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We are MedChem: The Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2024

AbstractThe Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry (FiMC) is the largest international Medicinal Chemistry conference in Germany and took place from March 17th to 20th 2024 in Munich. Co‐organized by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker; GDCh) and the Division of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry of the German Pharmaceutical Society (Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft; DPhG), and supported by a local organizing committee from the Ludwigs‐Maximilians‐University Munich headed by Daniel Merk, the meeting brought together approximately 225 participants from 20 countries. The outstanding program of the four‐day conference included 40 lectures by leading scientists from industry and academia as well as early career investigators. Moreover, 100 posters were presented in two highly interactive poster sessions.

The Library of German Chemical Society: History, provenance, and current status

The Library for Natural Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences embraces publications from the Library of German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker). The Library was established all at the same time as the Society, in 1867. The outstanding collection of chemical literature was being developed over decades. The Library was receiving books and journals from Russia owing to close ties between Russian, Soviet and German colleagues. By the beginning of the World War II, the collection comprised 300 periodical titles, along with monographs, reference books, dissertations and chemical patents. After the war, the library was displaced to the USSR and transferred to the special libraries of the Academy’s of Sciences institutions. In 1956, the monographs were returned to the Society in the Federal Republic of Germany. Today, they are deposited in Humboldt University in Berlin. The periodicals are stored in the RAS Library for Natural Sciences. The publications have played significant role in Soviet chemistry information support and are still relevant. The favorable storage environment is maintained.

The History of the German Association for Crystal Growth

The History of the German Association for Crystal Growth

Wolfgang Schnick

Wolfgang Schnick

EuCheMS ECC7 in Liverpool: Chemistry and More!

EuCheMS ECC7 in Liverpool: Chemistry and More!

150 Years of Chemical Society in Germany

Abstract In 2017, the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) celebrated the 150th anniversary of the creation the older of its two predecessor organizations, the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft.

Burchard Franck (1926-2017).

Burchard Frank, Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University ofMfnster, passed away on February 21, 2017. He was an internationally recognized natural-product chemist, who made important contributions to the field of biomimetic transformations of alkaloids, as well as the areas of pigments and toxins, and porphyrinoids. Burchard Franck was born on May 6, 1926 in Hamburg. Already in his childhood he came into contact with chemistry, since his father, who earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of Kiel, was a chemistry teacher and later the head of a high school. However, before he could start with his own studies he had to serve in the army at a very young age, and after the end of World War 2, he was a prisoner of war. Finally he commenced his studies in chemistry at the University of Hamburg, which was almost completely destroyed at that time, making his training rather difficult. After completing his diploma with Rudolf Tschesche, he moved to Göttingen, where he received his PhD for work on the red antibiotic rhodomycines carried out under the guidance of Hans Brockmann. The University of Göttingen was one of the few universities that had not been destroyed in the war, and Franck always praised his stay at this school as the most wonderful experience in his life. In 1959 he completed his habilitation with independent work on the biosynthesis of piperidine alkaloids from Sedum acre. Only a few years later, he moved to the University of Kiel. In 1968 he accepted a call to the University of Münster as the successor of Fritz Micheel and Director of the Institute of Organic chemistry, where he remained until his retirement. In between he received offers to move to the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen. A very important tool for Franck's work in the field of biosynthesis was a radionuclide laboratory, and he was able to convince the authorities to provide these rather expensive facilities. A second essential technique was mass spectrometry, for which he always had the newest generation of instruments. Franck's entire scientific career was focused on natural-product chemistry. After his work on piperidine alkaloids, he moved to the tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids, where he impressed the community by his outstanding work on biomimetic transformations. He was able to show that alkaloids from the aporphine and morphine type can be obtained from benzyltetrahydroisoquinolines by phenol oxidation after protecting the tertiary nitrogen atom as a quaternary salt. This work, which he presented in a lecture in Freiburg (where I was studying), impressed me so much that I moved to Kiel to become one of his students. Besides alkaloids, another important group of natural products that caught his interest early on were the pigments and toxins of fungi. In 1960, he started working on the ergochromes isolated from Claviceps purpurea and invented a nomenclature for the highly complex dimeric tetrahydroxanthenons (ergochroms, secalonic acids), which is still in use. The compounds were synthesized for the first time only recently. Franck showed that anthraquinones such as emodine are key intermediates in their biosynthesis. Several mycotoxines were also been isolated from fungi and synthesized; in addition their biosynthesis was investigated. In the latter part of his career, Franck moved to the area of porphyrins, where he again performed exciting work. For the investigation of the biosynthesis of these natural products, he carried out an elaborate synthesis to prepare a specifically 14C-labeled [α,γ-14C2]uroporphyrinogen III, and with feeding experiments, he could show that this compound is incorporated into heme without isomerization. Moreover, among other examples, he prepared a hexavinologous porphyrin with an aromatic 30 π system as well as N,N′-bridged porphyrins in a biomimetic fashion. In addition, he synthesized coproporphyrins for photodynamic cancer therapy. Besides his scientific work, Franck was a great teacher and was able to explain chemistry in a very clear and profound way. His lectures were always so perfectly presented that the notes could be used as a textbook. For this reason, he was invited as visiting professor by many universities in the USA, China, and Switzerland. He was a referee for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for many years, and he received several awards, including the Richard Kuhn Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) and the Windaus Medal of the University of Göttingen. Burchard Franck, who grew up in the city of Hamburg, was a typical north German with a somewhat reserved character, but he was accepted and greatly respected by his colleagues. He devoted his life to research and teaching and was always supported by his wife Dr. Renate Franck.

