Excellence in Publishing with Chemxchem

CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL

Excellence in Publishing with ChemXChem Lisa Abel, Meghan Campbell, Neville Compton, Greta Heydenrych, Guido Kemeling, Kate Lawrence, Natalia Ortﬄzar,Michael Rowan, Marisa Spiniello, and Kira Welter[a]

ChemPubSoc Europe Journals are Dedicated announce that in 2014, ChemElectroChem will start publication to Excellence as the seventh journal in this highly successful series.

Over the years, far-reaching collaborations between the Euro- Selecting a ChemXChem journal for your work offers tremen- pean national chemical societies allied in ChemPubSoc Europe dous benefits for your research. All published articles are disse- and Wiley-VCH have resulted in arange of inter- minatedinvarious ways, including Early View and Table of nationally renowned top chemistry journals and Contents alerts, marketing campaigns, social media (LinkedIn, the news and information service Chemistry Facebook, and Twitter), and features such as the Spotlights Views.The first journals to launch under the um- section in our sister journals. Within the Wiley-VCH/ChemPub- brella of ChemPubSocEuropewere Chemistry: A Soc Europeprogramme, the journals are closely connected— European Journal (1995), the European Journal of also to AngewandteChemie (International Edition) and other Organic Chemistry (1998), and the European Jour- journals—with the aim to improvethe speed at which we nal of Inorganic Chemistry (1998). In 2000, the publishand the technical quality or the papers. The sections programme was expanded with the journals ChemBioChem below offer more detail on each title, allowing you to select and ChemPhysChem.Asof2013, in addition to these two titles, the journal that is best suited to your research work. the “ChemXChem”range includes ChemCatChem, ChemMed- Chem, ChemPlusChem,and ChemSusChem.Weare pleasedto Since the start of the first journals in the series in 2000, much has changed in the way journals are published and read. Digi- tal access is now the norm, research output across the globe [a] L. Abel, Dr.M.Campbell, Dr.N.Compton, Dr.G.Heydenrych, G. Kemeling, has increased tremendously,and the pros and cons of different K. Lawrence, Dr.N.Ortﬄzar,Dr. M. Rowan, Dr.M.Spiniello,K.Welter publishing models are fiercelydebated. We consider it our Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA Boschstrasse 12 duty to respondtothese developments in the community: 69469 Weinheim (Germany) Severalofour journals already operate on afully-digital strat-

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erations of therapeuticsbased on peptides and nucleic acids. Since its startin2000 as one of the first journalsonchemical biology, ChemBioChem has held its place among the leaders of this field for 13 years now.Inthis time, we have seen the rise of fields such as RNA interference, directed protein evolution using an expanded genetic code, and synthetic biology,which have been aided by the development of techniques such as single-molecule imaging and next-generationDNA sequenc- ing.

2013 has been an eventful year for ChemBioChem,aswe said farewell to our Deputy Editor,Dr. Adrian Neal, after three years with the journal,but welcomed anew Associate Editor, Dr.MeghanCampbell, to the team. Also this year,wepaid trib- Figure 1. Growth in the number of scientific articles published per year in all ute to the career of the late Professor Ivano Bertini, an Editorial of the ChemXChem journals. Scientific articles include:Articles, Communica- Board member since the beginning, with aspecial issue devot- tions, Concepts, Correspondence, Essays, Full Papers, Highlights, Minire- ed to spectroscopy in bio(in)organic chemistry,with guest edi- views, Reviews, and Viewpoints. tors Joshua Telser (Roosevelt University) and Harald Schwalbe (Universität Frankfurt). The outlook for ChemBioChem for2014 egy,also offering apps to browsecontent. The number of pub- is abusy one. We are lookingforward to aspecial issue on ex- lished articles has increased to keep up with the tremendous panding the geneticcodebyusing non-canonicalamino acids growth in research activity worldwide (Figure 1). And, all of our as well as abusy scheduleofnetworking with authors at journalsoffer OnlineOpen as away to publish your article as chemicalbiology conferences. an Open Access contribution.The evolution of research communication will continueinthe future,and we will contribute This publication gives us the opportunity to highlight the to this development and offer our services in the best possible best of ChemBioChem from 2013, with awide range of topics. way. First, we selected an excellent Review by Barbara Imperiali et al. Imperiali (MIT) serves as one of the Chairs of the Editorial One thing does not change, though: researchers want to Advisory Board;the others are Thomas Carell (LMU Munich) keep themselves informed of the latest and most important and Donald Hilvert (ETH Zürich). The Review by Imperiali and developments in their field, and this remains the guiding prin- Krueger summarizes techniques and applications for the incor- ciple of the ChemXChem journals:high-quality scientific con- poration of fluorescent amino acids into polypeptides. This tent tailored to specific audiences. We have selected superb ar- area has always been astrong one for ChemBioChem,and this ticles published in these titlesin2013, and apreview of two Review serves as avaluable resource for all those lookingto top articles from ChemElectroChem,and offer them free to site-specifically label proteins. We have also selected aFull read. We trust that you will enjoy this selection of high-quality Paper from three top research groups at the University of Cam- science! bridge. Hyvçnen and co-workers have used afragment-based approachtoscreen small-molecule suppressors of the breast ChemBioChem cancer gene (BRCA2) by disrupting its interaction with RAD51. Finally,wehighlight an important contribution to the field of DNA biotechnology from Andreas Marx et al. Their crystal structures of two of the “error-prone” familyofDNA poly- merases in acomplex with their substrate DNA duplex should prove highly valuable to those interested in synthesizing func- Start: 2000 tional nucleic acids with modified nucleobases. Editor-in-Chief: Peter Gçlitz ManagingEditor: Lisa Abel Associate Editor: MeghanCampbell ChemCatChem Homepage: http://www.chembiochem.org https://www.facebook.com/pages/chembiochem/ 167014003430427 @ChemBioChem

Looking back at the year 2013, ChemBioChem has seen Start: 2009 awealth of exciting topics emerge from its pages. Chemical Editor-in-Chief: Michael Rowan biology is abroad field that is acceleratingquickly in the areas Homepage: http://www.chemcatchem.org of protein engineering, labeling of biomolecules, and new gen- @ChemCatChem

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ChemCatChem is key reading for awide range of researchers the journal. Dr.RainerMetternich and Prof. Giorgio Tarzia are from all formsofcatalysis. ChemCatChem seeks to bring down co-chairsofthe Editorial Board. the barriers betweenhomogeneous, heterogeneous, bio-, and nanocatalysis and to promote communication within and be- The articles selected are intended to give aflavor of the diver- tween these communities. Its authors and readers come from sity of indications and topics covered in ChemMedChem.The academia, the chemical industry,and government laboratories journal has gained areputation for excellence in medicinal across the world. Indeed, last year ChemCatChem published chemistry research for rare andneglected diseases,with the manuscripts by authors representing over 40 countries. recent article from Ballell et al. showcasing this. The article is also OnlineOpen, the Wiley-VCH open-access option available Asasnapshot of the catalysis that we publish, we present in in all the journals;for aset fee, an article can be made open- this “Highlights of 2013” issue some remarkable papers. The access immediatelyupon publication. The article on Smooth- Review by De Chen and co-workers was invited for the excel- ened inhibitors by Peukert et al. was considered to be very im- lent special issue “World of Catalysis—A Perspective from the portant by the reviewers and so was given “Very Important Netherlands” (issue 2, 2013) guest edited by Harry Bitter and Paper” (VIP) status; VIP articles are typicallyfeatured on the Barbara Mojet. The Reviewarticle presents abroad overview of cover of the journal, and written up for broader distribution in the topic of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers in heter- the form of press releases and news pieces. Finally,the Minire- ogeneouscatalysis. The Communication by YasushiObora and view on carboxylic acidbioisosteres by Ballatore et al. has co-workerspresents an unprecedented aerobic palladium(II)- been very well received, as it outlines ways in whichmedicinal catalyzed arylation of acrylamides. The reactionishighly che- chemists have been able to use isostericreplacements to moselective and that chemoselectivity is subtly controlled by retain the benefits of carboxylic acid functional groups,while the amount of ligand used. The Full Paper by Steven V. Ley circumventing their drawbacks. and co-workerswas judged to be very important by reviewers and is an excellent and very detailed manuscript describing ChemPhysChem agas–liquid flow system for Heck reactions involving ethylene gas and (telescoped) hydroformylations using syngas. This Full Paper highlights the use of several recent innovations by the Ley group in flow chemistry. ChemCatChem would love foryou to become part of our broad catalysis community.Itwould be great if we couldin- Start: 2000 clude your work, and with this in mind we look forward to re- Editor-in-Chief: Greta Heydenrych ceiving your next excellent manuscript! Homepage: http://www.chemphyschem.org @ChemPhysChem ChemMedChem ChemPhysChem aims to publish the most exciting new re- sults at the interface between chemistry and physics, including biophysics, nanoscience, and materials-related topics. Since its launch in 2000 by the French and German Chemical Societies (together with Wiley-VCH), ChemPhysChem has continuously Start: 2006 grown to become one of the leading journals in its field. Editor-in-Chief: Natalia Ortﬄzar Today,itispublished on behalfofseveral chemicalsocieties in- Homepage: http://www.chemmedchem.org volved in ChemPubSocEurope and appears 18 times per year. https://www.facebook.com/ChemMedChem The quality of the papers featured in ChemPhysChem is en- @ChemMedChem sured by astrict peer-reviewing process and backed up by an outstanding Editorial Advisory Board, which is co-chaired by ChemMedChem is aleadingjournal at the interface of Prof. Christian Amatore (Ecole Normale SupØrieure),Prof. Mi- chemistry and medicine, covering all aspects of medicinal chael Grätzel (Ecole Polytechnique FØdØrale de Lausanne), and chemistry,from traditional structure–activity relationship stud- Prof. Michel Orrit (Universiteit Leiden). ies to more emergent topics in drug discovery and development such as vaccine development and chemical proteomics. Each issue of ChemPhysChem contains contributions of the Like its sister journals, ChemMedChem publishes primary re- highest standard, which are submitted by authors from around search resultsinthe form of both Full Papers and Communica- the globe and presented as anice mixture of Review-typeArti- tions, and also features secondary and tertiary articles such as cles, Highlights, Essays, Full Papers, and Communications. Reviews, Minireviews, Highlights, Concepts, and Viewpoints. ChemPhysChem also regularly publishes special issues on topi- The Italian and German chemical societies (SCI and GDCh, re- cal subjects including electrochemistry and energy,atmospher- spectively) were particularly instrumental in the founding of ic chemistry,single molecules, functionalmaterials, and ad- ChemMedChem and are joined by the 14 other European vancedcomputational methods. ChemPhysChem’sbest content chemicalsocieties of ChemPubSocEurope in co-ownership of is regularly promoted on Twitter and Chemistry Views,aswell

2014Wiley-VCH VerlagGmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim ChemBESTOFChem 2014,3–7 5 CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL as on the journal’snews site and the newly createdsection de Groot and co-workers, the Full Paper on the Preparation of “Editor’sSelection”. The visibility of papers published in Chem- Fluorescent Tubulin BindersbyG.Cappelletti, J. S. Snaith, and PhysChem is further enhanced at conferencesand throughco- D. Passarella and co-workers, and the Communication on 0D operation with the sister journals. The Minireview on “Surface- to 1D Switching of Hybrid Polyoxometalate Assemblies by Y.-F. Tension-Confined Microfluidics and Their Applications”(by H. Lee Song and co-workers, clearly illustrate the key aim of Chem- and co-workers), the Full Paper on “Nuclear Magnetic Reso- PlusChem to bring readers the very best in multidisciplinary re- nance of Hydrogen Molecules Trapped inside C70 Fullerene Cages” search centering on chemistry. (by S. Mamone and co-workers), and the Concepton“Elucidat- ing Inorganic Nanoscale Species in Solution: Complementary and ChemSusChem Corroborative Approaches”(by J. E. Hutchison, D. W. Johnson, and co-workers) should give the readers ataste of what to expect when browsing through ChemPhysChem.

ChemPlusChem Start: 2008 Editor-in-Chief: Guido Kemeling Homepage: http://www.chemsuschem.org @ChemSusChem

Start: 2012 Sustainability is acentral theme in society nowadays. Humani- Editor-in-Chief: Neville Compton ty is facing several issues such as climatechange,population Deputy Editor: Marisa Spiniello growth, changes in population demographics,resource scarci- Homepage: http://www.chempluschem.org ty,and pollution,that are forcing us to change our ways. Scien- https://www.facebook.com/ChemPlusChem tists have taken on these challenges and are applying their @ChemPlusChem skills towards solving these problems. Wit this in mind, the Ital- ian Chemical Society (SCI) together with the other members of ChemPubSoc Europe decided to revampthe journal Annali di When the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Chimica at the end of 2007. Achange to abroader journal on (IOCB) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic felt it sustainability wasrather natural, as Annali di Chimica already was time to revitalize the journal Collection of Czechoslovak had astrong tradition in publishing work on environmental ChemicalCommunications (CCCC), it chose to put agreater em- issues. phasis on collaborative work and multidisciplinary research. With this in mind, the IOCB teamed up with ChemPubSoc The first issue of ChemSusChem appeared in 2008. The journal Europeand Wiley-VCH and the journal was transformed into is dedicated to publishing the most important scientific devel- ChemPlusChem.Accordingly, ChemPlusChem began with opments towards sustainable chemistryand the materials of volume77, following on from 76th andlast volume of CCCC. the future.These developments include fields such as carbon Like its predecessor, ChemPlusChem is fully digitaland offers captureand storage, carbon dioxide chemistry,solar fuels and free color graphics to all authors. Uniquely,for ageneral hydrogen generation (for example by water splitting), hydro- chemistry journal, every article published in ChemPlusChem gen storage, battery technologies, solarcells and other photo- covers at least two different subfields of chemistry or one of voltaic technologies, improved catalysts and materials based chemistry and one of another scientific discipline. on earth-abundant metals, and renewable chemicals and fuels. The diversity of topics covered by the journal is expressed by The high quality of ChemPlusChem is not only ensured the backgroundsofthe members of the Editorial Board,of through the links with its sister journalsbut also through its which Gabriele Centi (Univ.ofMessina), MatthiasBeller (Univ. Editorial Board, which is co-chaired by Prof. Matthias Driess of Rostock), and Licheng Sun (KTH Sweden, and Dalian Univer- (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Prof. Michal Hocek sity of Technology) serve as Chairmen. (Institute of Organic Chemistry,Czech Republic), and Prof. Nico Sommerdijk (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Nether- The top papers selected for this compilation also reflect the lands) and features afurther 10 highly reputable members, as breadthoftopics the journal covers. The Review by Francesco well as an International Advisory Board,who were selectedfor Zaera covers akey technology for sustainability: catalysis. In their wide-ranging fields of expertise. Visibility for the best catalysis not only the catalyst materialisimportant, but in the papers in ChemPlusChem is enhanced by regular features on case of heterogeneous catalysis the shape of the material also ChemistryViews,Cover Profiles, and promotion of the journal matters, as different facets of acatalytic particle may have very and its content in newsletters and at conferences throughout different reactivities. Tailoring that shape enables optimum use the year.The three articles chosen to be highlighted herein, of resources and, in turn, improved processes. Another impor- namely,the Minireview on Molecular Catalytic Assemblies for tant topic of the journal is biomass conversion,and the Full Electrodriven Water Splitting by K. S. Joya, F. Buda, and H. J. M. Paper by Kostas Triantafyllidisetal. describes an improvement

2014Wiley-VCH VerlagGmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim ChemBESTOFChem 2014,3–7 6 CHEMBEST OFCHEM EDITORIAL in pretreating cellulose for subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis. With an experienced in-house editorialteam andawealth of The hydrothermaltreatment leads to alarger surface area and expertise coming from the editorialboard, fronted by chairper- pore volume, which gives the enzymes better access to the sons Wolfgang Schuhmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Bing- materialand produce glucose. Finally,Xin-bo Zhang et al. Wei Mao (Xiamen University), and Jean-Marie Tarascon(Univer- report in their Communication on sodium-ion batteries;arapid- sitØ de Picardie, Amiens), ChemElectroChem is making great ly growing alternative to lithium-ion batteries. They use nitro- progress, having already received severalhundred submissions gen-doped porous carbons (abundant elements!) as anode from all over the world. Many articles are already availableon material, improving characteristics such as reversible capacity, Early View.The first issue of ChemElectroChem is set to show- cycling stability, and rate capability. case the research of its editorial board in adedicated special issue out in January 2014. This is to be followed by awealth of Welook forward to receiving your next excellent manuscript additional groundbreaking electrochemical research in further on sustainability! issues in 2014 and beyond.

Inthis special publication, we highlight two articles that have New in 2014:ChemElectroChem already been published in Early View.Firstly,aCommunication by Editorial Board member Yu-Guo Guo and his co-worker Xiaosi Zhou (ChineseAcademy of Sciences, Beijing) that focus- es on the fabrication of ahighly disordered carbon material for room-temperature sodium-ion batteries. Electrical energy stor- Start: 2014 age is acrucial research area, as the design and fabrication of Editor-in-Chief: Greta Heydenrych new energy-storage devices is likely to be instrumental in ad- Homepage: http://www.chemelectrochem.org dressingsome of the global concerns regarding energy short- @ChemElectroChem ages and other related environmental issues.Second is aFull Paper by Elena Savinova (ICPEES, Strasbourg) et al. that pres- March 2013 saw the doors open for submissions to the latest ents ascanning photoelectron microscopy study on amem- journal in the family: ChemElectroChem.Aselectrochemistry brane–electrode assembly in ahigh-temperature polymer ex- has grown and blossomed from asubdivision of physical change membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Aphosphoric-acid-imbi- chemistry into auniversal topic of its own, it is no longer bed polymer membrane is studied in aPEMFC under polariza- anichearea but abroad and flourishing research division. tion, allowing in-depthinsightinto the processes that occur ChemElectroChem is dedicated to covering the entire scope of within fuel cells. Although batteries and fuel cells represent electrochemical research, including fundamental electrochem- areas of exciting growth, there is much more on offer from istry,energy storage and applications,photo- and bioelectro- ChemElectroChem.With amixture of Review articles, Full chemistry,electroanalytical applications,aswell as ahost of Papers,Concepts, Communications, and Highlights, ChemElec- other related topics. troChem is committed to publishing high-quality research on all aspects of electrochemistry.

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