Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry appoints two new Section Editors

Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Section Editors, Professors Larry Falvello and Jonathan White.

Since 1991, Falvello has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza, where he is also a member of the Aragón Materials Science Institute. Falvello's research programme in the physical properties and transformations of molecular solids combines the synthesis of new coordination compounds of transition metals and lanthanoids, using ligands rich in functional groups, with their structural characterization and studies of their physical properties and possible transformations.

Falvello has been Co-Editor at Acta Crystallographica Section C since 2002 and served as Deputy Section Editor in 2013-2014. He was Associate Editor of Comments on Inorganic Chemistry from 2002 to 2014. Having been trained near the end of the "old times" of crystallography and having lived the advances of the past four decades, he sees Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry as being uniquely positioned to maintain rigorous standards in the publication and conservation of structural results, while at the same time providing its readers with the extended chemical context that motivated a particular study and, more importantly, with the advances in chemical understanding that resulted from that study.

White was appointed to the University of Melbourne School of Chemistry in 1991, and has been Professor of Chemistry there since 2014.

White’s wide research programme includes structural organic chemistry, where he has applied the Structure Correlation Principle to a number of organic chemical reactions and rearrangements. He is also particularly interested in the use of accurate low-temperature X-ray determinations of model organic compounds to investigate donor-acceptor interactions between a variety of functional groups in both organic and organometallic compounds.

White has been Co-Editor at Acta Crystallographica Section C since 2011. He has been the Associate Editor for crystallography for the Australian Journal of Chemistry from 2010 and is a consultant crystallographer to the ACS journal Organic Letters.

Both see Acta Crystallographica Section C as a journal of chemical crystallography where significant structures are presented in the context of the underlying chemistry. They see the journal being of interest to a wide audience from materials scientists and structural chemists to researchers using amongst other techniques, magnetic resonance, electronic spectroscopy, and those involved in computational modelling and the knowledge-based exploration of chemical structures.

You can see a list of IUCr papers published by Professor J.M. White here, and IUCr papers published by Professor Larry Falvello here.