of Hypertension and Heart Failure DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00314
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry: Discovery of MK-6169, a Potent Pan-Genotype Hepatitis C Virus NS5A Inhibitor with Optimized Activity against Common Resistance-Associated Substitutions DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01927
Organic Letters: Asymmetric Synthesis of Functionalized trans-Cyclopropoxy Building Block for Grazoprevir DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02867
Organic Process Research & Development: Gender Diversity in Process Chemistry DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.8b00378
Associate Editor, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
Yan-Mei Li attended Tsinghua University, receiving her bachelor’s (1987), master’s (1989), and Ph.D (1992) degrees in chemistry. Prof. Li is Chief Scientist of the major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 programs) and an awardee of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Her research interests focus on the synthesis of bioactive peptides and peptide conjugates, with the studies related to post-translational modification of proteins. Recent research interest also focuses on the chemical synthesis of vaccines and immunostimulants. Besides serving as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, she is on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Biology.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Chemical Reviews: Chemical Strategies to Boost Cancer Vaccines DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00833
The Journal of Organic Chemistry: De Novo Design To Synthesize Lanthipeptides Involving Cascade Cysteine Reactions: SapB Synthesis as an Example DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00259
ACS Chemical Neuroscience: Exploring the Roles of Post-Translational Modifications in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease Using Synthetic and Semisynthetic Modified α-Synuclein DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00447
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Designable Immune Therapeutical Vaccine System Based on DNA Supramolecular Hydrogels DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b00312
Chair Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg
Frank Würthner (born in 1964) received his education in chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (doctoral degree 1994 with Franz Effenberger) and carried out postdoctoral research with Julius Rebek at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years at BASF and five years at the University of Ulm (Habilitation 2001), he became Chair Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg in 2002. Prof. Würthner’s main research interests include the synthesis of π-conjugated molecules and functional dyes and their application in organic electronics, photonics and photovoltaics, along with the construction of complex supramolecular architectures composed of π-scaffolds, the mechanistic elucidation of self-assembly processes, and the investigation of light-induced processes in dye-based nanosystems. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Arnold-Sommerfeld-Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Science (2002), the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Royal Society of Spain (2016), the Ta-shue Chou Award from Academia Sinica (2018), and the Adolf-von-Baeyer Medal of the German Chemical Society (2019). From 2010 to 2018 he served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Synthesis of a Carbon Nanocone by Cascade Annulation DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06617
The Journal of Organic Chemistry: Palladium-Catalyzed [3+2] Annulation of Naphthalimide Acceptors and Thiophene Donors DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02372
Accounts of Chemical Research: Supramolecularly Engineered J-Aggregates Based on Perylene Bisimide Dyes DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00590
Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry
Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou (born in 1964) obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing Normal University followed by his Ph.D. in 2000 from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Professor F. A. Cotton. After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard University with Professor R. H. Holm, he joined the faculty of Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, in 2002. He returned to Texas A&M as Professor in 2008 and became Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry in 2015. Prof. Zhou is a pioneer in “pore engineering,” with his recent research focused on the discovery of synthetic methods to obtain robust framework materials with unique catalytic activities or desirable properties for energy-related applications. Prof. Zhou served as a guest editor with Jeffrey Long and Omar Yaghi for the first Chemical Reviews thematic issue on Metal-Organic Frameworks in 2012. Since June 2013, he has been an Associate Editor for Inorganic Chemistry. In 2016, Prof. Zhou was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Among his awards, he received the JSPS Invitation Fellowship (2014), DOE Hydrogen Program Special Recognition Award as a main contributor to the Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence (2010), Faculty Excellence Award from Air Products (2007), Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation (2005), NSF CAREER Award (2005), and Research Innovation Award from Research Corporation (2003). Prof. Zhou has been involved with multiple interdisciplinary energy development programs, spearheading the ARISE (Advanced Research Initiative for Sustainable Energy) organization at Texas A&M, participating in multiple U.S. Department of Energy initiatives (ARPA-E, EERE, NETL, EFRC), and currently serving as the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Academic Council of Texas A&M Energy Institute.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Chemical Reviews: Destruction of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Positive and Negative Aspects of Stability and Lability DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00722
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Optimizing Multivariate Metal–Organic Frameworks for Efficient C2H2/CO2 Separation DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00805