Cluster Preface: C–O And Related Bond Activation

Mamoru Tobisu received his PhD from Osaka University under the direction of Prof. Shinji Murai (2001). During his PhD studies, he was a visiting scientist (1999) with Prof. Gregory C. Fu at MIT. Following a period as a scientist at the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company (2001–2005), he started his academic career at Osaka University in 2005 as an assistant professor with Prof. Naoto Chatani. He was then appointed as an associate professor at the Center for Atomic and Molecular Technologies at Osaka University (2011) and was promoted to full professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry of Osaka University (2017). He received the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2008), the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (2009), the Young Scientists’ Award, a Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2012), the Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award (2012), Thomson Reuters Research Front Award (2016), and the Mukaiyama Award (2018). Naoto Chatani received his PhD in 1984 under Professors Noboru Sonoda and Shinji Murai. In 1984, he joined the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research at Osaka University as an Assistant Professor in the laboratory of Professor Terukiyo Hanafusa. After postdoctoral studies (1988–1989 under Professor Scott E. Denmark at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), he moved back to Osaka University and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor (1992) and to Full Professor (2003). He is a recipient of The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (1990), The Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2005), the Nagoya Silver Medal (2013), The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2017), a Humboldt Research Award (2017), a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2017) and will be a recipient of an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2018). Victor Snieckus was born in Kaunas, Lithuania and spent his childhood in Germany during World War II. He received training at U. Alberta, Canada, (B.Sc.), U. California, Berkeley (M.Sc. D.S. Noyce), and U. Oregon (Ph.D. Virgil Boekelheide). He returned to his adopted country for postdoctoral studies (National Research Council, Ottawa, Ted Edwards). Appointments: U. of Waterloo, Assistant (1966) to Professor (1979); Monsanto/NRC Industrial Research Chair, 1992–1998; Queen’s University, Inaugural Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry (1998–2009); Bader Chair Emeritus and Director, Snieckus Innovations, 2009-. Selective awards: A.C. Cope Scholar (2001, one of 5 Canadians), Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas (2002, from the President of Lithuania), Arvedson-Schlenk (2003, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker), Bernard Belleau (2005, Canadian Society for Chemistry), Givaudan-Karrer Medal (2008, U. Zurich), Honoris causa (2009, Technical U. Tallinn, Estonia), Global Lithuanian Award (2012), Yoshida Lectureship (2017). He hopes that he has only temporarily discontinued playing hockey and wishes also to return to the clarinet.

