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Looking forward: Despite the many challenges posed by 2020, the year also marked much progress and many changes at ChemPhotoChem and Chemistry Europe. The editors reflect on events at the journal over the last year, announce exciting developments for the year ahead, and welcome members of the renewed Editorial Advisory Board, the inaugural Early-Career Advisory Board and the Editorial Board co-Chairs. What a year 2020 has been… When we sat down at this time last year, we certainly could not have predicted how the year would ultimately unfold. On behalf of the entire editorial team, we sincerely hope that you, your families, and your colleagues are doing as well as possible in these disruptive and unprecedented times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. We fully appreciate the challenges you faced, and continue to face, as labs rapidly closed with the advance of the pandemic, and now as they slowly and cautiously re-open (or not). We, the editorial team at ChemPhotoChem, and the teams at all of our Chemistry Europe sister journals, continue to work remotely. Luckily, technology has enabled a largely successful transition and the journal continues to operate as usual, with no major impact in terms of our service to the community. Throughout all of the turmoil, we must thank all of you for continuing to support the journal as authors, reviewers, and readers. Let's move on to some good news! In June, the Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2020) was released and ChemPhotoChem received an excellent first impact factor of 2.838, clearly establishing us as one of the leading photochemistry journals worldwide. In April of this year, ChemPhotoChem, together with all of our sister journals, underwent a face-lift. This was an important part of the transformation of ChemPubSoc Europe into Chemistry Europe and coincided with the celebration of the 25th Birthday of our sister journal Chemistry – A European Journal. Chemistry Europe is composed of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries, representing over 75,000 chemists. This association co-owns 16 scholarly journals, one of which being ChemPhotoChem. We are proud to be a part of Chemistry Europe and embrace whole-heartedly its mission: After four busy years (how fast time has gone!), it is time to renew the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPhotoChem. We would like to welcome Tehshik Yoon (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who will join Axel Griesbeck (Universität zu Köln) and Kazunari Domen (University of Tokyo) as co-Chairs of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal. We welcome also the new members of the Editorial Advisory Board as well as those who have kindly agreed to stay with the journal for a second term (Table 1). We take this opportunity to acknowledge all of our board members and chairs, past and present, for their invaluable support of the journal from day one and to offer our sincere gratitude. Co–Chairs Kazunari Domen Japan University of Tokyo Axel Griesbeck Germany Universität zu Köln Tehshik Peter Yoon USA University of Wisconsin-Madison Members Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh India NIIST Joakim Andréasson Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Ally Aukauloo France Université Paris-Saclay Christian Bochet Switzerland Université de Fribourg Luís D. Carlos Portugal University of Aveiro Eun Jin Cho Republic of Korea Chung-Ang University Alberto Credi Italy Università di Bologna Alexander Deiters USA University of Pittsburgh Francis D'Souza USA University of North Texas Ben Feringa The Netherlands Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Malcolm Forbes USA Bowling Green State University Frank Glorius Germany Universität Münster Leticia González Austria Universität Wien Daniel Gryko Poland Polska Akademia Nauk Anthony Harriman UK Newcastle University Belinda Heyne Canada University of Calgary Johan Hofkens Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Hiroshi Ikeda Japan Osaka Prefecture University Osamu Ishitani Japan Tokyo Institute of Technology Denis Jacquemin France University of Nantes Tanja Junkers Australia Monash University Nathalie Katsonis The Netherlands University of Groningen Nobuo Kimizuka Japan Kyushu University Rafal Klajn Israel Weizmann Institute of Science Hiroshi Kominami Japan Kindai University Bin Liu Singapore National University of Singapore Paolo Melchiorre Spain ICIQ Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen Denmark Københavns Universitet Chan Beum Park Republic of Korea KAIST Julia Pérez-Prieto Spain Universidad de Valencia Bernd Strehmel Germany Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences Pakkirisamy Thilagar India Indian Institute of Science (IISC) He Tian China ECUST Tomas Torres Spain Universidad Autonoma Madrid Dirk Trauner USA New York University Georgios Vassilikogiannakis Greece University of Crete Ranjani Viswanatha India ICMS, JNCASR Hans-Achim Wagenknecht Germany Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Oliver S. Wenger Switzerland University of Basel Li-Zhu Wu China Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (CAS) Wen-Jing