ACS Central Science: Hierarchy in Metal–Organic Frameworks DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00158
Inorganic Chemistry: Regulating the Topologies of Zirconium–Organic Frameworks for a Crystal Sponge Applicable to Inorganic Matter DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02152
Molecular Technology Innovation Chair Professor, The University of Tokyo
Eiichi Nakamura (born in 1951), a graduate of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, is currently Molecular Technology Innovation Chair Professor and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a former member of the Science Council of Japan (2014-2020) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2010-2020). Prof. Nakamura is a synthetic organic chemist by training, having recently triggered people’s interest in iron-catalyzed C–C bond formation reactions (Chem. Rev., 117, 9086–9139 (2017)). He has used his synthetic expertise for exploration of new aromatic and fullerene compounds for photonic and electronic devices (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 5018-5022 (2018)), with his research over the past decade focusing on the development of Single Molecule Atomic Resolution real Time Electron Microscopy (SMART-EM), a technique for studying organic and inorganic materials (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 18281-18287 (2017)). He has received the Chemical Society of Japan Award (2003), the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (2009), the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2010), the Fujiwara Award (2014), the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), and named a CSJ Fellow of the Chemical Society of Japan (2019).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Accounts of Chemical Research: Carbon-Bridged Oligo(phenylene vinylene)s: A de Novo Designed, Flat, Rigid, and Stable π-Conjugated System DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00369
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Organic/Inorganic Hybrid p-Type Semiconductor Doping Affords Hole Transporting Layer Free Thin-Film Perovskite Solar Cells with High Stability DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b06513
Journal of the American Chemical Society: B/N-Doped p-Arylenevinylene Chromophores: Synthesis, Properties, and Microcrystal Electron Crystallographic Study DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10337
Associate Editor, Organic Process Research & Development
Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qilong Shen (born in 1974) completed undergraduate studies at Nanjing University and master’s degrees at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He then pursued Ph.D. studies under the guidance of Prof. John F. Hartwig at Yale University, graduating in 2007, followed by postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Shen then returned to Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (CAS) in 2010 and is currently Vice Director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry. Since 2016, he is also an adjunct Professor at New York University-Shanghai. His group’s research focuses on the development of electrophilic fluoroalkylating reagents and organometallic fluorine chemistry. Since 2015, Prof. Shen has served as an Associate Editor for Organic Process Research & Development (OPR&D).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
ACS Catalysis: Synergistic Lewis Acid and Photoredox-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylative Difunctionalization of Alkenes with Selenium Ylide-Based Trifluoromethylating Reagent DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c03776
Organic Letters: Cobalt-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling Reaction of Fluorinated Secondary Benzyl Bromides with Lithium Aryl Boronates/ZnBr2 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01363
Organic Process Research & Development: Scalable Synthesis of S-Fluoromethyl Benzenesulfonothioate DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00101
Journal of the American Chemical Society: C(sp3)-CF3 Reductive Elimination from a Five-Coordinate Neutral Copper(III) Complex DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03304
Associate Editor, Organometallics
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Ching-Wen Chiu (born in 1977), a native of Taiwan, completed her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at National Chiao Tung University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. Prof. Chiu then moved to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Texas A&M University under the supervision of Prof. Francois Gabbai, and then spent two years in Germany working with Prof. Holger Braunschweig as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wurzburg. In 2010, she returned to Taiwan as a chemistry professor at National Taiwan University. Prof. Chiu’s research focuses on the syntheses and catalytic activity of main-group organometallic compounds, with specific emphasis on boron cations, stable p-block radicals, and divalent group 14 ligands.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organometallics: A Non-innocent Ligand Supported Germylene and Its Diverse Reactions DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00671
Organometallics: [η5-Cp*B-Mes]+: A Masked Potent Boron Lewis Acid DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00671
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Harnessing Dielectric Confinement on Tin Perovskites to Achieve Emission Quantum Yield up to 21% DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03148
Inorganic Chemistry: PSb+P Ligand: Platform for a Stibenium to Transition-Metal Interaction DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03530
Inorganic Chemistry: Destabilizing Character of a π-Conjugated Boron Center in Bisphenol Radicals DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01865
Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director, Lab of Supramolecular Photochemistry