Special Issue Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society)

Graphical Abstract Happy 150th Birthday GDCh, with best wishes from Chemistry—A European Journal and ChemPubSoc Europe! To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) we have put together a special issue that contains papers by top German research groups. The issue has been timed to appear in conjunction with the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2017 Jubiläumskongress “GDCh—150 Jahre” (WiFo2017; GDCh Scientific Forum Chemistry 2017—Anniversary Congress “GDCh—150 years”). The cover itself is a collage of past cover pictures of Chemistry—A European Journal published by many of the groups featured in this special issue. To find out more about the papers highlighted on this cover check out our WiFo countdown on twitter @ChemPubSocEurope #WiFo2017; the associated papers are free to read until the end of 2017.

George A. Olah (1927-2017).

George A. Olah (1927-2017).

Günther Wilke (1925-2016).

Günther Wilke (1925-2016).

The 6th Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium.

Bilateral Symposium: The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) hosted the 6th Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium from August 29 to September 3, 2016. This event, co-organized by the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society), featured excellent talks by the invited early-career chemists of both countries and offered ample opportunities for discussions and making friends among the participants.

David J. Procter

Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 19 p. 5152-5152 Author ProfileFree Access David J. Procter First published: 07 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201610197AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “The biggest challenge facing scientists is conformity. Looking back over my career, I remember the excitement of setting up my research laboratory and building my first team ...” This and more about David J. Procter can be found on page 5152. David J. Procter The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently: “Selective Synthesis of Cyclooctanoids by Radical Cyclization of Seven-Membered Lactones: Neutron Diffraction Study of the Stereoselective Deuteration of a Chiral Organosamarium Intermediate”: X. Just-Baringo, J. Clark, M. J. Gutmann, D. J. Procter, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12499; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 12687. Date of birth: September 4, 1970 Position: Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Manchester E-mail: david.j.procter@manchester.ac.uk Homepage: http://people.man.ac.uk/∼mbdssdp2/ ORCID: 0000-0003-3179-2509 Education: 1992 BSc, University of Leeds 1995 PhD supervised by Christopher Rayner, University of Leeds 1995–1997 Postdoctoral research with Robert Holton, Florida State University Awards: 2014 Bader Award, Royal Society of Chemistry; 2014 Liebig Lectureship, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society); 2015 EPSRC Established Career Fellowship Research: Radical cyclizations and cascade reactions; organosulfur chemistry; copper catalysis Hobbies: My family, football, gardening The biggest challenge facing scientists is conformity. Looking back over my career, I remember the excitement of setting up my research laboratory and building my first team. My favorite drink is Robinsons Unicorn light ale from nearby Stockport. My favorite quote is “don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today” (My Dad and Benjamin Franklin, I believe). My biggest inspiration is my young family; the children put a smile on my face even after a tough day. My favorite time of day is early morning: I set the alarm for 5 am so I can work before breakfast. I advise my students to be creative and always follow up on the unexpected. My favorite way to spend a holiday is walking in the Lake District or on the beaches of Gower peninsula, Wales. My science “heroes” are Henri Kagan, who developed my favorite reagent, and so much more, and K. C. Nicolaou, the maker of high-profile natural products during my student days. The most important thing I learned from my students is that everyone sees chemistry differently. My favorite band … when growing up in Lancashire in the 1980s had to be The Smiths. My favorite book is Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, having recently re-read the story with my son. When I was eighteen I wanted to be the new Morrissey, minus the celibacy and the gladioli. My 5 top papers: References 1“Metal-Free CH−CH-Type Cross-Coupling of Arenes and Alkynes Directed by a Multifunctional Sulfoxide Group”: J. A. Fernández-Salas, A. J. Eberhart, D. J. Procter, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 790. (Organosulfur chemistry meets a challenge in synthesis.) 2“Enantioselective Generation of Adjacent Stereocenters in a Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling of Imines, Allenes, and Diboranes”: K. Yeung, R. E. Ruscoe, J. Rae, A. P. Pulis, D. J. Procter, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11912; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 12091. (Complex homoallylic amines selectively obtained in one pot using a copper catalyst.) 3“Reductive Cyclization Cascades of Lactones Using SmI2–H2O”: D. Parmar, K. Price, M. Spain, H. Matsubara, P. A. Bradley, D. J. Procter, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 2418. (Complexity generating cascade reactions involving unusual radical intermediates.) 4“A Dialdehyde Cyclization Cascade in an Approach to Pleuromutilin”: M. D Helm, M. Da Silva, D. Sucunza, T. J. K. Findley, D. J. Procter, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 9315; Angew. Chem. 2009, 121, 9479. (A prelude to our total synthesis of the antibacterial natural product.) 5“A Fluorous-Phase Pummerer Cyclative-Capture Strategy for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles”: L. A. McAllister, R. A. McCormick, S. Brand, D. J. Procter, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 452; Angew. Chem. 2005, 117, 456. (New Pummerer reactions, an oxindole synthesis, and a novel tagging strategy.) Volume56, Issue19May 2, 2017Pages 5152-5152 ReferencesRelatedInformation