Xiao China Central China Normal University Jye-Shane Yang Taiwan National Taiwan University Kirsten Zeitler Germany University of Leipzig As mentioned earlier, an important part of the mission of Chemistry Europe is to provide support to researchers at all career levels. With this in mind, we have decided to establish an Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) at ChemPhotoChem. We aim both to support early career researchers and to give them a stronger voice in the journal's development, and members were selected according to their field of research, scientific reputation and career stage (Table2). Together with the Editorial Advisory Board, ECAB members will support and help to focus the future direction of the journal. We look forward to working closely with all of you! A. Jean-Luc Ayitou USA Illinois Tech. Mao Chen China Fudan University Basile F. E. Curchod UK Durham University Pui-Chi Lo China City University of Hong Kong Matteo Mauro France Université de Strasbourg Pablo Rivera-Fuentes Switzerland Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Ellen M. Sletten USA University of California, Los Angeles Wiktor Szymański The Netherlands University Medical Center Groningen Olalla Vázquez Germany Philipps-Universität Marburg This year, we have had several exciting projects in progress, several of which are still underway. Early in the year, we published a bumper special collection on Photochemical Synthesis, together with our sister journal the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. The project was kindly guest edited by Tehshik Yoon, Zhiwei Zuo, Geraldine Masson and Burkhard König. For some of the latest developments in photochemical synthesis terms of reaction scope, synthetic products achievable, mechanistic aspects and new methods applied, we encourage you to check it out! Our special collection on Bioimaging (with Kevin Belfield, Jianhua Hao and Chantal Andraud as guest editors) aimed to highlight recent progress on this topic and we are happy to announce that this project is almost complete. Keep an eye on the special collection on the journal webpage for the latest additions! Another hot topic of research in the community is Singlet Fission and this was indeed the focus subject for one of our most recent topical special collections. With support from guest editors Rik Tykwinski and Dirk Guldi, we hope that this virtual issue will become a useful resource for our readers. We also have a number of excellent initiatives in the pipeline for 2021! Our special collection on Photopharmacology (guest edited by Alexander Deiters, Olalla Vazquez, and Susanne Kossatz) is moving along nicely and we have received many top-quality submissions. Early next year we will also publish a topical special collection on Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction (together with guest editors Hongwei Huang, Gonghu Li, and Matthias Schwalbe), which looks set to be a bumper issue! Please also keep your eyes peeled for a focused special issue on Circularly Polarised Luminescence, Chiroptical Sensing and Asymmetric Photochemistry! For all of our projects, the latest published articles can be found on the journal Early View page as well as on the specific project page on the journal homepage. Chemistry Europe is pleased to announce the launch of two new sister journals, both of which will publish their first issues in 2021. The journal Analysis & Sensing publishes top-quality peer-reviewed research on all aspects of analytical and bioanalytical chemistry and sensors, ranging from fundamental studies on core spectroscopic and spectrometric methods to applications across a variety of disciplines. Its multidisciplinary scope includes biomedical analysis, biosensors, electrochemical analysis, in vivo probes, imaging, instrumentation, mass spectrometry, metabolomics, microfluidics, nano- and 2D materials, point-of-care assays, proteomics, and separation. Analysis & Sensing is published on behalf of a subgroup of Chemistry Europe. The Editorial Board Chairs are Ron Heeren (Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands), Janina Kneipp (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany), and Jianghong Rao (Stanford University). The second new journal, Chemistry–Methods, is a fully open-access interdisciplinary journal publishing high-impact peer-reviewed research on all aspects of methods in chemistry, ranging from operando methods in catalysis, to new approaches, to imaging and new synthetic methods. The Editorial Board Co–Chairs are Jana Roithová (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Oliver Kappe (Universität Graz, Austria), and Steven Wheeler (University of Athens, Georgia, USA). Finally, please do keep an eye on our Twitter feed @ChemPhotoChem for the latest published articles and general news from the journal. We look forward to working with you and receiving your manuscripts on the latest developments in photochemistry! Thank you – our authors, reviewers and readers – for your continued support of the journal in good times and bad. Please accept the best wishes of the entire editorial staff at ChemPhotoChem for your ongoing health and wellbeing. Here's to a happy, healthy and less disruptive 2021!