Li-Zhu Wu (born in 1967) received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Lanzhou University in 1990, and earned her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Chen-Ho Tung in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, she worked at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry as an Associate Professor. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Hong Kong working with Professor Chi-Ming Che, she joined the Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a Full Professor in 1999. Prof. Wu’s research interests focus on photochemical conversion, including artificial photosynthesis; visible-light catalysis for organic transformation; and photoinduced electron transfer, energy transfer, and chemical reactions in supramolecular systems. Among her recent awards, she received the 3rd Chinese Chemical Society-Evonik Chemical Innovation Award, the 10th Physical Organic Chemistry Award of China, the 7th Young Women Scientists Award of China, and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and is an Editorial Advisory Board member of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, JACS AU, ACS Omega, ChemPhysChem, ChemCatChem, and Acta Chimica Sinica.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Unveiling Catalytic Sites in a Typical Hydrogen Photogeneration System Consisting of Semiconductor Quantum Dots and 3d-Metal Ions DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11768
Journal of Organic Chemistry: Visible Light-Catalyzed Benzylic C–H Bond Chlorination by a Combination of Organic Dye (Acr+-Mes) and N-Chlorosuccinimide DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01000
Organic Letters: Thiol Activation toward Selective Thiolation of Aromatic C–H Bond DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01050
Distinguished Professor, Kyushu University
Director of the Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics Research
Chihaya Adachi (born in 1963) obtained his doctorate in materials science and technology in 1991 from Kyushu University and held positions at the Chemical Products R&D Center at Ricoh Co., the Department of Functional Polymer Science at Shinshu University, the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and Chitose Institute of Science and Technology before returning to Kyushu University. He is now Distinguished Professor, Director of Kyushu University’s Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics Research (OPERA), Program Coordinator of Kyushu University’s Advanced Graduate da Vinci Course on Molecular Systems for Devices, and Director of the Fukuoka i3 center for Organic Photonics & Electronics Research. Prof. Adachi’s research combines the areas of chemistry, physics, and electronics to advance the field of organic light-emitting materials and devices from both the materials and device perspectives through the design of new molecules with novel properties, the study of processes occurring in individual materials and complete devices, and the exploration of new device structures. He is co-founder and serves as scientific advisor for Kyulux Inc., which is commercializing OLED emitters based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence. In 2019, he cofounded KOALA Tech Inc. to further develop and eventually commercialize organic laser diodes. Among his recent awards, Prof. Adachi has received include a 2017 Nishina Memorial Prize and a 2016 Thomson Reuters Research Front Award, and he was named a Highly Cited Researcher for the Cross-Field (2018/2019) and Physics (2020) category.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
ACS Materials Letters: Design Strategy for Robust Organic Semiconductor Laser Dyes DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00536
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Utilization of Multi-Heterodonors in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules and Their High Performance Bluish-Green Organic Light-Emitting Diodes DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b20020
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: Suppression of Structural Change upon S1-T1 Conversion Assists Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Process in Carbazole-Benzonitrile Derivatives 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00810
ACS Photonics: Distributed Feedback Lasers and Light-Emitting Diodes Using 1-Naphthylmethylamnonium Low-Dimensional Perovskite DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01413
Associate Editor, Chemical Reviews
Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego
Director, UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory
Guy Bertrand received his Ph.D. from University Paul Sabatier. After serving as a French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) group leader at the University of Toulouse and then at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, Prof. Bertrand was Director of the Laboratoire d’Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée at University Paul Sabatier from 1998 to 2005. From 2001 to 2012, he served as the Director of the UCR/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, which he helped create. Since July 2012, has been Distinguished Professor and Director of the UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. Prof. Bertrand’s research focuses on taming reactive molecules such as carbenes, nitrenes, and diradicals and transforming these compounds into useful tools for synthetic chemists. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the European Academy of Sciences (2003), and the French Academy of Sciences (2004). Among his awards, he has received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Sir Ronald Nyholm Medal (2009), the Grand Prix Le Bel of the French Chemical Society (2010), the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2014), the RSC’s Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award (2016), the Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2017), and le Grand Prix de la Maison de la Chimie (2020).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Realizing Metal-Free Carbene-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions with CO DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c09938
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Optically Pure C1-Symmetric Cyclic(alkyl)(amino) carbene Ruthenium-Complexes for Asymmetric Olefin Metathesis. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10705
Chemical Reviews: Cyclic (Alkyl)- and (Aryl)-(amino)carbene Coinage Metal Complexes and Their Applications DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00043
Novartis Distinguished Scientist - Principal Fellow, Novartis Chemical & Analytical Development
