DOI: 10.1002/cctc.200900304

ChemCatChem : Looking To The Future

The first issue of ChemCatChem, the latest addition to Chem-PubSoc Europe and Wiley-VCH’s growing portfolio of chemistryperiodicals, was launched on August 28th, 2009, bringing to anend nearly a year’s worth of preparation. Initial reactions, gar-nered at various conferences throughout the world, includingEuropaCat 2009 in Salamanca, the German Chemical SocietyForum in Frankfurt, the 14th International Symposium on Rela-tions between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis inStockholm, and the 13th Asian Chemical Congress in Shanghai,have been overwhelmingly positive.

When ChemCatChem was firstlaunched, we made it the cen-tral part of our mission to bringdown the barriers between thevarious branches of catalysis,and our initial assumption thata journal was dearly neededthat catered for all fields of cat-alytic research, including heter-ogeneous, homogeneous andenzymatic catalysis, appears to

have been borne out by the quality of submissions we’ve beenable to accept already. Only ten months after the first call forpapers was sent out, ChemCatChem has received nearly 300submissions from all parts of the globe (Figure 1).

We feel that this, the first issue of our second volume, contin-ues along the path to attaining even greater heights. Onpage 103, you will find a provocative Viewpoint article fromRuslan Yuryev and Andreas Liese, which asks why biocatalysishas so long been considered the black sheep in the catalytic

Figure 1. Submissions to ChemCatChem divided according to country of origin (accurate to November 26th, 2009).

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ChemCatChem is an international journal covering all fields ofcatalysis. It is co-owned by 14 European Chemical Societies forming together the ChemistryPublishing Society Europe (ChemPubSoc Europe), supported by the German Catalysis Society(GeCatS), and published by Wiley-VCH. Publications in ChemCatChem will cover research intobiocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, and homogeneous catalysis, as well as that at theinterfaces of all three areas. ChemCatChem will publish Communications and Full Papers,Reviews and Minireviews, Highlights, Concepts, Essays, Book Reviews, and Conference Reports.Authors can submit articles to ChemCatChem online. Just go to our homepage(http://www.chemcatchem.org), click on “Online Submission of Manuscripts”, and follow theinstructions.

All of the articles in this issue have already appeared online in Wiley InterScience.See http://www.chemcatchem.org under EarlyView

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family and suggests some far-reaching consequences for itsbeing brought in from the cold. On page 41, Philippe Serp andEva Castillejos espouse upon catalysis inside the cavities ofcarbon nanotubes, without doubt one of the hot topics ofmodern catalysis. Furthermore, we bring you a veritable cornu-copia of primary research articles, covering the latest develop-ments across the whole spectrum of catalytic disciplines.

2009 also proved to be a big year for many of ChemCatChem’s sister journals. While ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChemare currently celebrating their 10th anniversaries, all of thejournals continue to go from strength to strength, reflected byincreased impact factors in 2009 for ChemPhysChem (3.636)and ChemMedChem (3.150). To celebrate the aforementioned

anniversaries, in May 2010, Wiley-VCH andChemPubSoc Europe, in collaboration withthe Soci�t� Chimique de France, will beholding a symposium in Paris entitledFrontiers of Chemistry : From Molecules toSystems. Catalysis will feature prominentlyin a stellar line-up of speakers, includingNobel Laureate and ChemCatChem Honora-ry Board Member, Gerhard Ertl (see left).

2010 will also see the first impact factor for ChemSusChem,which will surely reinforce its position as the top journal forsustainable chemistry publications. ChemSusChem should be ofparticular interest for readers of ChemCatChem, as catalysisplays a pivotal role in rendering chemical processes moresustainable.

The coming year will doubtless bring a whole new set ofchallenges, as we set about establishing ChemCatChem as thevehicle of choice for contributions from every corner of thecatalytic universe. With this in mind, we are very glad that, in

2010, ChemCatChem will once again be available for free to allinstitutional subscribers to Angewandte Chemie and any otherinstitutions who opt-in for free access, giving our authors aswide a potential audience as possible. With a view to increas-ing the journal’s visibility yet further, ChemCatChem will bemaintaining its strong presence at international conferences,and anticipate meeting many of our readers and authorsthroughout 2010, with representation at conferences includingthe Spring 2010 ACS Meeting in San Francisco in March andPacifiChem 2010 in Honolulu in December.

Finally, we would like to say thank you to our Editorial, Hono-rary, and International Advisory Board Members and to all ofour authors and referees, who have helped to get this journaloff to a flying start, for which we are very grateful. We wishyou every success in 2010, and look forward to bringing youall the very best in catalysis research over the next twelvemonths.

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