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We wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Jinlong Gong!

Jinlong Gong studied chemical engineering and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tianjin University and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon the completion of postdoctoral research at Harvard University, he joined the faculty of chemical engineering at Tianjin University, where he currently holds a Pei Yang Chair Professorship.

His research group work on heterogeneous catalysis and kinetics with a focus on catalytic conversions of small molecules, production of hydrogen energy, and syntheses and applications of nanostructured catalytic materials.

Browse a selection of Jinlong’s work below:

Facilitating the reduction of V–O bonds on VO_x/ZrO₂ catalysts for non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation
Yufei Xie, Ran Luo, Guodong Sun, Sai Chen, Zhi-Jian Zhao, Rentao Mu and Jinlong Gong
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 3845-3851
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC00690D, Edge Article

Gas–water interface engineered exceptional photoconversion of fatty acids to olefins
Qin Dai, Jingyi Lin, Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Guangfei Yu, Chaoqun Li, Tianyu Wang, Yanchun Shi, Guangwei Wang and Jinlong Gong
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7848-7857
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02237C, Paper

Theoretical insights into single-atom catalysts
Lulu Li, Xin Chang, Xiaoyun Lin, Zhi-Jian Zhao and Jinlong Gong
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 8156-8178
DOI: 10.1039/D0CS00795A, Review Article

Operando characterization techniques for electrocatalysis
Jingkun Li and Jinlong Gong
Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, 13, 3748-3779
DOI: 10.1039/D0EE01706J, Review Article

Core–shell structured catalysts for thermocatalytic, photocatalytic, and electrocatalytic conversion of CO₂
Sonali Das, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Jinlong Gong, Nikita Dewangan, Kus Hidajat, Bruce C. Gates and Sibudjing Kawi
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 2937-3004
DOI: 10.1039/C9CS00713J, Review Article

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We wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Ning Jiao!

Ning Jiao received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Shandong University in 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (2004) with Prof. Shengming Ma at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC). He then spent 2004-2006 as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Manfred T. Reetz at Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung. In 2007, he joined the faculty at Peking University as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010, and is currently the Yangtze-river scholars distinguished Professor at Peking University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

His current research efforts are focused on:

1)  New methodologies development in Atom-Incorporation Reactions mainly on oxygenation, nitrogenation, and halogenation reactions
2)  The first-row transition metal catalysis and the inert chemical bonds functionalization
3)  Bioactive compounds synthesis and drug discovery

Browse a selection of Ning’s work below:

Intramolecular Csp³–H/C–C bond amination of alkyl azides for the selective synthesis of cyclic imines and tertiary amines
Xiaojin Wen, Xinyao Li, Xiao Luo, Weijin Wang, Song Song and Ning Jiao
Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 4482-4487
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC05522C, Edge Article

Cu-catalyzed oxygenation of alkene-tethered amides with O₂via unactivated CC bond cleavage: a direct approach to cyclic imides
Junhua Li, Jialiang Wei, Bencong Zhu, Teng Wang and Ning Jiao
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 9099-9103
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03175H, Edge Article

A metal-free desulfurizing radical reductive C–C coupling of thiols and alkenes
Qixue Qin, Weijing Wang, Cheng Zhang, Song Song and Ning Jiao
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 10583-10586
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC05378F, Communication

Efficient and practical synthesis of unsymmetrical disulfides via base-catalyzed aerobic oxidative dehydrogenative coupling of thiols
Xu Qiu, Xiaoxue Yang, Yiqun Zhang, Song Song and Ning Jiao
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 2220-2225
DOI: 10.1039/C9QO00239A, Research Article

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We wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Subi George!

Subi George was born on January 1st, 1977 in a quaint little village in the south Indian state of Kerala. He is a Professor and Associate Chair of the New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD degree at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, India in 2004 and during 2005-2008 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Professor George is currently leading an Organic Materials and Supramolecular Chemistry group at JNCASR. His current research interests focus on Organic Responsive and Adaptive Materials, Functional Supramolecular Polymers, Living and Non-equilibrium supramolecular polymerization, Supramolecular Chirality and Organic optoelectronic materials.

He is the recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology from the Government of India in the Chemical Sciences Category for the year 2020. He was also the recipient of Swaranjayanti Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology of Government of India (2017), Asian Photochemistry Association (APA) Young Scientist award (2015), NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in Chemistry (2015), Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal (2015) and Materials Research Society of India Medal (2013). In 2011-2013 he was a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences and in 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Chemistry of Materials (ACS), Material Horizons (RSC), Chem (Cell) and Organic Materials (Thieme).

