Happy 25th Anniversary, EurJOC!

Nürnberg: A Showcase for European Chemistry

Vive la Chimie

The European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry are proud to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The first volume of both journals appeared in the same year, 1998, and during the last two decades these two “twin” journals have worked closely together. In this spirit, we bring you a joint editorial to introduce our very special Anniversary Issue. With the vision to create strong European journals focusing on the two core disciplines in chemistry, inorganic and organic chemistry, eight European chemical societies merged their national journals in this landmark year to form the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. The amalgamation of more European national chemical society journals followed soon after and consolidated this initiative under the ownership of ChemPubSoc Europe (Figure 1). Today, as their journals, EurJIC and EurJOC contribute significantly to the income of 13 of these European chemical societies. Our 20th anniversary is not only a perfect opportunity to look back to the start of the journal and the journey that we've been through, but also to look into the future. So what better time to have a special issue that encompasses this very theme: Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of EurJIC and EurJOC! With this is mind, we invited pioneers of the journals who appeared in the first volume and our most prolific and most-cited authors whose efforts have been instrumental in the success of the journals. The rising stars were selected with the help of our Board Members, and as excellent young researchers in their respective fields, they will help to shape the journals. The invitations were met with great enthusiasm – our communities did not let us down, so much so that we are able to present a collection of about 40 high-quality papers each in bumper double issues. The issues include a good balance of Microreviews, Full Papers and Communications, covering the full spectrum of inorganic and organic chemistry. Although our journals are co-owned by the European societies, our authorship and readership have never been restricted to Europe: we are truly international as is reflected by our motto “Made in Europe for the World”. And this issue is no different as can be seen by the contributions from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia! Of all the outstanding contributions, we are particularly pleased to have a Microreview from Luis Oro, the President of EurJIC and EurJOC for ChemPubSoc Europe, submitted together with Manuel Iglesias. Three of EurJIC's previous Chairmen of the Editorial Board, João Rocha, Rinaldo Poli and Bas de Bruin, have also contributed excellent papers in celebration of the anniversary. Jean Rodriguez, in a paper together with Damien Bonne, shows his support as current member of EurJOC's Editorial Board. We are proud to have a contribution by Sílvia Osuna who is the winner of the 2017 EuCheMS Young Investigator Award. One paper that truly embodies the past, present and future of EurJOC is one by Rolf Huisgen, Hans-Ulrich Reissig and Martin Breugst, which brings together three generations of organic chemists. Also taking the anniversary theme to heart and by tying the past into the present, Christoph Marschner directly links his contribution in this issue to his paper in the first issue of EurJIC. It is only right that we use this milestone to give credit to those that have contributed to the success of the journals over the past two decades. We are grateful to Heinrich Nöth, Ivano Bertini, Jan Reedijk, João Rocha, Rinaldo Poli and Bas de Bruin who served as past Chairmen of EurJIC and to EurJOC's past Chairmen Klaus Hafner, Henning Hopf, Max Malacria and Cesare Gennari for their hard work and service. To the current Chairmen for EurJIC and EurJOC, Lutz Gade and Burkhard König, respectively, we wish to express our sincere appreciation for their support and fresh ideas. We look forward to our future collaborations! Our heartfelt thanks also go out to our mentors Karen Hindson and Haymo Ross for their dedication to EurJIC and EurJOC, and who for the last 15 years have been directing, shaping and developing the journals. With their vision, EurJIC and EurJOC have achieved their status as leaders in their respective fields. We thank them for their encouragement and trust. We hope to continue to be innovative and to take the journals to further heights, whilst still bringing you the best of inorganic and organic chemistry. And finally, the success of the journals without doubt has to be attributed to the authors and referees, who are the key players. With their great contributions and hard work, they are the driving force that help maintain the high standards of both journals. Preeti and Anne

Hungarian Rhapsody: 1st Movement Comes to a Close

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

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!

