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Bruce Ganem, the Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry, has been named executive editor of Tetrahedron Letters. The weekly international journal of chemistry is published by Elsevier Science Ltd. Ganem also will become a member of the executive board of editors of Elsevier's chemistry journal group, called Tetrahedron Publications. Tetrahedron Letters was first published in 1959 by its founders Sir Robert Robinson and R.B. Woodward. It is the leading international journal for the rapid publication of research results in organic chemistry. Ganem, an expert in organic synthesis and bioorganic chemistry, joined the Cornell faculty in 1974 and served as department chair from 1993 to 1997. He succeeds H.H. Wasserman of Yale University, who served as executive editor of Tetrahedron Letters for 35 years.