Professor Leslie D. Field, Professor of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia, has built up an international reputation for his research on novel reagents containing coordinatively unsaturated transition metals and for his extensive work in the field of NMR spectroscopy including novel studies on heteronuclear coherence transfer and multiple quantum NMR. Field was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney 1990 to 2005 and Head of the School of Chemistry from 1997 to 2001. He has also been the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at UNSW since April 2005. Dr Alison Magill is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Field Group in the School of Chemistry, UNSW, with main areas of research in organometallic chemistry, catalysis and NMR spectroscopy, with a particular focus on the activation and functionalisation of small molecules such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2). Dr Hsiu Lin Li is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Field Group in the School of Chemistry, UNSW, with main areas of research in organometallic chemistry, catalysis and NMR spectroscopy, with a particular focus on the activation and functionalisation of small molecules such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2).