Extensive coverage: 1 Chemistry—A European Journal has provided its readers with crystal-clear top-quality chemistry from around the world since it was founded 15 years ago. Originally launched as a monthly journal for Full Papers, Chemistry—A European Journal has since made the successful transition to a weekly publication, offering its readers in addition a wide range of article types, including Concepts, Communications, Reviews, and Minireviews. The growth over this period in terms of articles published is truly remarkable (see Figure 1): in 2009 we published 1435 top-quality articles on over 13 500 pages. In 2008 we launched the Communications section of the journal; in the first year we published 167 Communications. Last year the number of Communications published more than doubled to 370, and the number of Full Papers published also grew by more than 6 % to over 1000. Growth of Chemistry—A European Journal in terms of the number of articles since its launch in 1995. The move to weekly publication has been accompanied by not only a marked increase of over 30 % in the number of submissions to the journal, but also more importantly by a 22 % increase in the number of peer-reviewed published articles. Pleasingly, the Impact Factor for Chemistry—A European Journal rose for the sixth consecutive year to a new record level of 5.454 in 2009. Internationalization: The global influence of Chemistry—A European Journal is reflected not only by the number of submissions, but also by the fact that we received papers from over 60 countries in 2009. The major increases in the number of submissions from Asia came from Taiwan (+96 %), South Korea (+63 %), China (+29 %), Japan (+27 %), and India (+38 %). In Europe the main growth came from Denmark (93 %), Italy (+35 %), Spain (+34 %), Switzerland (+34 %), France (+22 %), and Germany (+20 %). There was also notable growth in the number of submissions from North America (USA +31%; Canada +52 %), and in the Rest of the World there was a dramatic increase in the number of submissions from Australia (80 %). Growing influence: Over the last 10 years the global distribution of submissions and accepted papers has altered considerably (see Figure 2). Chemistry—A European Journal, like most other top ranking journals, has witnessed the growing influence of chemistry from Asia, both in terms of output and improving quality. This is also reflected in the increasing number of papers from Asian universities that appear regularly among the most downloaded publications in the journal. Internationalization of Chemistry—A European Journal: regional breakdown of papers submitted (right) and correspondence authors (left) of papers published in Chemistry—A European Journal in 2001, 2005, and 2009. Submitted data for 2009 extrapolated from data on November 30, 2009. Our sister journal, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, is testimony to this growing influence. The announcement of its first impact factor of 4.197 in 2009 was followed by a dramatic increase in the number of top papers submitted from the partner societies. The ACES partnership behind Chemistry—An Asian Journal, which also supports Chemistry—A European Journal, also gained a new member during the course of 2009, with the Chemical Society of Vietnam joining the growing ranks of its society partners. There are now 12 member chemical societies of the ACES partnership. These together with the 14 members of ChemPubSoc Europe provide a further illustration of the strength of the commitment of Wiley-VCH to promoting chemical sciences and chemical societies. The ChemPubSoc Europe family of journals, which encompasses 1 the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ChemPhysChem, ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, and ChemSusChem, was extended in 2009 by the addition of its newest member ChemCatChem. This journal has made an excellent start and the first issues are freely available online (see www.chemcatchem.org for details). ChemPubSoc Europe itself is expanding to include “Supporting Societies”, the first of which is the Slovenská chemická spoločnost' (SCHS).1 A Nobel occasion: As part of the celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of our sister journals ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem, there will be a symposium entitled “Frontiers of Chemistry: From Molecules to Systems” at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris on May 21, 2010. 1 This special event will feature lectures from four Nobel Laureates: Gerhard Ertl, Jean-Marie Lehn, Roger Tsien, and the 2009 winner Ada Yonath. Further details of the program and the other keynote speakers can be found under www.chembiophyschem.org. European showcase for chemistry: Europe will again be a prominent stage in the world of chemistry in 2010 with the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress (Chemistry—The Creative Force) providing a notable highlight of the upcoming year. The event, which is being organized by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) on behalf of EuCheMS, will take place in Nürnberg, Germany, between August 29 and September 2, 2010. 