Fabrice Gallou received his Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University (2001) in the field of natural products total synthesis. Dr. Gallou then joined Chemical Development at Boehringer Ingelheim in the U.S., working as a process chemist responsible for route scouting and supply of early phase programs. He subsequently moved in 2006 to the Chemical Development group at Novartis, in Switzerland, as a process research and development chemist, and in 2008 became responsible for global scientific activities, overseeing route scouting, development and implementation of practical and economical chemical processes for large-scale production of active pharmaceutical ingredients. His research interests fall on the development of sustainable synthetic methodologies intended for large scale implementation. Dr. Gallou has more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and patents, and among his awards has recently received the 2019 Swiss Chemical Society Senior Industrial Award and the 2019 Yves Chauvin Award from the French Chemical Society.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
The Journal of Organic Chemistry: Sustainability Challenges in Peptide Synthesis and Purification: From R&D to Production DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b03001
Organic Process Research & Development: Surfactant Technology: With New Rules, Designing New Sequences Is Required! DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00454
Organic Letters: Site Selective Amide Reduction of Cyclosporine A Enables Diverse Derivation of an Important Cyclic Peptide DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01245
ACS Catalysis: Sonogashira Couplings Catalyzed by Fe Nanoparticles Containing ppm Levels of Reusable Pd, under Mild Aqueous Micellar Conditions DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00007
Editorial Advisory Board, Inorganic Chemistry
Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Yunho Lee (born in 1974) is an Associate Professor at Seoul National University. He attended Chonbuk National University where he received a B.S. degree in chemistry in 2000 and then left Korea to begin his doctoral studies under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth Karlin at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jonas Peters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. In the winter of 2010, he returned to Korea and started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), moving to Seoul National University in 2020. Prof. Lee’s primary research interests focus on fundamental transition-metal coordination chemistry and its application in various small-molecule conversions and catalysis inspired by metalloenzyme chemistry. Selected awards include the Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2011), the Young Inorganic Chemist Award (2015), and KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2017) from the Korea Chemical Society.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Inorganic Chemistry: Photophysical Tuning of σ-SiH Copper-Carbazolide Complexes To Give Deep-Blue Emission DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02409
Organic Letters: Divergent Strategies for the π-Extension of Heteroaryl Halides Using Norbornadiene as an Acetylene Synthon DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03732
Accounts of Chemical Research: Selective Transformation of CO2 to CO at a Single Nickel Center DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00634
Professor, Southern University of Science & Technology
Xin-Yuan Liu received his B.S. degree in 2001 from Anhui Normal University and his M.S degree in Chemistry in 2004 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry CAS in cooperation with Anhui Normal University. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree with Prof. Chi-Ming Che in 2010 at the University of Hong Kong. After two years of postdoctoral research at the University of Hong Kong and Scripps Research with Prof. Che and Prof. Carlos Barbas III, he joined Southern University of Science & Technology (SUSTech) in 2012 and was promoted to tenured Full Professor in 2018. Prof. Liu’s research interests are in the field of transition-metal-catalyzed radical-involved asymmetric chemistry. Among other honors, he is an awardee of the 2017 National Excellent Young Scholar (NSFC), 2017 Changjiang Scholar Program-Youth Project (Ministry of Education), 2017 Distinguished Lectureship Award (Chemical Society of Japan), 2019 CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award, and 2020 National Distinguished Young Scholar (NSFC).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Cu/Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Three-Component Radical-Initiated 1,2-Dicarbofunctionalization of Alkenes DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11736
Accounts of Chemical Research: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reactions Involving Radicals DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00381
Early Career Advisory Board, Chemical Reviews
Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Ho Yu Au-Yeung obtained his B.Sc. (2004, First Class Honor) and M.Phil. (2006) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, conducting research in organometallic chemistry with Dr. Hung Kay Lee. He was awarded a Croucher Scholarship for his Ph.D. study, in which he investigated the dynamic combinatorial synthesis of donor-acceptor catenanes in water with Prof. Jeremy Sanders at the University of Cambridge (2010). He then joined the group of Prof. Christopher Chang at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, developing luminescent tools for studying transition metals in biological systems. In summer 2013, he joined the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong. Prof Au-Yeung’s research interests lie in the broad area of supramolecular chemistry, focusing in particular on chemical topology and mechanically interlocked molecules with new structures, properties and functions. His work has been recognized by the Graeme Hanson Early Career Researcher Award from the Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (2016), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2016), Croucher Innovation Award (2016), and an Asian Core Programme Lectureship Award (Taiwan, 2018).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Inorganic Chemistry: Strategies To Assemble Catenanes with Multiple Interlocked Macrocycles DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02523