Time to celebrate 10 years of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. Find out more about the development of the journal, and learn about recent editorial updates. A warm hello and healthy New Year 2022. This New Year's celebration is of symbolic nature to the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry as it falls in the middle of AsianJOC’s 10th anniversary celebration. The 10th volume was published in 2021, and in 2022 AsianJOC is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Let′s briefly experience the journey from AsianJOC’s birth till the year 2022—in which our authors, referees, board members and readers play a big role: Ten years ago, the journal was founded to cater the organic chemistry community in the Asian and Pacific region (APAC). Back then, it was already evident that excellent research articles in the field of organic chemistry had been published by authors from Asian countries, and that this number was growing tremendously and expected to grow further. In addition to the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, the publisher Wiley-VCH thus promoted the foundation of the sister journal for the APAC region. Also, researchers from the field of organic chemistry and the member societies of ACES were involved. ACES, the Asian Chemical Editorial Society, is a group of 12 major chemical societies from the APAC region that together co-own the journal and coordinate future publishing activities. The first issue of AsianJOC was published in September 2012. Actually, the anticipated growing number of excellent research papers in the APAC region found a home in AsianJOC which is great! AsianJOC has been growing continuously in the past 10 years, with only a small dip during the COVID pandemic. The journal has reached an all-time high in published articles in 2021 (Figure 1a). This is a fantastic development! If we look at the past three years, the increasing number of published papers correlates with an increase in quality and impact of published content, which is reflected in the Impact Factor growth in that time period (Figure 1b). a) AsianJOC's growth in publications in the past ten years, and growth in b) Impact Factor in the past three years. From its founding, AsianJOC has been rooted in the organic chemistry community in Asia, while at the same time it attracts authors and readers from all over the world. Figure 2a shows that more than 75% of submissions come from the Asia-Pacific region. The biggest contributors are India and China. AsianJOC is an attractive international journal that also reaches an international audience with more than half of readers coming from Europe and America (Figure 2b). To conclude the journey, we celebrate the success of AsianJOC, which would have not been possible without the amazing support from authors, reviewers, and board members, and the support from our ACES society members. The whole editorial team thanks you for your support. Depiction of AsianJOC's international authorship and readership a) Share of published articles by country in 2021 b) Share of full text downloads by region in 2021. If you're interested in learning more about the early days of AsianJOC, you can look forward to an upcoming special Editorial by Editorial Board Member Hyun-Joon Ha. Prof. Ha, who has been involved with the journal from the very start, gives a retrospective view on the journal's development. In celebration of the 10th volume, AsianJOC hosted its first virtual symposium on November 23, 2021 that attracted almost 500 registrants. AsianJOC co-chair Keiji Maruoka and myself, Deputy Editor Dörthe Mellmann, moderated the symposium and shed light onto the successful development of the journal since its launch. In addition, three Board members happily agreed to present their research, followed by a question and answer session: Editorial Board co-chair Sungwoo Hong from KAIST in Korea gave fantastic insights into radical-mediated regioselective C−H functionalization of heteroarenes. International Advisory Board member Namrata Rastogi from CSIR-CDRI in India shared with us excellent results that she and her team achieved in organo-photoredox mediated reactions for hetero/carbocycle synthesis. Editorial Board member Hirohisa Ohmiya from Kanazawa University in Japan gave an inspiring and impressive talk on radical-mediated carbene catalysis. Positive feedback from participants showed that the event was overall successful and well-received by the participants. In addition to the symposium, the editorial team compiled a Special Collection featuring exclusively Board member contributions. Some contributions were highlighted with a cover picture (Figure 3). All articles are free to read until February 2022, browse and discover their work by clicking here. Cover Picture of the 10th Anniversary Special Collection. To cater our readers with cutting-edge research, and to give you the opportunity to contribute with your research paper to topical Special Collections, AsianJOC has new special collections planned for 2022. One is on Boron Chemistry and prepared in collaboration with our sister journal European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Another one is a Special Collection of recent work on Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Organic