1 The Congress will cover seven main topics, each of which will host three symposia: Innovative Materials; Resources and Environment; Supramolecular Systems; Catalysis; Molecular Life Sciences; Analysis, Manipulation and Simulation; and Advances in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. The program, which features top speakers from all around the world, has been put together by François Diederich and Andreas Hirsch, the chairmen of the event, and the 21 symposia conveners. Further details can be found under www.euchems- congress2010.org. Special effects: As part of our continued mission to promote the aims and science of our society partners, we produced a special issue marking the 100th anniversary of the Società Chimica Italiana (Italian Chemistry Society). In addition to numerous Communications and Full Papers from top Italian chemists, the issue featured some fascinating historical articles about the key figures in the development of Italian chemistry and the Italian Chemical Society, as well as a guest editorial from Professor Luigi Campanella, the President of the society. 1 The special issue was also made available at a conference (“The Centenary”) in Padova to mark the event. It proved to be highly successful, and we would to thank all Italian authors who contributed. We also produced a special issue to mark the 65th birthday of Professor Yitzhak Apeloig, whose research interests span organic to silicon and computational chemistry. Professor Apeloig, incidentally, will be giving one of the lectures at the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Nürnberg. The place to be: In the first 15 years of Chemistry—A European Journal, we have published 357 issues of the journal, in which over 9000 papers have appeared: 467 Concepts and Reviews, 8112 Full Papers, and 437 Communications. Over the course of this period we delivered our readers over 92 000 pages packed with top-quality chemistry. The most cited papers in this 15-year period are given in Table 1. Top of the class at present is a paper by Frank Caruso entitled “Hollow Capsule Processing through Colloidal Templating and Self-Assembly”. A fairer assessment of the citations of the papers we have published can be made, however, if one considers the average number of citations per year (see Table 2). In this case the paper by Younan Xia and co-workers, entitled “Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures: The Case of Silver” was determined to be the most prominent. The other papers featured in these two tables illustrate the diversity and quality of the papers published in Chemistry—A European Journal. Title Authors Citation Cites Hollow Capsule Processing through Colloidal Templating and Self-Assembly F. Caruso Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 413 464 Maximizing Synthetic Efficiency: Multi-component Transformations Lead the Way H. Bienayme et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 3321 418 Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Virtual Combinatorial Libraries J.-M. Lehn Chem. Eur. J. 1999, 5, 2455 379 Organic Fluorine Hardly ever Accepts Hydrogen Bonds J. D. Dunitz, R. Taylor Chem. Eur. J. 1997, 3, 89 359 Light-Triggered Molecular Devices—Photochemical Switching of Optical and Electrochemical Properties in Molecular Wire Type Diarylethene Species J. M. Lehn et al. Chem. Eur. J. 1995, 1, 275 336 Palladacycles: Efficient New Catalysts for the Heck Vinylation of Aryl Halides W. A. Herrmann et al. Chem. Eur. J. 1997, 3, 1357 313 Functional Dendrimers: Unique Biological Mimics D. K. Smith, F. Diederich Chem. Eur. J. 1998, 4, 1353 312 Double-Stranded Helices and Molecular Zippers Assembled from Single-Stranded Coordination Polymers Directed by Supramolecular Interactions X.-M. Chen, G. F. Liu Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 4811 298 Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures: The Case of Silver Y. Xia et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 454 290 Synthesis and Characterization of Ion-Exchangeable Titanate Nanotubes X.-M. Sun, Y.-D. Li Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 2229 290 Title Authors Citation Average cites per year Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures: The Case of Silver Y. Xia et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 454 58.0 Hollow Capsule Processing through Colloidal Templating and Self-Assembly F. Caruso Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 413 46.4 Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Structures, and Gas Sorption Properties of Pillared Square Grid Nets Based on Paddle-wheel Motifs: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Porous Materials K. Kim et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 3521 46.2 Organocatalysis Mediated by (Thio)urea Derivatives S. J. Connon Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 5418 44.3 Phosphorescent Dyes for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes P. T. Chou, Y. Chi Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 380 42.7 Maximizing Synthetic Efficiency: Multi-component Transformations Lead the Way H. Bienayme et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 3321 41.8 Synthesis and Characterization of Ion-Exchangeable Titanate Nanotubes X.