Browse a selection of Subi’s work below:

Controlled synthesis of organic two-dimensional nanostructures via reaction-driven, cooperative supramolecular polymerization
Shikha Dhiman, Rita Ghosh, Souvik Sarkar and Subi J. George
Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC02670K, Edge Article

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Electric field assisted assembly of 1D supramolecular nanofibres for enhanced supercapacitive performance
Suman Kundu, Subi J. George and Giridhar U. Kulkarni
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 13106-13113
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA03901B, Paper

Bioinspired, ATP-driven co-operative supramolecular polymerization and its pathway dependence
Ananya Mishra, Divya B. Korlepara, Sundaram Balasubramanian and Subi J. George
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 1505-1508
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC08790G, Communication

Bio-inspired temporal regulation of ion-transport in nanochannels
K. P. Sonu, Sushmitha Vinikumar, Shikha Dhiman, Subi J. George and Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 1847-1852
DOI: 10.1039/C8NA00414E, Paper

Bioinspired temporal supramolecular polymerization
Shikha Dhiman, Aritra Sarkar and Subi J. George
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 18913-18925
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03225D, Review Article
 

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We would like to wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Shu-Li You!

Professor Shu-Lli You was born in Henan, China, and received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai Univ. in 1996. He obtained his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Lixin Dai before doing postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffery Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute. From 2004, he worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation as a PI before returning to SIOC as a Professor in 2006. He is currently appointed as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry of SIOC, and the deputy director of SIOC.

His research interests mainly focus on asymmetric C-H functionalization and catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) reactions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the recipient of RSC Merck Award (2015) and Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation (2016).

Browse a selection of Shu-Li’s work below:

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric dearomatization reactions
Zi-Lei Xia, Qing-Feng Xu-Xu, Chao Zheng and Shu-Li You
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 286-300
DOI: C8CS00436F, Review Article

Catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) reaction-enabled total synthesis of indole-based natural products
Chao Zheng and Shu-Li You
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2019, 36, 1589-1605
DOI: C8NP00098K, Review Article

Palladium-catalyzed intermolecular allenylation reactions of 2,3-disubstituted indoles and allenyl carbonate
Yizhan Zhai, Shu-Li You and Shengming Ma
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 7128-7130
DOI: C9OB01435G, Communication

Highly efficient synthesis and stereoselective migration reactions of chiral five-membered aza-spiroindolenines: scope and mechanistic understanding
Qing-Feng Wu, Chao Zheng, Chun-Xiang Zhuo and Shu-Li You
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 4453-4459
DOI: C6SC00176A, Edge Article

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We would like to wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Gabriel Merino!

Gabriel is a Professor in the Applied Physics Department at Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados Merida (Cinvestav Mérida), México. He studied at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (BSc in Chemistry, 1997) and Cinvestav Zacatenco (PhD in Chemistry, 2003) under the supervision of Alberto Vela. He then joined the group of Gotthard Seifert and Thomas Heine at TU Dresden as a postdoctoral fellow before returning to Mexico in 2005 to take his first independent research position at the Universidad de Guanajuato. He joined Cinvestav Merida in 2012 and his research group is one of the most active groups in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Mexico and Latin America.

Gabriel has also spent time researching at Cornell University (Roald Hoffmann, 2005), and the University of the Basque Country (Jesus Ugalde, 2011). He is a member of the Mexican National Researcher System (Level 3, the highest level), and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded the Research Grant from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2012), the Catedra Marcos Moshinsky (2012), the National Prize “Andres Manuel del Rio” in Chemistry from the Mexican Chemical Society (2017), the Walter Kohn Award (2018) from the International Center of Theoretical Physics, and the Moshinsky Medal (2019) from Institute of Physics (UNAM).

Gabriel has previously served as Associate Editor for RSC Advances (2016-2020) and is currently a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and ChemistrySelect. His group’s main research interests are the prediction of new chemical entities and the study of central concepts of chemistry, such as chemical bonding and aromaticity. You can find out more on their website.

Browse a selection of Gabriel’s latest work published by the Royal Society of Chemistry:

Origin of the isotropic motion in crystalline molecular rotors with carbazole stators
Abraham Colin-Molina, Marcus J. Jellen, Eduardo García-Quezada, Miguel Eduardo Cifuentes-Quintal, Fernando Murillo, Jorge Barroso, Salvador Pérez-Estrada, Rubén A. Toscano, Gabriel Merino and Braulio Rodríguez-Molina
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4422-4429
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC04398A

Filling the void: controlled donor–acceptor interaction facilitates the formation of an M–M single bond in the zero oxidation state of M (M = Zn, Cd, Hg)
Ranajit Saha, Sudip Pan, Pratim K. Chattaraj and Gabriel Merino
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 1056-1064
DOI: 10.1039/C9DT04213J

Triggering the dynamics of a carbazole-p-[phenylene-diethynyl]-xylene rotor through a mechanically induced phase transition
Andrés Aguilar-Granda, Abraham Colin-Molina, Marcus J. Jellen, Alejandra Núñez-Pineda, M. Eduardo Cifuentes-Quintal, Rubén Alfredo Toscano, Gabriel Merino and Braulio Rodríguez-Molina
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 14054-14057
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC05672F

Exhaustive exploration of MgB_n (n = 10–20) clusters and their anions
Yonghong Tian, Donghe Wei, Yuanyuan Jin, Jorge Barroso, Cheng Lu and Gabriel Merino
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 6935-6941
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00201D

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We would like to wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Maja Köhn!