Chemistry. The guest editors are Professor Liang-Nian He from Nankai University in China and Professor Shoubhik Das from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. If you plan to publish your results in one of the areas, we invite you to submit your manuscript directly to AsianJOC or EurJOC. If you have any questions or suggestions you may get in touch with our journals by e-email. Publishing is more than just getting the work written, accepted and published. Probably the most important aspect after publication is to make your work visible to your peers. We support you by promoting your papers and cover pictures on various Social Media Channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and WeChat. Authors can then re-tweet and share our posts on their personal and institutional social media channels. Benefit from more visibility, and publish your paper with us. To stay tuned, please connect with AsianJOC's Twitter page, and our joint ACES journal social media channels on Facebook, and most recently on LinkedIn! The Asian Chemical Editorial Society's LinkedIn page features not only the latest news and updates from AsianJOC, but also from our ACES sister journals Chemistry—An Asian Journal and ChemNanoMat. For our Chinese speaking authors, you can follow our journals’ news on WeChat Wiley Chem. On Wiley Online Library you can get all information about our journal, browse issues, Special Collections and get content alerts. At the ACES journals, and at our sister journals from Chemistry Europe which is the association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries, we constantly strive to find ways in which we can improve the author experience at our journals. With this in mind, in October last year we introduced an important change that makes the submission process simpler than ever. For manuscripts reporting the results of primary research, we have now only one article type—the research article. We combined the previous Full Paper and Communication into the new Research Article, giving our authors the flexibility and freedom to write their research how it needs to be written, submitting a research article to the journals which can be of any length. For more information on this and the other types of manuscript we publish, we encourage you to consult the journal Notice to Authors page. To help make it easier for readers and authors to cite articles immediately after publication, we will be using eLocators to identify articles for Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry from January 2022. Instead of page numbers, manuscripts will be identified by a 10-character reference derived from the article's digital object identifier (DOI). For example, this editorial should be cited as “D. Mellmann, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e202100775”. eLocators serve the same purpose as page numbers in print media and are being more frequently used in the publishing industry as most research is published online. They have the advantage that your article is immediately citable in its final form upon acceptance, rather than having to wait for it to be assigned to an issue. We believe this is a positive step towards the digitization of science publishing, and that it will ultimately serve to make life easier for those who publish and read articles from the Chemistry Journal group. Please note this does not change the citation style for articles that have already been published in issues up to the end of 2021; these will still be cited with their assigned page numbers. The COVID pandemic has shown us how uncertain, surprising, and changeable life can be. This makes it for you and us difficult to travel and to meet each other. Once the situation gets better, we will keep you updated about what conference we plan to attend, so that we can meet you in person. We want to know how we can best support you in these difficult times. Thus, feel free to inform us, if you need additional time for submissions, revisions or for doing peer review. Though we try to be flexible we want to ensure a timely peer-review process. We encourage referees to use the “accept” or “decline” button in our invitation letters. This action gives the editor immediate information about whether or not new referees need to be invited. AsianJOC is looking to tie closer relations with the national member societies of ACES, in particular with the organic chemistry divisions. We are working on making the relationship between editors, authors and societies more transparent and lively. The member societies can be seen as a bridge between authors and publisher. We want to make sure that authors benefit from publishing with us and grow with us, e. g. in the form of organized workshops, sponsorship of lectures, awards, poster prizes, and so forth. Are you also curious about the New Year 2022? Let's get together and start shaping our future collaboration. Inform us what support you need. Give us feedback. Send us your papers, Reviews and suggestions for Special Collections. On behalf of the editorial team I am looking forward to working with you, and I hope you will join us as a reader, author, or referee in 2022. Thank you for reading and for your continued support of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry!