Professor, Sichuan University
Bo Liu (born in 1976) is a native of Chongqing, China, and received his B.Sc. from Southwest Normal University (now merged into Southwest University) in 1998. He then obtained his M.Sc. at Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoming Feng, followed by his Ph.D. in 2004 at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Wei-Shan Zhou. In 2004, he moved to UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jef De Brabander. In 2007, Prof. Liu joined the faculty at Sichuan University. His research interests focus on total synthesis of bioactive natural products, especially terpenoids with novel structures based on their biosynthetic hypothesis, and NPS-oriented methodology. Among his recognitions, Prof. Liu has received the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education (2009), Outstanding Youth Science Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2013), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2014), Weishan Natural Product Synthesis Award of Chinese Chemical Society (2015), and National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Science Fund (2019).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organic Letters: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Rumphellclovane E DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03748
Organic Letters: Construction of BCDEF Core of Andilesin C DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02791
Organic Letters: Iron-Catalyzed Intramolecular Perezone-Type [5+2] Cycloaddition: An Access to Tricyclo[6.3.1.01,6]dodecane DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b00989
Professor, Huaqiao University
Qiuling Song received a B.S. degree from Zhengzhou University (1998), M.S. degree from Peking University (2001) working with Professor Zhenfeng Xi, and Ph.D. at Princeton University (2006) working with Professor Robert Pascal. After conducting industrial pharmaceutical research for several years, she joined the faculty in the College of Materials Science at Huaqiao University in 2012. Prof. Song’s research interests range from organoboron and organofluorine chemistry to free-radical chemistry with an emphasis on the synthesis of biologically active organic molecules following green chemistry approaches. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry and Green Synthesis & Catalysis and on the Editorial Board of Chinese Chemical Letters and Chinese Journal of Pharmaceuticals. Among her awards and honors, Prof. Song was selected for the Fujian Province Hundred Talents Program (2013), received the 6th China Overseas Chinese Contribution Award (2016), the Quanzhou Natural Science First Prize (2017), and several Asian Core Program Lectureship Awards (2019).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organic Letters: Precise Construction of SCF2H or SeCF2H Groups on Heteroarenes Generated in Situ from CF3-Containing 1,3-Enynes DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b04389
ACS Central Science: Deconstructive Functionalizations of Unstrained Carbon–Nitrogen Cleavage Enabled by Difluorocarbene DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00779
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Michael Reaction Inspired Atroposelective Construction of Axially Chiral Biaryls DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01963
Professor of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Mi Hee Lim (born in 1977) obtained her M.Sc. in 2001 under Professor Wonwoo Nam at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul. Prof. Lim moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, where she received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Stephen Lippard. She then pursued her postdoctoral research as a TRDRP postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Jacqueline Barton at California Institute of Technology. In the summer of 2008, she began her independent career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan, before moving to Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) in 2013 as an Associate Professor with tenure. In 2018, Professor Lim joined the Department of Chemistry at KAIST and is now Professor of Chemistry. Among her accomplishments she has received the 2020 S-Oil Next Generation Science Award and the 2020 Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry (AsBIC) James Hoeschele Award, was elected in 2019 as a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science & Technology, named in 2016 as one of “30 Young Scientists of Korea” to Lead Basic Science Research for the Next 30 Years, elected in 2016 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2013 received a U.S. National Science Foundation Career Award. Her current research interests lie in elucidating the individual and mutual roles of metals, proteins, oxidative stress, and inflammation in human diseases at the molecular level.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Minimalistic Principles for Designing Small Molecules with Multiple Reactivities against Pathological Factors in Dementia DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13100
Inorganic Chemistry: Strategies Employing Transition Metal Complexes to Modulate Amyloid-β Aggregation DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02813
Chemical Reviews: Development of Multifunctional Molecules as Potential Drug Candidates for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Last Decade DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00138
Associate Editor, Organometallics
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (CAS)
Liang Deng (born in 1980) is a professor at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (CAS) in the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry. He received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Zhenfeng Xi, and his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Zuowei Xie. After working as a postdoctoral fellow in the groups of Prof. Xie and Prof. Richard Holm at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at SIOC in 2009. Research in Prof. Deng’s group focuses on the synthetic, structure, and reactivity aspects of organo-transition-metal chemistry with emphasis on base-metal compounds capable of facilitating small-molecule or inert bond activation, performing catalysis, and mimicking the organometallic units of metalloenzymes and cofactors. He has been honored by the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010), the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China (2012), the ACS Organometallics Young Investigator Fellows program (2014), and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2017).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organometallics: Reactivity of a Two-Coordinate Cobalt(0) Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbene Complex DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00875
