The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Erick M. Carreira as the next editor-in-chief of Organic Letters. The journal is the Society’s high-impact communications publication for the field of organic chemistry. Carreira will take over leadership in early 2019.
Carreira joined the faculty of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich) in the department of chemistry and applied biosciences in 1998, where he serves as a full professor of organic chemistry. His research focuses on a wide range of themes at the heart of organic chemistry, including the asymmetric synthesis of biologically active, stereochemically complex natural products.
Organic Letters published its first official issue in 1999 with the mission of publishing brief reports on cutting-edge research, creative approaches and innovative ideas in the fields of organic chemistry, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, and natural products isolation and synthesis. Carreira has been involved with the journal since its inception, first as an editorial advisory board member and then as an associate editor in 2000. In addition, he has authored more than 60 papers published in Organic Letters, including a paper published in the journal’s very first issue.
Carreira will succeed Amos B. Smith III, who is the journal’s inaugural editor-in-chief. Smith is the Rhodes-Thompson professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and a leader in the field of organic chemistry, particularly in the total synthesis of complex natural products.
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