Systems Chemistry Looking Forward

<i>ChemSystemsChem</i> – On the Up and Up

Ring the changes: ChemElectroChem is fully embracing the Open Science movement as it is now the first Chemistry Europe journal to make the transition from a hybrid to fully open access journal. It remains a key electrochemistry publication for the entire community. Read this years Editorial to find out more! At ChemElectroChem we ring the changes as we ring in the New Year! As you have hopefully heard, we are now a fully open access journal (see the Editorial that was published in our October issue)! From January 1st, 2023, all of our content is being published under a Creative Commons license. This means that our authors now retain copyright of their work and the new articles can be accessed immediately and freely, without a paywall. As we strive for Open Science, we are really happy to take this step, and now all new content will have the benefits associated with open access, such as greater visibility, increased downloads, higher citation rates and, most importantly, being more readily available to researchers around the globe to build upon those studies and advance the literature and scientific knowledge even further. As ChemElectroChem is no longer a subscription journal, all accepted articles are now subject to an article publication charge (APC), unless a waiver is applied. Compared to our previous open access option, our APC has decreased and is currently 2500 USD/2100 EUR/1900 GBP. Many funding bodies and research councils mandate open access publishing, and we ensure that we are fully compliant with these directives and try to make the process as seamless as possible. To this end and to ensure the straightforward coverage of APCs, Wiley has signed a large number of transformative agreements and offer a number of Wiley Open Access Accounts. For more information about APC coverage and open access options, please check the Wiley Author Services website and we encourage you to speak to you librarian for the most up-to-date information for your specific insititution. David received his B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He also obtained his Master's degree in Polymers and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the UPC, focusing on electroactive conducting polymers. He then carried out a post-doctoral research for two years at CEA-Grenoble (France) within the Nanowires for Energy Storage (NEST) project. Subsequently, he was recruited as a project manager at CEA in several research lines related to energy storage applications (supercapacitors and batteries). During that period, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt for Experienced Researchers fellowship at the University of Göttingen (Germany) in the field of ALD-based catalysts for hydrogen production. He obtained his French Habilitation from the University Grenoble Alpes (France) in 2019. His areas of expertise are a great fit for ChemElectroChem and we are pleased to have him on the team! At ChemElectroChem, we are passionate about our Special Collections and aim to bring together the electrochemistry-related fields with a series of celebratory collections, topical collections, and other themed collections dedicated to conferences or certain communities. In terms of our celebratory collections, we are honored to be working with two of our Early Career Advisory Board Members, Dr. Michelle Browne and Dr. Encarnación Torralba-Peñalver, on the Early Career Women in Electrochemistry collection, focusing on the work of talented women in electrochemistry, especially those still early in their career and already making a great impression within the field. The first manuscripts are online with more to come. In addition, if you would like to feature in this important collection, please do let us know and we would be very happy to send your contribution for external peer review! We were also very pleased to work with Robert Dryfe and Talia Jane Stockmann on the Hubert Girault Festchrift to celebrate Hubert turning 65 in February 2022, as well as with Carlo Santoro, Matteo Grattieri, Sofia Babanova, and Scott Calabrese Barton to create the Plamen Atanassov Festschrift to celebrate Plamen turning 60 in November 2022 (Figure 1). Both collections are already online, but new content is still being added (especially for Plamen's Festschrift), so please do check back regularly for more dedicated contributions. Another important celebration in 2022 was that of our Editorial Advisroy Board members who concluded their terms at the end of 2021. We invited our retiring Editorial Advisory Board Members to submit an article in recognition of the collaboration. And we are pleased to showcase those in our Past Board Members collection. Plamen Atanassov (left) and Hubert Girault (right) celebrated milestone birthdays in 2022. To showcase some of the most recent electrochemical research being performed in Italy and within international collaborations, Danilo Dini, Leonardo Mattiello, and Maria Assunta Navarra joined us as Guest Editors in collaboration with the latest annual meeting of the Electrochemical Division of the Italian Chemical Society, which took place in Orvieto on September 11–15, 2022, to put together the 2022 version of the Giornate dell'Elettrochimica Italiana (Italy) collection. We also joined forces with Ignasi Sirés, Manuel A. Rodrigo, Maria Gomez Mingot, and Edward P. L. Roberts to create a Special Collection for the Spain-France: Current Trends in Electrochemistry Workshop, which took place in Paris and brought together a group of electrochemists trained in Spain and France. Another Special Collection that is close to completion is that highlighting recent work by Latin American electrochemists in our Latin American Electrochemistry collection, Guest Edited by Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle, Nella Vargas-Barbosa, Benjamín Scharifker, and Ana-Sofía Varela. To round out our Special Collections of 2022, we have recently concluded a