President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker: T. K. Lindhorst / IKCOC Prize: D. Seebach / Bohlmann Lecture: P. S. Baran / Ho-Am Prize in Science: J. Cheon

Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 54, Issue 46 p. 13500-13500 News President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker: T. K. Lindhorst / IKCOC Prize: D. Seebach / Bohlmann Lecture: P. S. Baran / Ho-Am Prize in Science: J. Cheon First published: 21 October 2015 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201509337Citations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract Citing Literature Volume54, Issue46November 9, 2015Pages 13500-13500 RelatedInformation

Heinrich Nöth (1928-2015).

On June 26, 2015 the “Master of Boron” Heinrich Nöth passed away, only six days after his 87th birthday. Nöth was born on June 20, 1928 as the son of the solo hornist of the Bavarian State Orchestra. Music was an early gift, and his talent meant that a professional career in this field seemed to be the right choice. Nevertheless, at the end of the 1940s he decided to study chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). Although he was always attached to music, chemistry became his profession. After his diploma in 1952, he received his doctoral degree for a thesis on hydrides of Group 13 elements, which he performed under the supervision of Egon Wiberg. After a short period as research officer at ICI in Great Britain, he returned to Munich to begin his habilitation on boron–nitrogen compounds, which he defended successfully in 1962. After four years as associate professor at the LMU, he left Munich to accept the renowned Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Marburg University. In 1969, he returned to the LMU to succeed Egon Wiberg in the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, a position he held until he retired in 1996. Heinrich Nöth had started his own family already before finishing his dissertation. In 1953, he married Erika and they had two daughters. Nöth enjoyed his family life, and his seven grandchildren were a counterpart to his commitment for science. Chemistry was his life. He worked on hydrides and elemental hydrogen compounds as well as on nitrogen compounds of lithium, beryllium, aluminum, and tin. But his main focus was on boron and its manifold chemistry. He synthesized low-coordinate boron compounds such as boron cations, aminoiminoboranes, methylidenboranes, and phosphanylidenboranes. Already at an early stage, his interest was in compounds with boron–transition-metal bonds, which resulted in a rhodium-catalyzed hydroboration reaction with catecholborane; even today this procedure still inspires metal-catalyzed borylation reactions. Boron-containing heterocycles such as borazines, borafluorenes, and strained borabicyclobutane derivatives were studied in his laboratories. Boron–hydrogen chemistry and redox chemistry of tetrahydridoborates played a prominent role in his research, and the reaction mechanisms of these reactions were elucidated. Electron-precise open-chain and cyclic oligoaminoboranes became accessible, and a cyclohexaborane was a particular highlight. 11B NMR spectroscopy was important to Nöth as a tool in boron chemistry, but single-crystal X-ray diffraction was really his passion. A burning light in the diffractometer room of the institute after midnight indicated Nöth at work, and he practiced this technique even when he was in his eighties. The results of his research are summarized in more than 800 publications and 16 patents. During his active career, Nöth had more than 150 doctoral students. However, research was not his only important undertaking—he was a fascinating teacher and his experimental lectures on inorganic chemistry, the “Nöth show”, were treasured by many students. It is not sufficient to describe Nöth as a dedicated researcher and teacher. He recognized the necessity to promote the natural sciences, specifically chemistry, in society. His personality and his gift for combining various interests and finding efficient solutions allowed him to hold several influential positions, not only in university administration and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). He was President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) for two terms (1988–1989 and 1992–1993), and he was also elected President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for two consecutive terms (1998–2005). Here he exerted formative influence on the visibility of science in Germany. Nöth was Editor-in-Chief of Chemische Berichte from 1976–1997, and was Senior Editor of its successor, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, from 1997–1998. In addition, he was member of the advisory boards of 11 scientific journals. Numerous honors followed, and he was elected to many academies and was made an honorary member of several chemical societies, both national and international. In 1991 he was appointed to the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, the highest award for scientific achievements in the Free State of Bavaria. In 2009, his services to natural sciences were honored with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. As permanent guest professor at the CINVESTAV in Mexico City he promoted not only scientific exchange, but had a strong commitment to children’s aid in Mexico. All these activities were supported by his family, and he liked to relax in his house near the Chiemsee, which was always a very welcome final destination for group excursions into the Bavarian mountains. With the passing of Heinrich Nöth, chemistry has lost one of its most influential characters over the last few decades.

