Vive la Chimie
2007; Wiley; Volume: 13; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/chem.200700722
ISSN1521-3765
Autores Tópico(s)Various Chemistry Research Topics
ResumoThis year the Société Française de Chimie (SFC, the French Chemical Society) celebrates its 150th anniversary. Over the past centuries a number of eminent French chemists have helped revolutionize the field; among them, Louis Pasteur, Henry Le Châtelier, and Charles Friedel, shown on the cover of this issue along with many others (see the cover text for details). France has also produced many Nobel Prize winners, including Marie and Pierre Curie, Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie, Henri Moissan, Jean-Marie Lehn, Yves Chauvin, Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (also shown on the cover). 1 One of the forefathers of French chemistry and indeed of chemistry world wide also deserves a mention: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier. He is best remembered perhaps for his experiments on the nature of combustion, thereby demonstrating the role of oxygen in the process. He was the pioneer of stoichiometry (the law of conservation of mass) and his book Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, 1789) is widely considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook. With the French chemists Claude-Louis Berthollet, Antoine Fourcroy, and Guyton de Morveau, he also devised a chemical nomenclature (Méthode de nomenclature chimique, 1787), still in use today, to describe the structure of chemical compounds, leading to names such as sulfuric acid, sulfates, and sulfites. This system enabled the communication of important discoveries between chemists from different backgrounds and thereby furthering communication and collaboration between scientists throughout the world, which is also one of the main aims of Chemistry—A European Journal. This special issue of Chemistry—A European Journal gives a taste of the wealth of chemical research being conducted in France today: from theory to organic synthesis, from catalysis to supramolecular chemistry, from solid-state chemistry to ionic liquids, from materials chemistry to natural products. The key role collaboration plays in modern chemistry is illustrated by joint papers from French chemists and their counterparts not only from Europe, including Germany, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Italy, and the UK, but also from Canada, the United States, Japan, and Senegal. This cosmopolitan mix reflects the vision that was conceived for Chemistry—A European Journal: made in Europe for the World. Chemistry—A European Journal has a very close association with France. Although the idea of a European forum for top-quality Full Papers was broached several times by a number of European chemists in the 1970s and 1980s, the reality was finally brought to life in 1993, born out of discussions at a conference in Munich between Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn, Heinrich Nöth (the then President of the German Chemical Society), and Peter Gölitz (Editor of Angewandte Chemie from the then VCH publishing house). The international editorial board, which over the years has included several leading French chemists, namely, Jean Rouxel, Olivier Kahn, Pierre Sinaÿ, and François Mathey, was assembled under the leadership of Jean-Marie Lehn, and the first issue of the journal appeared in April 1995. It was in their inaugural editorial that Jean-Marie Lehn and Peter Gölitz coined the phrase “European in spirit and international in appeal”, an aim that we have always tried to live up to. Chemistry—A European Journal has also over the years developed strong links with 14 European Chemical Societies, including of course, the SFC, that jointly own the journal (Table 1). The success of the journal and the development of the partnership between the chemical societies, which have banded together as the Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EU ChemSoc), and Wiley-VCH have been major factors in the reshaping and new-found standing of the European Chemistry Journals. The European Journal of Organic Chemistry and the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, both of which are celebrating their tenth anniversaries this year, as well as ChemPhysChem, ChemBioChem, and ChemMedChem have all evolved in recent years to become highly respected journals in their specialist fields. The latest addition to this family of journals is ChemSusChem—Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials, 1 based on a new initiative from the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI; Italian Chemical Society), the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society), together with other European Chemical Societies and Wiley-VCH. ChemSusChem will contain an attractive mix of peer-reviewed Full Papers, Short Communications, Reviews, Highlights and Book Reviews. The journal will cover a range of topics that come under the heading of sustainable chemistry, including green chemistry (microreactors, catalysis, green solvents, microwaves), sustainable chemicals and materials (fine chemicals, biomass/biofuels), environment (CO2 sequestration, cultural heritage chemistry, atomospheric chemistry), and renewable alternative energies (hydrogen/fuel cells, solar energy conversion photovoltaics). ChemSusChem will replace Annali di Chimica—Journal of Analytical, Environmental, and Cultural Heritage Chemistry, which will be published by the SCI until the end of 2007. The Chairmen of the Editorial Board are Daniel Nocera (MIT), Matthias Beller (Rostock), and Gabriele Centi (Messina), and the first issue is planned to appear in 2008 (more information will be available soon on Wiley Interscience under www. ChemSusChem.org) Country Society Founded Web address Austria Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCh) 1897 http://www.goech.at/ Belgium La Société Royale de Chimie (SRC) 1887 http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/src/ Belgium Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV) 1939 http://www.kvcv.be/ Czech Republic Česká společnost chemická (ČSCh) 1866 http://www.csch.cz/ (Czech Chemical Society CCS) France Société Française de Chimie (SFC) 1857 http://www.sfc.fr/ Germany Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) 1867 http://www.gdch.de/ Greece Association of Greek Chemists (AGC) 1924 http://www.eex.gr/ Hungary Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete (MKE) 1907 http://www.mke.org.hu/ (Hungarian Chemical Society) Italy Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) 1909 http://www.soc.chim.it/ The Netherlands Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV) 1903 http://www.kncv.nl/ Poland Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne (PTCh) http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/ (Polish Chemical Society PCS) 1919 Portugal Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (SPQ) 1911 http://www.spq.pt/ Spain Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) 1903 http://www.rseq.org/ Sweden Svenska Kemistsamfundet 1883 http://www.chemsoc.se/ (Swedish Chemical Society SCS) The French connection with Chemistry—A European Journal was again clearly apparent during our 10th anniversary in 2005 which we celebrated with a symposium entitled “Chemistry—A European Conference: Stimulating Concepts in Chemistry” 1 that was held in at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg; one of the research homes of Jean-Marie Lehn. The SFC is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a symposium entitled “Chemistry of the Future, the Future of Chemistry” in Paris to be held at “La Maison de la Chimie”, one of the oldest conference centers in France, a grand town house, situated in the middle of Paris. In the early 20th century the initial idea was born for such a conference center as a place to meet and foster communication between learned societies and between the societies and industry; it eventually became reality when its doors were opened in 1934. The SFC was initiated in 1857 by three students of the renowned chemists Antoine Jérôme Balard, Marcellin Pierre Berthelot, Michel Eugène Chevreul and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, with the aim of providing their members with the “latest progress in chemistry”. The following Editorial by Laurence Lestel and Igor Tkatchenko on page 5322 ff. takes a look at the evolution of chemistry over the last 150 years existence of the SFC and the Editorial by Rinaldo Poli and Max Malacria in the European Journals of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2007, 2366 and Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3062) provides more details about the history of the SFC itself. The anniversary symposium is divided into seven colloquia: Chemistry and the Needs of Society; Beyond Supramolecular Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials; Chemistry and Time; The Rise of Solid State Chemistry; Chemistry, Energy and Environment; and Chemistry and Drugs. In this issue of the journal, you will find papers by two of the plenary speakers, Steven Ley (p. 5515) and Jean-Marie Lehn (p. 5466), and a keynote speaker, Jean-Pierre Launay (p. 5622). In addition there are also contributions by Rinaldo Poli (p. 5347) and Max Malacria (p. 5426), members of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, respectively, as well as a wide selection of articles from many of the leading groups in the French chemical community. Over the years breakthroughs in the world of chemistry from France have been highlighted in many different ways. French chemistry has featured prominently on the cover of Chemistry—A European Journal: one by Jean-Marie Lehn et al., on light-triggered molecular devices (Chem. Eur. J. 1995, 1, 275) 1 appeared in the first volume of the journal, and work by Isabelle Rico-Lattes et al. on dermal drug delivery (Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 3039) was featured on a very recent issue. In addition, there have been numerous Full Papers highlighted with frontispieces; the one by Jean-Claude Chambron, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, et al. on “A [2]Catenane and a [2]Rotaxane as Prototypes of Topological and Euclidean Molecular 'Rubber Gloves'” was featured in our 100th issue (Chem. Eur. J. 2001, 7, 4085), 1 1 1 1 1 and the latest one is to be found in this issue by Dominique Lucas et al. on the generation, characterization, and electrochemical behavior of a palladium hydride cluster (this issue, p. 5338). The rich variety of research undertaken in France is also reflected in the number of articles published in the Concepts section of the journal. Since 1996 we have published many Concept articles from French correspondence authors (see Table 2), including the very first Concept article ever published in the journal by Jean Rouxel (who is also pictured on the cover of this issue) on “Anion–Cation Redox Competition and the Formation of New Compounds in Highly Covalent Systems” (Chem. Eur. J. 1996, 2, 1053), and three Concepts that appeared in the special issue for the first European Chemistry Congress held last year in Budapest (Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, issue 23), which also kicked off the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Hungarian Chemical Society. J. Rouxel Anion–Cation Redox Competition and the Formation of New Compounds in Highly Covalent Systems Chem. Eur. J. 1996, 2, 1053 J.