timely Special Collection on Electrochemical Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, Guest Edited by Mike Rose, Pallavi Singh, and Ruud Kortlever (Figure 2). Selected covers associated with recent Special Collections at ChemElectroChem. Along with some of our sister journals, we are also pleased to see the implementation of “Data Reporting Checklists” in our submission process. The research community has been growing steadily and, with it, so have the number of scientific discoveries and their subsequent publications. Although access to those publications has become easier, it is difficult to identify studies relevant to one's own research and to be certain whether the published data are based on the current best practices in the field, as reliability has become a well-known problem. Efforts to standardize experimental and reported practices are ongoing throughout the world; to support these efforts, we have developed checklists that provide an easily accessible summary of relevant data. What are these checklists? They summarize what we consider to be the minimum parameters that should be reported and disclosed in our articles. With the emphasis on “minimum”, the checklists have been designed to be as concise as possible, providing an overview of a manuscript at a glance: They are simple to fill in with data that should already be available in the manuscript. Check out the Author Guidelines on our homepage for latest versions, which can be freely downloaded. They also represent our first step in supporting the scientific community towards the realization of reporting standards. Why is this only the “first step”? This year we are planning to further roll out the checklists at Angewandte Chemie as well as the rest of the Chemistry Europe and ACES portfolios. Therefore, our checklists have been prepared in such a way that they fit any journal, regardless of the size, impact factor, and (to a large extent) journal scope. The first checklists cover batteries, supercapacitors, and solar cells. Further checklists (in catalysis and life sciences) are going to be published later in 2023, with even more to follow. To provide you with the best checklists and service, we depend on your feedback: If you think that important parameters are missing or some others could be improved, please let us know! Who prepared the checklists? These checklists were developed by highly experienced and dedicated Editors together with recognized experts in their fields, and we are extremely grateful for the constructive discussion, in particular, with Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua University) and Patrik Johansson (Chalmers University) for the battery checklist; Christoph Brabec and Osbel Almora (both University of Erlangen Nuremberg) as well as Nikos Kopidakis (NREL) for the solar cell checklist; and Thierry Brousse (University of Nantes) for the supercapacitor checklist. Our special thanks go to Volker Presser (INM Saarbrücken), who supported us in the preparation of both the supercapacitor and battery checklists. Who benefits? The checklists are beneficial for our Authors as well Reviewers. As an Author, the checklist lets you know exactly what data we expect in a publication. Keeping in mind that these are only minimal requirements, any further investigation will be beneficial for the quality and can/should be mentioned in the checklist. As a Reviewer, you will be able to quickly assess the performance and scope of a study and know which experiments have been performed before delving into the manuscript itself. Initially, the checklists will only be available for Editors and Reviewers but, at a later stage, they will be published alongside the manuscript, which should benefit the Open Data movement. Chemistry Europe, the association of 16 European chemical societies that co-own ChemElectroChem and its sister journals, is augmenting its journals portfolio with its most ambitious new launch: ChemistryEurope – the journal. ChemistryEurope, conceived as a high-quality, high-impact gold OA journal covering all areas of chemistry, will start in 2023 with the following three editors-in-chief who are already strongly connected to the Chemistry Europe family of journals as board members: Luisa De Cola (Università degli Studi di Milano and Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy). Expert for luminescent systems and nano-/porous structures for biomedical applications and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem as well as the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie. Ken Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan). Expert in organic synthesis and transition-metal catalysis and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Ive Hermans (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). Expert in sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering and member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of ChemCatChem and ChemSusChem. ChemistryEurope will feature as the new flagship journal in Chemistry Europe's publishing program, alongside Chemistry – A European Journal, the ChemXChem family, the open access titles led by ChemistryOpen, and all sister journals. As always, we welcome any input from all members of the electrochemistry community. We actively encourage you to get in touch with any feedback, critique or ideas. We very much look forward to hearing from you and wish you, your colleagues, and your families all the very best for 2023! —Kate— Dr. Kate Lawrence Editor-in-Chief ChemElectroChem

Encouraging collaboration: International Advisory Board member and former Editorial Board Co-Chair Michal Hocek introduces the Special Collection on Chemistry in the Czech Republic, and outlines how the multidisciplinary focus of ChemPlusChem promotes collaboration on many levels. This Special Collection was launched to honor the 100th monthly issue of ChemPlusChem, and features the best of the Czech chemical sciences, covering many interdisciplinary topics.

Happy 25th Anniversary, EurJOC!

New Members of the Editorial Board and International Advisory Board of <i>Angewandte Chemie</i>

Come together: Managing Editor Theresa Kueckmann reflects on the many facets of the community that supports the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. Each of us lives in a world of connections to other people, albeit of varying intensity, from strong connections to family and close friends to the smile of a stranger on the street. And these interactions have the power to change us, to brighten our day or broaden our horizons. One set of interactions has to do with the submitted manuscript, at which stage the author, referees and editor work together to help every manuscript fulfill its highest potential. This process of critique and revision is well recognized to improve the scientific quality of manuscripts. In the end, it serves to make the interaction with another group—the readers—more positive. Readers may seem to be an anonymous group, but their collective behavior in which papers they choose to read (Table 1), cite (Table 2), or share informs trends and provides a feedback loop for editors, referees and authors. Authors and readers also have many overlapping interests, such as the fast publication of the newest research. At AsianJOC, we work hard to serve these interests as best we can. We were the first Wiley-VCH chemistry journal to publish accepted articles before copy editing and proofing, and we have continuously improved our service to make the articles available an average of 30 days after submission and to give the authors more control over the files and the format. The result is the publication of some 200 papers in 2016 from authors around the globe (Figure 1). Grignard Reactions in Cyclopentyl Methyl Ether Shoji Kobayashi, Keisuke Shibukawa, Yuta Miyaguchi, Araki Masuyama Full Paper, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5, 636 The Development and Application of Sulfur Dioxide Surrogates in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Edward J. Emmett, Michael C. Willis Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4, 602 Nucleophilic Nitrenoids Through π-Acid Catalysis: Providing a Common Basis for Rapid Access into Diverse Nitrogen Heterocycles Paul W. Davies, Miguel Garzón Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4, 694 Diverse Applications of Nitrones for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds Laura L. Anderson Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5, 9 Catalytic Methods for Imine Synthesis Rajendra D. Patil, Subbarayappa Adimurthy Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2, 726 Recent Advances in Diversity Oriented Synthesis Through Isatin-based Multicomponent Reactions Yunyun Liu, Hang Wang, Jieping Wan Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2, 374 A Closer Look at Aryne Chemistry: Details that Remain Mysterious Chunrui Wu, Feng Shi Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2, 116 Synthesis of Pyrroles, Indoles, and Carbazoles through Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C−H Functionalization Naohiko Yoshikai, Ye We Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2, 446 Synthesis of Chiral Olefin Ligands and their Application in Asymmetric Catalysis Xiangqing Feng, Haifeng Du Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2012, 1, 204 Pillar[n]arenes—A Novel, Highly Promising Class of Macrocyclic Host Molecules Derong Cao, Herbert Meier Focus Review, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2014, 3, 244 Regional distribution of papers published in 2016. Another set of interactions involves the members of the journal's Editorial and International Advisory Board. Through their involvement, these outstanding members of the broader scientific community help develop and grow the journal by their supportive advocacy. This year has brought some changes to the journal boards. We bid founding Editorial Board co-chair Deqing Zhang farewell and thank him for all of his efforts during the early years of the journal. The other two founding co-chairs, Keiji Maruoka and Sung Ho Kang, will continue in their roles, and we thank them for their outstanding support. They will be joined by Jian Pei of Peking University, with whom we look forward to a productive collaboration. We are pleased to announce that Xiao-Bing Lu, Dalian University of Technology, and Yixin Lu, National University of Singapore, have joined the Editorial Board, while Zhenfeng Xi and Shu-Li You along with Prof. Zhang have shifted their involvement to the International Advisory Board. The new members of the Editorial Board are introduced with brief biographies below. Our deepest thanks goes to the board co-chairs, the Editorial Board