-M. Sun, Y.-D. Li Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 2229 41.3 Detection and Amplification of Chirality by Helical Polymers E. Yashima et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2004, 10, 42 40.3 Double-Stranded Helices and Molecular Zippers Assembled from Single-Stranded Coordination Polymers Directed by Supramolecular Interactions X.-M. Chen, G. F. Liu Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 4811 37.3 Molecular-Scale Logic Gates A. P. de Silva, N. D. McClenaghan Chem. Eur. J. 2004, 10, 574 37.2 Metal Nuclearity Modulated Four-, Six-, and Eight-Connected Entangled Frameworks Based on Mono-, Bi-, and Trimetallic Cores as Nodes E. B. Wang, Z.-M. Su et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 2680 36.8 What's hot: A selection of the top 5 downloaded Full Papers and Communications, as well as the top 10 downloaded Concepts and Reviews from 2009 is given in Tables 3–, , 5. The data in the tables again illustrate the international appeal and authorship of the journal, as well as the diverse range of topics covered. The importance and interest in catalysis is clearly apparent from the list of the top 5 downloaded Communications in Table 3. This serves as a further illustration of the perfect timing of the decision by ChemPubSoc Europe to launch ChemCatChem. Title Authors Citation Asymmetric Iminium Ion Catalysis with a Novel Bifunctional Primary Amine Thiourea: Controlling Adjacent Quaternary and Tertiary Stereocenters P. Melchiorre et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 7846 Iron(III)-Catalyzed and Air-Mediated Tandem Reaction of Aldehydes, Alkynes and Amines: An Efficient Approach to Substituted Quinolines Y.-Q. Tu et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 6332 Highly Enantio- and Diastereoselective Organocatalytic Desymmetrization of Prochiral Cyclohexanones by Simple Direct Aldol Reaction Catalyzed by Proline R. Rios et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 6564 Iron-Catalyzed Ligand-Free Three-Component Coupling Reactions of Aldehydes, Terminal Alkynes, and Amines L. Wang et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 2045 Improved Palladium-Catalyzed Sonogashira Coupling Reactions of Aryl Chlorides M. Beller at al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1329 Title Authors Citation Organocatalytic Domino Michael–Knoevenagel Condensation Reaction for the Synthesis of Optically Active 3-Diethoxyphosphoryl-2-oxocyclohex-3-enecarboxylates K. -A. Jørgensen et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 3093 Total Synthesis of Rapamycin S. V. Ley et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 2874 Novel Zinc Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Synthesis and Spectral, Electrochemical, and Photovoltaic Properties C.-Y. Yeh, E. W.-G. Diau et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1403 One-Step Synthesis of Stoichiometrically Defined Metal Oxide Nanoparticles at Room Temperature M. A. Morris et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 440 Bright, Color-Tunable Fluorescent Dyes in the Vis/NIR Region: Establishment of New “Tailor-Made” Multicolor Fluorophores Based on Borondipyrromethene K. Suzuki et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1096 Title Authors Citation Metal-Catalyzed One-Step Synthesis: Towards Direct Alternatives to Multistep Heterocycle and Amino Acid Derivative Formation B. A. Arndtsen Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 302 Artificial Enzyme Catalysis Controlled and Driven by Light G. Knör Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 568 Do We Understand the Recyclability of Ionic Liquids? Y-M. Zhang, H.-P. Wang et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1804 Construction of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles by CH Bond Functionalization M. Lautens, P. Thansandote Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5874 Use of Tetradentate Monoanionic Ligands for Stabilizing Reactive Metal Complexes J. Arnold, W. A. Chomitz Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 2020 Diels–Alder “Click” Chemistry in Designing Dendritic Macromolecules A. K. Kakkar, G. Franc Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5630 Applications of Multicomponent Reactions to the Synthesis of Diverse Heterocyclic Scaffolds S. F. Martin, J. D. Sunderhaus Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1300 Structure Formation Principles and Reactivity of Organolithium Compounds C. Strohmann et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 3320 Radical and Radical-Ionic Multicomponent Processes Y. Landais, E. Godineau Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 3044 Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of Linear β-Amino Alcohols J. Cossey et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1064 The right mix: A summary of the top 10 downloaded articles from 2008 (Table 6) reveals that