Maja Köhn is a Professor for Integrative Signaling Research at the Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany. She studied chemistry at the University of Kiel and moved afterwards to the Max-Planck-Institute and the University in Dortmund, where she obtained her PhD under the direction of H. Waldmann in 2005. After Maja’s postdoctoral work with G. L. Verdine at Harvard University, she started her independent career in 2007 as a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2016 Maja moved to Freiburg for her current position. Research in her group focuses on the development and application of tools using synthetic chemistry and molecular cell biology to study and target phosphatases in health and disease. Maja’s ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8142-3504

Development of a solid phase synthesis strategy for soluble phosphoinositide analogues
Miriam Bru, Shriram P. Kotkar, Nilanjana Kar and Maja Köhn
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 1893-1902
DOI: 10.1039/C2SC01061E

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We would like to wish a very warm welcome to our new Chemical Science Associate Editor Professor Lin Chen!

Lin X. Chen is a Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern University and a Senior Chemist in Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After her postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, she joined Argonne as a staff scientist. In 2007, she joined Northwestern University where her research are focused on fundamental light-matter interactions of different solar energy conversion platforms, including excited state molecular structural dynamics in photocatalytic processes and photovoltaic materials; understanding roles of ultrafast and coherent electronic and atomic motions in in photochemical reactions, and functional structural dynamics of biomacromolecules on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Her main tools for research are ultrafast laser and X-ray spectroscopy/scattering and other property/structural methods in collaborations with theorists and chemists making molecules and materials.

She was awarded one of the highly cited scientists in 2019 by the Web of Science, with >230 publications, and >200 invited lectures. She has been members of the Research Council for the Chemical, Biological and Geological Sciences Division, Basic Energy Science, US Department of Energy, the Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Letters, Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters, and the International Science Advisory Committee for π-Functional Materials. She is an AAAS Fellow and has won distinguished performance award at Argonne. Her group website is at http://chemgroups.northwestern.edu/chen_group/.

Browse a selection of Lin’s latest work published by the Royal Society of Chemistry:

X-ray snapshots reveal conformational influence on active site ligation during metalloprotein folding
Darren J. Hsu, Denis Leshchev, Dolev Rimmerman, Jiyun Hong, Matthew S. Kelley, Irina Kosheleva, Xiaoyi Zhang and Lin X. Chen
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 9788-9800
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC02630D, Edge Article

Controlled growth of imine-linked two-dimensional covalent organic framework nanoparticles
Rebecca L. Li, Nathan C. Flanders, Austin M. Evans, Woojung Ji, Ioannina Castano, Lin X. Chen, Nathan C. Gianneschi and William R. Dichtel
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3796-3801
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00289H, Edge Article

Effects of 1,8-diiodooctane on domain nanostructure and charge separation dynamics in PC71BM-based bulk heterojunction solar cells
Sylvia J. Lou, Nanjia Zhou, Xugang Guo, Robert P. H. Chang, Tobin J. Marks and Lin X. Chen
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 23805-23818
DOI: 10.1039/C8TA06865H, Paper

Insulin hexamer dissociation dynamics revealed by photoinduced T-jumps and time-resolved X-ray solution scattering
Dolev Rimmerman, Denis Leshchev, Darren J. Hsu, Jiyun Hong, Baxter Abraham, Irina Kosheleva, Robert Henning and Lin X. Chen
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2018, 17, 874-882
DOI: 10.1039/C8PP00034D, Communication

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We are delighted to announce that Dr François Gabbaï has joined Chemical Science as our newest Associate Editor.

François Gabbaï was born in France and attended the University of Bordeaux before moving to UT Austin where he became a PhD student with Alan Cowley.  Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1994, he joined the group of Hubert Schmidbaur at the Technical University of Munich, first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as an Habilitand.  Upon completion of his Habilitation in 1998, he moved to Texas A&M University where he now holds the Arthur E. Martell Chair of Chemistry.  His research interests revolve around the chemistry of p-block elements and late transition metals with applications in anion recognition, anion transport, and catalysis.  His is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the recipient of the 2009 North American Dalton Lectureship. In 2016, he also received the ACS F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry.