Gerhard Quinkert (1927-2015).

Gerhard Quinkert (1927-2015).

Rudolf Hoppe (1922-2014).

Rudolf Hoppe, emeritus professor at the University of Gießen, passed away on November 24, 2014, just a few weeks after his 92nd birthday. With his passing, the inorganic solid-state chemistry community has lost one of its most famous personalities, whose works, interests, and talents stretched far over the boundaries of his own field. Hoppe was born on October 29, 1922 in Wittenberge, Mark Brandenburg, where he successfully completed his high school education in 1941. He was immediately conscripted and could only start studying for his chemistry degree at the University of Kiel in 1945, after he returned from captivity as a prisoner of war. A decisive factor for his career was an encounter with Wilhelm Klemm, who had just taken the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Kiel, and subsequently supervised Hoppe’s diploma thesis. Hoppe self-confidently came up with his own research topic, the bold idea of synthesizing “real” noble-gas compounds, namely xenon fluorides. Here one recognizes as one of Hoppe’s scientific maxims to need to question paradigms, even when they appear irrefutable, and to accept no intellectual barriers but rather to check their stability, and, when necessary, pull them down. To start with, however, his mentor, who he always admired, suggested a project that was a bit more down-to-earth: the preparation of complex silver and gold fluorides. After completing his diploma thesis in 1951, he followed Wilhelm Klemm to the University of Münster. In the same year, he married Karin Saborowski, and their sons Jens Reimar and Klaus-Dieter followed in due course. He completed his doctorate in 1954, and completed his hablilitation in inorganic chemistry four years later. Hoppe’s scientific achievements soon brought him attention, and he was offered several attractive positions over a short time. In 1962, he joined the faculty in Münster, and in 1964, he took up a newly created position as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. From subsequent offers in Düsseldorf, Bochum, and Gießen, he took the Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Gießen in 1965, and remained loyal to this institution until his retirement, despite offers from the Universities of Hannover and Stuttgart. Hoppe’s scientific work is closely connected to modern solid-state chemistry, the knowledge of which is an important requirement for all the developments that are taken for granted today, not least in the area of high technology. His early work already outlined a wide-reaching and ingeniously realized research program. He was passionate about preparative solid-state chemistry, and reported hundreds of new oxides and fluorides. Practically no elements in the periodic table were left unexplored by his systematic studies. His work contains many highlights that in the meantime have made their way into standard textbooks. For example, his research group succeeded in realizing uncommon valence states, some of which were not thought to be possible, including transition metals in uncommonly high oxidation states such as tetravalent copper (Cs2CuF6), cobalt (K2CoO3), and nickel (K2NiF6), as well as novel low-valent states, such as monovalent iron, cobalt, and nickel (e.g., K3FeO2). In 1962, Hoppe revisited his ideas on the synthesis of noble-gas compounds. Convinced by his own estimation that xenon fluorides should be thermodynamically stable, Hoppe succeeded in reacting xenon and fluorine in a spectacularly simple fashion. Independently and almost simultaneously, two American research groups also prepared xenon compounds, however special credit should be given to Hoppe as it is exclusively his early deliberation and reasoning that allowed the then dogmatic and strictly valid limits of valence theory to be overcome. A particular feature of Hoppe’s research style was that the experimental results were accompanied and supported from the outset by conceptual approaches that targeted structuring, classification, and a detailed understanding of the experimental findings. Hoppe’s impressive and sometimes spectacular results were quite rightly highly recognized, and his scientific career was accompanied by numerous prestigious honors, including the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society), the prestigious Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics, and the Lavoisier Medal from the Société Chimique de France. Hoppe was not only an unusually creative and successful researcher, he was also an inspiring and gifted teacher. His students could count themselves lucky that they were swept along with his enthusiasm for chemistry, experiencing all its beauty and depth under his guidance. Rudolf Hoppe will never be forgotten by all who adored him as an academic teacher or were connected to him on a personal level.

