SCOTT E. DENMARK is the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has pioneered the concept of chiral Lewis base activation of Lewis acids for catalysis in main group synthetic organic chemistry. His group has also developed palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings with organofunctional silicon compounds. He has won a number of honors including the Pedler and Robert Robinson Medals, the Aldrich Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Prelog Medal. He was a founding editor of the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis and served as Editor in Chief of Organic Reactions from 2008 to 2018. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.