all the different article types, regardless of length, are attractive to our readers. The only important measure is the quality of the work presented. Title Authors Citation Type One-Pot Oxidative Esterification and Amidation of Aldehydes C. Wolf, K. Ekoue-Kovi Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 6302 Review New Architectures for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells J. T. Hupp et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 4458 Concept The Synthesis of Azadirachtin: A Potent Insect Antifeedant S. V. Ley et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 10683 Full Paper Iron-Catalyzed N-Arylations of Amides C. Bolm et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 3527 Communication Recent Developments in Enantioselective Gold(I) Catalysis R. A. Widenhofer Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 5382 Concept Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Phosphanes D. S. Glueck Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 10683 Concept Classical Reagents: New Surprises in Palladium-Catalyzed CC Coupling Reactions T. Skrydstrup, A. T. Lindhardt Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 8756 Concept New Strategies for the Synthesis of Pyrimidine Derivatives M. Movassaghi, M. D. Hill Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 6836 Concept Recent Synthetic Applications of Manganese in Organic Synthesis J. M. Concellón et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 10184 Concept Facile Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles with Narrow Size Distribution by Using AuCl or AuBr as the Precursor Y. Xia et al. Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 1584 Full Paper Contented chemists: Over the last 15 years we have continually improved the service we offer to our referees, readers, and authors. We have implemented many novel innovations, such as Concepts, the online submission service, VIP papers, Frontispieces, and EarlyView, all of which have been well documented. These have helped to forge strong bonds and to encourage authors to publish their best work with us repeatedly on a regular basis. A list of the most prolific authors in the history of Chemistry—A European Journal is given in Table 7. A more recent reflection, which summarizes data for the last five years is given in Table 8; the most recent papers from several of these authors appear in this issue, for example, work by Atsuhiro Osuka et al. on phosphorus complexes of the first expanded isophlorins. These data provide further confirmation of the international appeal of the journal as well as the diversity of the fields which it covers. Among the newest improvements are inside covers, additional hot topics and virtual issues, as well as an effective network for facilitating the publication of articles within our family of journals. Name Country Number of articles J. Fraser Stoddart USA 62 Jean-Marie Lehn France 61 José Barluenga Spain 42 François Diederich Switzerland 38 David N. Reinhoudt The Netherlands 35 Chi-Ming Che China 36 Helmut Schwarz Germany 36 Gernot Frenking Germany 34 Armin de Meijere Germany 34 Vincenzo Balzani Italy 33 Herbert Waldmann Germany 32 Lutz F. Tietze Germany 31 Matthias Beller Germany 30 Klaus Müllen Germany 30 K. C. Nicolaou USA 30 Dirk M. Guldi Germany 29 Alois Fürstner Germany 28 E. W. Meijer The Netherlands 28 Atsuhiro Osuka Japan 28 Detlef Schröder Czech Republic 28 Name Country Number of articles Atsuhiro Osuka Japan 23 José Barluenga Spain 22 Gernot Frenking Germany 22 Jean-Marie Lehn France 20 Armin de Meijere Germany 18 François Diederich Switzerland 18 Chi-Ming Che China 17 Alois Fürstner Germany 17 Dirk M. Guldi Germany 17 Matthias Beller Germany 16 Helmut Schwarz Germany 16 Luis Echegoyen USA 15 Shunichi Fukuzumi Japan 15 Min Shi China 15 Raymond Ziessel France 15 Jean-Claude G. Bünzli Switzerland 14 Jesús Jiménez-Barbero Spain 14 Detlef Schröder Czech Republic 14 Jan-E. Bäckvall Sweden 13 Osamu Ito Japan 13 Ingo Krossing Germany 13 Tetsuro Majima Japan 13 E. W. Meijer The Netherlands 13 Inside story: In an effort to provide increased visibility for more of our authors we also now feature an inside cover. The articles chosen to appear on the inside cover are highlighted on our news page and in our special cover gallery on the journal homepage. The inside cover for this issue featuring work by Michael Organ et al. is shown below. CH activation has now been added to the list of hot topics on the journal homepage (www.chemeurj.org). The other topics featured on this list currently include organocatalysis, click chemistry, mesoporous materials/metal–organic frameworks, RNA, gold, and sustainable chemistry. Virtual issues are also available on topics such as solar cells, liquid crystals, surfaces and interfaces, magnetic materials, and organic electronics. These lists provide the reader with related content from the family of European Journals, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, Angewandte Chemie, the family of Macromolecular journals, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Small. Welcome to 2010: The first issue of year features a Review article by Karl-Anker Jørgensen and co-workers1 on organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of organophosphorus compounds (p. 28) and a fascinating mix of Communications and Full Papers from top authors around the world. 