Philippus F, Engel was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1965. He was educated in the State University of Utrecht and specialized in Organometallic Chemistry with Professor G. van Koten in 1989. He then moved to Strasbourg where he obtained his These de I'Universile Louis Pasteur in 1993. The subject of his Ph.D. thesis was on the organometallic chemistry of "Fischer-type" melallacarbynes. He recently joined Shell Research in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as an associate research chemist.Michel Pfeffer was bom in Alsace in 1948 and he received his Doctorat d'Etal from the Universite Louis Pasteur in 1975. In 1976 he spent one year wth Professor F. G. A. Stone at the University of Bristol. Since 1973 he has held a position in the CNRS at ULP Strasbourg where he became Directeur de Recherche in 1985. His main research interests are in the field of organomelallic chemistry with an emphasis on metalmediated syntheses of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds.