Stuttgart, February 2024 – Thieme is delighted to appoint Professor Debabrata Maiti of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India as the new Editor-in-Chief of the SYNLETT Editorial Board with immediate effect. SYNLETT – Thieme’s high-quality journal in synthetic chemistry – reports the latest scientific developments in the field. Professor Debabrata Maiti takes over the position from 2021 Nobel-Prize winner Professor Benjamin List, director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, who played a key role in shaping the journal in the past eight years.
SYNLETT is an international, single-anonymous peer-reviewed journal reporting research results and current trends in chemical synthesis in short, personalized reviews and preliminary communications. It covers all fields of organic chemistry involving synthesis, including catalysis, organometallic, medicinal, biological, and photochemistry, but also related disciplines. SYNLETT offers Select Crowd Review as an additional option to traditional peer review, which combines modern peer review with innovative technology. Former editor-in-chief, Professor Benjamin List, was the mastermind and developer of this process of joined peer review.
Professor Debabrata Maiti takes over the position of SYNLETT Editor-in-Chief as of January 1st, 2024. He is the first Editor-in-Chief from India in the history of Thieme Chemistry journals. Recently, he edited a special issue in SYNLETT together with Professor Benjamin List and Professor Santanu Mukherjee of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, highlighting the state of the art and the development of Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis in India (Part I and Part II). There are several new Clusters and Special Issues planned for 2024, as this format proved a resounding success in 2023.
“My vision for SYNLETT is rooted in fostering innovation, collaboration, and fairness so SYNLETT, in the spirit of scientific advancements, will continue to cater intellectual exchange, celebrate diversity, and reward the transformative power of scientific inquiry as an established scientific platform”, said Professor Debabrata Maiti. “I am honored to lead SYNLETT through an exciting new phase and aim to enhance the journal’s global reach by actively engaging researchers and authors across diverse sub-disciplines of synthetic chemistry.”
Debabrata Maiti was born in India in 1980 and obtained his BSc at RKM Vidyamandira, Belur Math in 2001 and his MSc in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Goutam Kumar Lahiri, IIT Bombay. In 2008, he completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth D. Karlin. After postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Bombay in 2011. Debabrata has received several awards, such as the 2013 Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, National Academy of Sciences, India, the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in 2013, and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2022, the highest recognition in the field of Indian science and technology. His research interests are focused on the development of remote C–H functionalization reactions, bioinspired catalysis, and new and sustainable synthetic and catalytic methodologies.
“We look forward to a fruitful collaboration with Professor Debabrata Maiti and SYNLETT editorial board members”, said Dr. Kathleen Too, Senior Vice President Thieme Chemistry. “We are confident that his leadership will inspire excellence, encourage collaboration, and facilitate the dissemination of groundbreaking research in organic synthesis.”
About SYNLETT
SYNLETT is an international, single-anonymous peer-reviewed journal reporting research results and current trends in chemical synthesis in short, personalized reviews and preliminary communications. It covers all fields of organic chemistry involving synthesis, including catalysis, organometallic, medicinal, biological, and photochemistry, but also related disciplines. Besides quality and data security, speed is of high importance in publishing research results. SYNLETT offers Select Crowd Review (SCR) as an additional option to traditional peer review.