1 The cover highlights work by Gema de la Torre, Dirk M. Guldi, Tomás Torres et al. on lanthanide(III) bis(phthalocyaninato)–C60 dyads (p. 114). The inside cover illustrates research by Chao-Jun Li, Michael Organ and co-workers on the microwave-assisted continuous-flow organic synthesis of propargyl amines (p. 126), and the frontispiece at the beginning of the Full Paper section features work by Kay Severin et al. on cross-reactive sensor arrays for the detection of peptides (p. 104). Papers from members of the Editorial Board also feature prominently in this first issue. Steven V. Ley et al. report on the synthesis of yne–ones by using modular flow reactors (p. 89), C. N. R. Rao describe work on the graphene analogue BCN (p. 149), François Diederich et al. discuss mechanistic work related to the formation of intramolecular charge–transfer chromophores (p. 202), Pekka Pyykkö and his colleague Björn O. Roos investigate the bonding trends in molecular compounds of lanthanides (p. 270), Chi-Ming Che's group together with that of Hartmut Yersin report on phosphorescent platinum(II) Schiff base complexes (p. 233), David Milstein and colleagues discuss the effect of CO on the oxidative addition of arene CH bonds by cationic rhodium complexes (p. 328), Barry M. Trost's group report on catalytic double stereoinduction in asymmetric allylic alkylation of oxindoles (p. 296), and Claudio Toniolo et al. describe the total synthesis of the hexadecapeptide integramide A (p. 316). Thanks: Finally I would like to take this opportunity to thank our dedicated referees and Editorial Board members for all their hard work behind the scenes. Without their help and advice Chemistry—A European Journal would not have succeeded in becoming so successful and growing so successfully over the last 15 years. Together we look forward to providing our readers with even more cutting-edge research from the world of chemistry and its related disciplines in the coming years.1 Neville Compton, Editor

<i>Angewandte Chemie</i> and Catalysis

Rarely has a concept gained prominence in scientific and everyday discourse as rapidly as sustainability. A decade ago the term was in customary use only among forest rangers, to whom it meant forest management, whereby one should not log more wood than can grow back. The chemical industry has long understood the importance of sustainable management of its resources and the exploration of alternative sources, and academic research has also seized the challenge presented by dwindling fossil fuels and raw materials. In Europe, these efforts are coordinated by the initiative SusChem (sustainable chemistry). “Here is oil! Oil is here! Piston-lubricating oil is here and that which lights the towns”. Thus wrote Bertolt Brecht in a lyric poem three-quarters of a century ago. And today oil remains the resource for energy and materials. Even if one considers that metals play a large role in materials, their extraction and processing require a vast amount of energy. Sustainability in chemistry means the pursuit and utilization of resources other than oil. As an energy source, oil can be substituted by nuclear and solar energy, along with wind, tidal, and hydropower. In particular, the increased use of solar energy, which in many respects would be the most attractive energy source, still requires much research: photocatalysis, photovoltaics, photosynthesis, and the many further forms of “photo” research. The environmentally conscious use of coal must be stepped up; the safe generation, storage, and transport of hydrogen are problems which chemists must work on, not to mention the challenges of carbon dioxide chemistry. Using renewable resources as significant sources of energy and raw materials, but without impairing food production in the process, is a further challenge. And the list can easily be extended! Some solutions to these issues are quickly branded as utopian, but we should not forget what was said of oil 200 years ago at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg: “Oil is a worthless excretion of the Earth—a sticky liquid that stinks and cannot possibly be put to use.”1 It is therefore not surprising that the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society, GDCh) made this topic the central theme of the “Science Forum 2007” (Wissenschaftsforum 2007), the biannual conference from September 16 to 19 in Ulm, Germany. The aptly titled conference “Energy, Materials, and Synthesis” will feature plenary lectures on, for example, “Sustainable Energy Supply” (A. Voß) and “New Materials for the Efficient Use of Thermal Energy” (M. Jansen), and there will be symposia on “Chemistry and Materials for Tomorrow's Energy Supply” and “Energy and Material Flow in Civil Engineering”. At the commencement of the conference, the future of chemistry will no doubt also be addressed in