The Guest Editor of the Review

Bob Crabtree, educated at New College, Oxford, U.K. with Malcolm Green, did his Ph.D. research with Joseph Chatt at Sussex and then spent four years in Paris with Hugh Felkin at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He has been at Yale University since 1977, where he is now Professor. He has received several awards: A. P. Sloan Fellow, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, American Chemical Society (ACS) and Royal Society of Chemistry organometallic chemistry prizes, H. C. Brown Lecturer, Mack Award, Baylor Medal and Sabatier Lecturer. He has chaired the Inorganic Division at the ACS. He is the author of a textbook in the organometallic field, and editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry” and “Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry”. Early research on catalytic alkane C–H activation and functionalisation chemistry was followed by work on C–F bond activation, H₂ complexes, M–H…H–O hydrogen bonding, and molecular recognition in C–H activation. His homogeneous hydrogenation catalyst is in wide use.