François has selected 4 of his favourite Chemical Science articles that he has published over the years that he would like to share with you. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Large-bite diboranes for the μ(1,2) complexation of hydrazine and cyanide
C. H. Chen, F. P. Gabbaï
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 6210-6218
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01877d

Fluorinated Antimony(V) Derivatives: Strong Lewis Acidic Properties and Application to the Complexation of Formaldehyde in Aqueous Solutions
D. Tofan, F. P. Gabbaï
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 6768-6778
DOI: 10.1039/c6sc02558g

Lewis acidic stiborafluorenes for the fluorescence turn-on sensing of fluoride in drinking water at ppm concentrations
M. Hirai, F. P. Gabbaï
Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 1886-1893
DOI: 10.1039/c4sc00343h

Lewis acid enhancement by juxtaposition with an onium ion: the case of a mercury stibonium complex
T.-P. Lin, R. C. Nelson, T. Wu, J. T. Miller, F. P. Gabbaï
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 1128-1136
DOI: 10.1039/c2sc00904h

We are delighted to announce that Professor Yi-Tao Long has joined Chemical Science as an Associate Editor.

Yi-Tao is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Nanjing University in China. He received his B.S. in Chemistry at Shandong University in 1989 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Hongyuan Chen from Nanjing University in 1998. After undertaking two-year postdoctoral studies at Heidelberg University, Yi-Tao worked at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta in Canada for over five years. Following one more year of research at UC Berkeley, he started his independent career at the East China University of Science and Technology in 2007.

Yi-Tao’s research interests focus on the development of new electrochemical measurement methods to reveal the characteristics and dynamics of single entities. This involves nanopore single molecule electroanalysis, biointerface spectroelectrochemistry and integrated biosensors.

Yi-Tao looks forward to receiving cutting-edge submissions that lead to the frontiers of analytical science and electrochemistry.

Below is a selection of articles published in Chemical Science which Yi-Tao would like to highlight – all free to read! We hope you enjoy them.

A lithium-ion-active aerolysin nanopore for effectively trapping long single-stranded DNA
Zheng-Li Hu, Meng-Yin Li, Shao-Chuang Liu, Yi-Lun Ying and Yi-Tao Long
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 354-358
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03927E, Edge Article

Impact and oxidation of single silver nanoparticles at electrode surfaces: one shot versus multiple events
Jon Ustarroz, Minkyung Kang, Erin Bullions and Patrick R. Unwin
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1841-1853
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04483B, Edge Article

Electrochemical imaging of cells and tissues
Tzu-En Lin, Stefania Rapino, Hubert H. Girault and Andreas Lesch
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4546-4554
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01035H, Minireview

Selective single molecule nanopore sensing of proteins using DNA aptamer-functionalised gold nanoparticles
Xiaoyan Lin, Aleksandar P. Ivanov and Joshua B. Edel
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3905-3912
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC00415J, Edge Article

Enhanced annihilation electrochemiluminescence by nanofluidic confinement
Hanan Al-Kutubi, Silvia Voci, Liza Rassaei, Neso Sojic and Klaus Mathwig
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 8946-8950
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03209B, Edge Article

We are delighted to introduce Professor Paolo Melchiorre as Chemical Science Associate Editor, handling submissions in the area of organic chemistry.

Paolo currently splits his time between two institutions, the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa as a Tenured Senior Scientist, and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona as a Professor and Senior Group Leader. Paolo’s research is centered around the development of asymmetric organocatalytic and photochemical processes that can be used as tools to solve problems in organic synthesis. His aim is to utilise photoorganocatalysis for the development of environmentally friendly reaction processes, presenting innovative solutions to common synthetic problems.

Paolo now joins the Chemical Science team as an Associate Editor and looks forward to handling submissions in the areas of organic chemistry, photochemistry, asymmetric catalysis and organocatalysis.

Below is a selection of articles published in Chemical Science that Paolo would like to highlight as being particularly impactful:

Characterizing chain processes in visible light photoredox catalysis
Megan A. Cismesia and Tehshik P. Yoon
Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 5426-5434
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02185E, Edge Article

Synergistic catalysis: A powerful synthetic strategy for new reaction development
Anna E. Allena and David W.C. MacMillan
Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 633-658
DOI: 10.1039/C2SC00907B, Perspective

Nickel-catalyzed transamidation of aliphatic amide derivatives
Jacob E. Dander, Emma L. Bakera and Neil K. Garg
Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 6433-6438
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC01980G, Edge Article

Site-selective bromination of sp³ C-H bonds
Shyam Sathyamoorthi, Shibdas Banerjee, J. Du Bois, Noah Z. Burns and Richard N. Zare
Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 100-104
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC04611A, Edge Article

Harnessing non-covalent interactions to exert control over regioselectivity and site-selectivity in catalytic reactions
Holly J. Davis and Robert J. Phipps
Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 864-877
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04157D, Edge Article