Inorganic Chemistry: A Two-Coordinate Iron(II) Imido Complex with NHC Ligation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Its Diversified Reactivity of Nitrene Transfer and C–H Bond Activation DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01147
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Substrate Redox Noninnocence Inducing Stepwise Oxidative Addition Reaction: Nitrosoarene C–N Bond Cleavage on Low-Coordinate Cobalt(0) Species DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03726
Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Guangyu Zhu obtained his B.Sc. in chemistry from Peking University in 2002, where he developed a passion for biological chemistry and drug discovery. He moved to the U.S. and obtained his Ph.D. in biological chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, working on anticancer drug development and discovery. He subsequently carried out postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Stephen J. Lippard on the mechanism of action of cisplatin, one of the most widely used chemotherapeutic drugs in the clinic. Prof. Zhu joined the City University of Hong Kong in 2011 and now is an Associate Professor. His research interests lie at the interface of chemistry and biology, focusing on anticancer drug development and mechanisms. Current projects include synthesis and biological evaluation of metal-based anticancer agents such as photoactivatable Pt(IV) prodrugs, development of cancer-specific nanomedicine to conquer cisplatin resistance, and screening of biologically active small-molecule anticancer agents and their target validation.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Journal of the American Chemical Society: A Photocaged, Water-Oxidizing, and Nucleolus-Targeted Pt(IV) Complex with a Distinct Anticancer Mechanism DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00221
Inorganic Chemistry: Synthesis and Cytotoxic Study of a Platinum(IV) Anticancer Prodrug with Selectivity toward Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone (LHRH) Receptor-Positive Cancer Cells DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01583
Chemistry of Materials: Oleylamine-Mediated Synthesis of Small NaYbF4 Nanoparticles with Tunable Size DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01050
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University
Gong Chen (born in 1977) received his B.S. degree in 1998 from Nanjing University and Ph.D. in 2004 at Columbia University. Following postdoctoral work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center he starting his independent academic career at Pennsylvania State University in 2008. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Nankai University as a Professor and member of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry. Prof. Chen’s research interests include the development of palladium-catalyzed and radical-mediated C-H functionalization reactions and synthetic and biological studies of complex peptides and carbohydrates. Among his accomplishments, he received ACP lectureship awards in Japan and Malaysia (2018), was recognized by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2017), a WuXi AppTec Scholar Award in Life Science and Chemistry (2016), Amgen Young Investigator Award (2013), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2011), and National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2011).
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organic Letters: Construction of Peptide Macrocycles via Radical-Mediated Intramolecular C–H Alkylations DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03940
The Journal of Organic Chemistry: Selective Removal of Aminoquinoline Auxiliary by IBX Oxidation DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01362
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Histidine-Specific Peptide Modification via Visible-Light-Promoted C–H Alkylation DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09127
Professor, National University of Singapore
Yu Zhao obtained his B.S. in chemistry at Peking University in 2002, where he carried out research on surface chemistry with Prof. Limin Qi. In the same year, he went abroad to Boston College and obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 2008 under the guidance of Prof. Marc Snapper and Prof. Amir Hoveyda. Afterward, he worked with Nobel Laureate Prof. Richard Schrock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate in the field of organometallic chemistry. In 2011, Yu was awarded an NRF fellowship from Singapore and joined the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor, being promoted to associate professor in 2017. Prof. Zhao’s research program at NUS focuses on the discovery and development of efficient catalytic methodology to promote sustainable chemical synthesis and its application to medicinal and material sciences. His work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the 2019 Asian Rising Stars Lectureship Award, 2018 Tokyo Chemical Industry-SNIC Industry Award in Synthetic Chemistry, and 2016 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award.
Recent selected ACS Publications:
Organic Letters: Isothiourea-Catalyzed Atroposelective N-Acylation of Sulfonamides DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02266
ACS Catalysis: Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Amination of Alcohols Assisted by Microwave: Stereoconvergent Access to Tetralin- and Indane-Derived Chiral Amines DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02468
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Diastereo- and Atroposelective Synthesis of Bridged Biaryls Bearing an Eight-Membered Lactone through an Organocatalytic Cascade DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b08510