the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Lecture, which will be held by George Whitesides on “Rethinking What Chemistry Does”. Incidentally, an eminently readable essay that he wrote on the future of chemistry was published in Angewandte Chemie in 2004: “Assumptions: Taking Chemistry in New Directions”.2 So, we'll see you in Ulm—there are still some places available! The issue in which this editorial appears—in time for the Ulm conference—contains a Review on “Sustainable Concepts in Olefin Metathesis”, which is a title that would not have existed a few years ago. The embodiment of sustainable chemistry is no doubt catalysis in all its varieties: heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, bio-, photo-, and electrocatalysis. In the first half of this year, nearly 20 % of the articles in Angewandte Chemie had the word catalysis (in all its variants) in their title! And Issue 38 will be devoted entirely to this topic. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the company Süd-Chemie, the beginnings of which go back to none other than Justus von Liebig, Angewandte Chemie is publishing a special thematic issue on catalysis, as catalysts comprise the most important operational division of this venerable enterprise and represent the key to future developments in chemistry. The two Reviews in that issue are titled “Synergies between Bio- and Oil Refineries for the Production of Fuels from Biomass” (A. Corma et al.) and “Liquid-Phase Catalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons to Fuels and Chemicals” (J. Dumesic et al.), and they describe research results that could not better represent sustainable chemistry. Both Reviews could well have adorned the first issue of ChemSusChem, which is scheduled to appear at the beginning of 2008. The results of chemical research that are needed for sustainable energy and raw materials for humanity are published in many journals. Angewandte Chemie will naturally continue to concern itself with this theme, as it did, for example, at the beginning of the year with the article “The Future of Energy Supply: Challenges and Opportunities”3 and indeed as it does with many contributions in each issue. But every movement in research has required a vocal medium of its own to strengthen its inherent vitality. ChemSusChem—the name aims to evoke the European platform SusChem (see above)—publishes, as do the sister journals ChemBioChem, ChemMedChem, and ChemPhysChem, both short and long original articles along with reviews of every form and essays on all topics that address chemistry and sustainability with regard to raw materials and energy resources. The first contributions have already been received! The concept “sustainability”, as mentioned above, is used ubiquitously—why then not speak of “sustainable publishing”? ChemSusChem is an excellent case in point: Just as one should not cut down more trees than can grow back, one should also not create more new journals than old ones are discontinued, as no sector can realistically sustain too much of a good thing. This principle could serve as an imperative for sustainable publishing. The Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) will discontinue the journal Annali di Chimica, which was founded in 1911 and more recently published by Wiley-VCH, at the end of this year to make room for ChemSusChem. The founding societies of the new journal will be the SCI and the GDCh, and as its sister journal, ChemSusChem will initially be published in collaboration with Angewandte Chemie. This method guarantees from the start excellent quality and a wide circulation, as all institutional subscribers to Angewandte Chemie will also receive ChemSusChem for at least the first year. The new journal will be operated through the concerted efforts of the editorial staff, an International Advisory Board, and an Editorial Board, the latter of which is headed by Matthias Beller (Rostock, Germany), Gabriele Centi (Messina, Italy), and Daniel G. Nocera (Cambridge, USA). For more information, visit the journal homepage at: www.chemsuschem.org. ChemSusChem is the newest member of the family of European chemistry journals which are published by the Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EuChemSoc) and with which Chemistry – An Asian Journal, published by the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES), became affiliated last year. 2007 marks the 10th volume of both the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, and if one takes a moment to compare how things stood for the predecessor journals in their final year of existence and where the European journals stand today (see Tables 1 and 2), then one can absolutely speak of a sustainable development—especially when one recognizes that from 13 national journals of only regional scope, seven European journals (including ChemSusChem) have been created that are highly regarded the whole world over. The highest Impact Factor for the predecessor journals was 1.8, the lowest among the European journals is now 2.8, and Chemistry – A European Journal has an Impact Factor of over 5! On the