The Reviewer

Thomas Colacot is a Research and Development Manager in the Catalysis and Chiral Technologies Division at Johnson Matthey, West Deptford, U.S.A. with global reports and responsibilities. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and an MBA in Strategic Management. He is involved in the development of new organometallic compounds for catalysis, process development, supported homogeneous catalysts and high throughput screening of catalysts for organic reactions, such as C–C couplings and C–heteroatom couplings. He is also a visiting faculty member of Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Chemistry, where he teaches an applied organometallic chemistry course relevant to the fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. He has published over fifty papers, in addition to giving numerous lectures all over the world.