-C. Chambron, J.-P. Sauvage Functional Rotaxanes: From Controlled Molecular Motions to Electron Transfer between Chemically Nonconnected Chromophores Chem. Eur. J. 1998, 4, 1362 J.-M. Lehn Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Virtual Combinatorial Libraries Chem. Eur. J. 1999, 5, 2455 O. Kahn et al. Molecular Magnetic Sponges Chem. Eur. J. 1999, 5, 3443 S. Matile, N. Sakai On the Electrostatics of Cell Membrane Recognition: From Natural Antibiotics to Rigid Push–Pull Rods Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 1731 J.-M. Lehn Programmed Chemical Systems: Multiple Subprograms and Multiple Processing/ Expression of Molecular Information Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 2097 H. Bienaymé et al. Maximizing Synthetic Efficiency: Multi-Component Transformations Lead the Way Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 3321 J.-F. Nierengarten Fullerodendrimers: A New Class of Compounds for Supramolecular Chemistry and Materials Science Applications Chem. Eur. J. 2000, 6, 3667 G. Jaouen et al. New and Efficient Routes to Biomolecules Substituted with Cyclopentadienyl tricarbonylrhenium and -Technetium Derivatives Chem. Eur. J. 2001, 7, 2289 J.-C. Plaquevent et al. New Insights in the Search for Chiral Brønsted Bases Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 3300 G. Férey, C. Mellot-Draznieks et al. Computational Design and Prediction of Interesting Not-Yet-Synthesized Structures of Inorganic Materials by Using Building Unit Concepts Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 4102 J.-F. Nierengarten, N. Armaroli et al. [60]Fullerene: A Versatile Photoactive Core for Dendrimer Chemistry Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 36 R. Poli High Oxidation State Organometallic Chemistry in Aqueous Media: New Opportunities for Catalysis and Electrocatalysis Chem. Eur. J. 2004, 10, 332 B. Bujoli, D. R. Talham et al. Metal Phosphonates Applied to Biotechnologies: A Novel Approach to Oligonucleotide Microarrays Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 1980 J.-F. Létard et al. A Guideline to the Design of Molecular-Based Materials with Long-Lived Photomagnetic Lifetimes Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 4582 N. Winssinger, J. L. Harris PNA Encoding (PNA=peptide nucleic acid): From Solution-Based Libraries to Organized Microarrays Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 6792 T. Billard Synthetic Applications of β-Fluoroalkylated, α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 974 C. Bruneau et al. Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl–Ruthenium Catalysts for Regio- and Enantioselective Allylation of Nucleophiles Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 5178 J.-M. Lehn Conjecture: Imines as Unidirectional Photodriven Molecular Motors— Motional and Constitutional Dynamic Devices Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 5910 G. Pratviel, B. Meunier Guanine Oxidation: One- and Two-Electron Reactions Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 6018 S. Zard, B. Quiclet-Sire Powerful Carbon–Carbon Bond Forming Reactions Based on a Novel Radical Exchange Process Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 6002 L. Valade et al. Ligand Influence on Connectivity and Processing: Magnetic Crystals Based on Metalloceniums and Films of TCNE-Based Magnets (TCNE=Tetracyanoethylene) Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 1650 The important contribution French chemists make to the success of Chemistry—A European Journal is illustrated here with a few statistics. A significant percentage of all papers submitted from the EU ChemSoc partner societies are from France (as can be seen in Figure 1), and over the years the number of submissions from French correspondence authors has also steadily increased (see Figure 1). According to the ISI Web of Science, 12 % of all papers published in Chemistry—A European Journal since 1995 contain at least one group participating from France. A list of our top ten most prolific French correspondence authors is given in Table 3. In addition, the Concept articles by Jean-Marie Lehn on “Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Virtual Combinatorial Libraries” and by Hugues Bienaymé et al. on “Maximizing Synthetic Efficiency: Multi-Component Transformations Lead the Way” are among the top five most cited articles published (according to the ISI Web of Science citation index) in Chemistry—A European Journal. 1 Left: Manuscript submission in 2006 from the EU ChemSoc partner countries. Right: Manuscript submissions from France over the period 1994 to 2006. Rank Author Rank Author 1 Jean-Marie Lehn 7 Guy Bertrand 2 Jean-Pierre Sauvage 7 Jean-Louis Pierre 3 Christian Amatore 7 Bruno Donnadieu 4 Maurice Gross 10 Louis Ricard 4 Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht 10 Daniel Guillon 6 Corinne Boudon 10 Francis Sécheresse We hope that you have enjoyed this short excursion into French chemistry and look forward to providing the ideal forum for presenting the best chemistry not only from France, but also the rest of the world in the future. The editorial team of Chemistry—A European Journal would like to wish the SFC all the best for their 150th anniversary and a successful conference.1
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