members, and the individuals on the International Advisory Board. They are the true motors driving the AsianJOC. We will celebrate the journal's fifth anniversary in July 2017 with a special issue featuring contributions from these outstanding scientists! The journal editorial office has the privilege of being embedded in an environment of sister journals with far-reaching experience. The benefits take many forms, one example of which is the joint special issue on photoredox catalysis to be published in March, 2017, together with our sister journal European Journal of Organic Chemistry and guest-edited by Professor Burkhard König of Regensburg University. Cooperation with other journals often takes less tangible forms, for example in the continual exchange of ways to improve journal workflows, in the cooperative upholding of high ethical standards, and by offering authors the chance to transfer their manuscript to a different journal if it turns out not to be a good fit for the initially selected title. At conferences, we deepen connections to board members, authors and referees and extend the journal's interactions to those not immediately connected to it in one of these roles. We also take pride in supporting the next generation of organic chemists by recognizing their outstanding work with conference poster prizes (Figure 2). Look for us in 2017 at the Organometallic Chemistry for Organic Synthesis (OMCOS) meeting in Seoul, the European Conference on Organic Synthesis in Cologne, the Asian Chemical Congress and Royal Australian Chemistry Institute 100th anniversary conference in Melbourne, and the congress of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry in Regensburg, Germany. Managing Editor Theresa Kueckmann presents a poster prize award. Of course, there are many more interactions which influence the journal and help to shape its place in the community. To discuss all of them would be an undertaking much larger than the space of this editorial permits. And so I conclude by thanking all of you for the role each of you plays in making the journal what it is, through each individual interaction, and by wishing you a great start to the new year 2017! Theresa Kueckmann Managing Editor Xiao-Bing Lu earned his Ph.D. from Dalian University of Technology in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Ren He. In the same year, he began his independent career at State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, where he is currently full professor. He has authored over 100 scientific publications and has received awards including Young Chemist Award (Chinese Chemical Society, 2005), Natural Science Award (the Ministry of Education of China, 2005 and 2015), Young Teacher Award (Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, 2005), Outstanding Young Scientist Fund award (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2006) and Changjiang Professorship (the Ministry of Education of China, 2011). He is interested in the catalytic transformation of carbon dioxide and in polymerization catalysis with a focus on polymer stereochemistry control. Yixin Lu studied chemistry and received his B.Sc. from Fudan University and M.Sc. from Dalian University of Technology. He continued his graduate studies in Canada and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of George Just from McGill University in 2000. He then carried out his postdoctoral research with Peter W. Schiller at Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, and subsequently worked as an RCMS fellow with Ryoji Noyori at Nagoya University. In September 2003, he started his independent career and joined the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is now a full professor. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including Asian Core Program (ACP) Lectureship awards to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan (2009–2016); Young/Outstanding Scientist Award from Faculty of Science, NUS (2009, 2013); GSK–SNIC Award in Organic Chemistry (2013); and Dean's Chair Professorship (2013). His research is focused on synthetic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry. One of his key research interests is asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, particularly those processes mediated by small organic molecules.

A Time of Change

From deception to plagiarism, the range of unethical behavior in the publishing practices of scientists is broad. However, scientists should not all be tarred with the same brush. This theme is at the heart of the Editorial that also illuminates some happier events, such as the nomination of new members of the Editorial and International Advisory Boards.

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