Ekkehard Winterfeldt (1932-2014).

Ekkehard Winterfeldt, who was President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society; GDCh) from 1996-1997 passed away on October 11, 2014. His research achievements included the synthesis of alkaloids and steroids, and stereoselective transformations. He was known as a gentleman and an inspiring scholar, and was able to convey his passion for science to everybody who worked with him.

New Members of the Editorial Board and International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie

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

Guest Editorial: The 3rd Transatlantic Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium

GUEST EDITORIAL DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303417 The 3rd Transatlantic Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium Anastassia N. Alexandrova,* [a] Stefan M. Huber,* [b] and Ali Tavassoli* [c] T he 3rd Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, set of topics that were grouped into related sessions. The meeting started with an address by representatives of the or- ganizing committee (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, American Chemical Society, and Royal Society of Chemis- try; Figure 2), followed by remarks from the conference chair, Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Arndt: “you are in one of the most beautiful parts of Germany, with plenty of things to do and see in the area. Unfortunately you will be spending quite a bit of your time during the coming days in this lecture theater…” (Figure 3). Each delegate was then asked to standup and introduce them- selves, and it was immediately clear, that despite the involve- ment of only four national chemical societies, this was a truly international confer- ence, with multiple countries represented; a running theme of this section was that most delegates were dual nationals and many were working in Figure 1. Kloster Seeon: the setting for the 3rd Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium; photo: A. a different country from which Alexandrova. they had done their first degree. The international composi- tion of the meeting was further commented upon by Prof. [a] Dr. A. N. Alexandrova Dr. Helmut Schwarz (President of the Humboldt Founda- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry tion) during his after dinner lecture, as being in keeping University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 (USA) with Alexander von Humboldts vision of science without E-mail: ana@chem.ucla.edu borders (Figure 4). held at Kloster Seeon in Germany on August 8–11, 2013 brought together 60 early-career chemistry academics from Germany (20), UK (18), USA (16) and for the first time, Brazil (6). The aims of the conference were to enable inter- national, multidisciplinary networking and collaboration op- portunities in the relaxing settings of a beautiful old monas- tery by a lake (Figure 1). The program included a diverse [b] Dr. S. M. Huber Department Chemie, Technische Universitt Mnchen 85747, Garching (Germany) E-mail: stefan.m.huber@tum.de [c] Dr. A. Tavassoli Chemistry, University of Southampton Southampton, SO17 1BJ (UK) and Cancer Sciences, University of Southampton Southampton SO16 6YD (UK) E-mail: a.tavassoli@southampton.ac.uk Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 15777 – 15783 Functional Materials and Catalysts T he scientific program opened with the first session on functional materials, which promise solutions to contempo- rary energy conversion and storage problems through effi- cient catalysis, CO 2 sequestration, and more. Through the most advanced methods of material synthesis, design, and 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim