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Dedication of the Silver Anniversary Volume to Joseph F. Bunnett, Founding Editor

Accounts of Chemical Research is Joe Bunnett. He played a central role in its design and refined this over the years 19661986. In preparing this editorial, I found Joe's 1966 letter inviting me to join the Editorial Advisory Board, setting forth the objective that "this is to be a journal of concise, critical reviews of limited scope written by scientists personally responsible for much of the re- search described". You will still find these objectives on the masthead of the current issue. Other characteristics that he pioneered have stood the test of time equally well. His 'strict" six-page length limit is still appreciated by our readers, although not always by our authors.

Accounts has received recognition whose height and breadth are both unique. Many scientific journals now carry 'Accounts", the height of flattery. For the period 1980-1989, the Institute of Scientific Information (The Scientist, April 1, 1991) ranked Accounts as first among 300 chemistry journals, based on reference frequency from the Science Citation Index. Unfortunately, for the year 1989 Accounts ranks second to Chemical Reuiews, but of

course Bunnett cannot he blamed for this slippage. For damage control, your current Editor is pleased to report that Bunnett has iust consented to ioin our Editorial Ad- visory Board.

However. the illustrious other authors of this issue have prepared their Accounts to honor Joe Bunnett the scien- tist. Their Contributions provide details of his many sin- gular research achievements. These authors were originally invited to present these papers at the Bunnett Retirement Symposium in Santa Cruz last May. The extra "chemophilately" article, a first for Accounts, honors Bunnett's broad artistic and scientific interests.

This first Accounts special issue in 25 years is in rec- ognition of Professor Joseph F. Bunnett, who somehow managed to create and establish a premier scientific journal while making outstanding research contributions to chemistry.

Fred W. McLafferty Editor

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