Editorial BoardChairman: Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Nagoya (Japan) and RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)Mark J. Burk, Genomatica, Inc., San Diego, CA (USA)Eric N. Jacobsen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)Chi-Huey Wong, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (USA) and Academia Sinica,Taipei (Taiwan)

Industrial Advisory BoardHans-Ulrich Blaser, Solvias, Basel (Switzerland)Boy Cornils, Hofheim (Germany)Johannes G. de Vries, DSM, Geleen (The Netherlands)Bernhard Hauer, BASF, Ludwigshafen (Germany)Joel M. Hawkins, Pfizer, Groton, CT (USA)Kunisuke Izawa, Ajinomoto Co., Kawasaki (Japan)Hidenori Kumobayashi, Takasago International Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)Rainer Metternich, Merck & Co., West Point, PA (USA)William A. Nugent, Vertex Pharmaceutical Co., Cambridge, MA (USA)Oljan Repic, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, East Hanover, NJ (USA)David Rozzell, BioCatalytics, Burbank, CA (USA)Rudolf Schmid, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel (Switzerland)Ichiro Shinkai, Tokyo (Japan)Howard W. Turner, Symyx Technologies, Santa Clara, CA (USA)Ralph P. Volante, Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ (USA)

Academic Advisory BoardHoward Alper, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (Canada)Jan E. B�ckvall, Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden)R. Thomas Baker, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (Canada)Jos� Barluenga, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo (Spain)Matthias Beller, Universit�t Rostock, Rostock (Germany)Donna G. Blackmond, Imperial College, London (UK)Carsten Bolm, RWTH Aachen, Aachen (Germany)Maurice S. Brookhart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (USA)John M. Brown, Oxford University, Oxford (UK)Erick Carreira, ETH Z�rich, Z�rich (Switzerland)Albert S. C. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China)Elias J. Corey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)Dennis P. Curran, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)Pierre Dixneuf, Universit� de Rennes 1, Rennes (France)Michael P. Doyle, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (USA)David A. Evans, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)Ben L. Feringa, University of Groningen, Groningen (The Netherlands)Wolf-Dieter Fessner, Universit�t Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)Jean M. J. Fr�chet, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (USA)Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)Alois F�rstner, Max Planck Institut f�r Kohlenforschung, M�lheim (Germany)Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (USA)Tamio Hayashi, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)G�nter Helmchen, Universit�t Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)J. Bryan Jones, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada)Henri B. Kagan, Universit� de Paris-Sud, Orsay (France)Paul Knochel, Universit�t M�nchen, M�nchen (Germany)Gerard van Koten, Utrecht University, Utrecht (The Netherlands)Horst Kunz, Universit�t Mainz, Mainz (Germany)Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, ICIQ, Tarragona (Spain)Walter Leitner, RWTH Aachen, Aachen (Germany)Steven V. Ley, Cambridge University, Cambridge (UK)David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA)Shinji Murai, Japan Science and Technology Corp., Osaka (Japan)Junzo Otera, Okayama University of Science, Okayama (Japan)Larry E. Overman, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (USA)Manfred T. Reetz, Max Planck Institut f�r Kohlenforschung, M�lheim (Germany)Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)K. Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (USA)Roger A. Sheldon, Delft University of Technology, Delft (The Netherlands)Masakatsu Shibasaki, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)Victor Snieckus, Queen's University, Kingston, ON (Canada)Keisuke Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (Japan)Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)Antonio Togni, ETH-Z�rich, Z�rich (Switzerland)Barry M. Trost, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (USA)Jonathan M. J. Williams, University of Bath, Bath (UK)Hisashi Yamamoto, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA)

EditorJoe P. Richmond

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Associate EditorsThomas KastTobias Burkert

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