basis of such a strong result, great things can be expected from Chemistry – An Asian Journal. After all, 1724 pages were published in the first 12 months in the Asian “Chemistry”, while the European “Chemistry” published “only” just over 1000 pages in the same period 12 years ago. Final year Last IF Pages in last volume Chem. Ber. 1996 1.774 1646 Liebigs Ann. 1996 1.303 2216 Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas 1996 1.511 548 Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1997 0.786 1082 Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg. 1997 0.473 836 Gazz. Chim. Ital. 1997 0.891 850 An. Quim. 1998 0.312 370 J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol. 1999 0.45 1634 ACH – Models Chem. 2000 0.571 880 Farmaco 2005 0.79 996 Ann. Chim. 2007 0.516 790[a] IF for 2006 Pages in 2006 Chem. Eur. J. 5.015 9422 Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2.704 5164 Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2.769 5602 ChemBioChem 4.100 2054 ChemPhysChem 3.45 2606 ChemMedChem – 1408 When speaking of sustainable publishing, one has to think these days about open access. For over three centuries, scientific publishing has maintained a sustainable circulation of scientific findings and has mastered the many challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the amount of scientific information on the one hand and by an astounding advance in technology on the other. Under a movement which is certainly derived from good intentions but masked behind the illusionary promise of a catchphrase like open access, would things really run more (cost-)efficiently over the long term? Angewandte Chemie itself can certainly look back on a sustainable development: Next year the journal will be 120 years old, and the International Edition will turn 50 in 2011! Under the motto “quality first” Angewandte has improved its performance figures year after year: the number of submitted and published manuscripts, the international scope (Figures 1–1, 2, 3), the Impact Factor and Immediacy Index, online downloads, and the breadth of its scientific scope; today Angewandte Chemie receives articles not only from chemistry institutions and companies, but also from academic and industrial research centers from the biological sciences, engineering sciences, and physics. Thus, a comparison with the top journals of other disciplines is now permissible (Figure 4). Regional distribution of Communications submitted between 1995 and 2007; * denotes extrapolated figures on the basis of the first six calendar months. Distribution of Communications submitted from Western Europe between 1995 and 2007; * denotes extrapolated figures on the basis of the first six calendar months. Distribution of Communications submitted from South and East Asia between 1995 and 2007; * denotes extrapolated figures on the basis of the first six calendar months. Trends in the Impact Factor from 2002 to 2006; source: Institute of Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA. The recent increase in Angewandte Chemie's Impact Factor to over 10 is not making life any easier for the editorial staff: The number of submitted manuscripts will continue to climb. In July 2007, we received, for the first time ever, more than 500 Communications within one calendar month (not to mention Reviews, Highlights, Book Reviews, etc.), which means that in spite of the growth in the number of articles published, even more articles will have to be rejected. Thus, we must ask our referees to take a more critical approach to their evaluations, and we ask our authors to be more self-critical and to be even more understanding that we cannot possibly accept all manuscripts submitted to us—to be realistic only about 25 %! This for all intents and purposes positive development of Angewandte Chemie has only been possible thanks to the tireless efforts of our dedicated editorial staff,4 thanks to the sound assistance of our distinguished Editorial Board and esteemed International Advisory Board, as well as thanks to the help of innumerable referees from all over the world. Of the more than 4000 referees for the year 2006, several reviewed more than 20 manuscripts! After serving nearly 25 years as Editor-in-Chief, I would like to thank the many faithful readers and authors. I and the rest of the entire editorial staff are indebted to your constructive criticism and loyalty. Peter Gölitz PS: Starting in 2008, Angewandte Chemie will be publishing 52 instead of 48 issues per year. Is this difference, in a time of online publishing and daily posting of articles in Early View mode, not more or less trivial? Quite the contrary! In the Early View mode, only the individual articles are recognized, but in an issue, readers are treated to a comprehensive presentation that offers additional incentive to read contributions from outside their own field—an element which for a journal that presents chemistry in all its many facets is indispensable.

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

Shining a Spotlight on Photochemistry

Not in the Year 2525 …︁

Communicating Chemistry in “Chemistry”