**About the Editor**

### **Joseph Sloop**

Joseph C. Sloop was born in 1961 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1983, he received his B.S. with Special Attainments in Chemistry from Davidson College and began service in the U.S. Army. In 1990, he obtained his M.S. at North Carolina State University (NCSU) under the direction of Prof. Carl Bumgardner on the preparation of fluorinated heterocycles. After teaching at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point and continuing his service in the military, he completed doctoral training at NCSU with Prof. David Shultz in the field of magnetochemistry and returned to West Point to teach and conduct research with the USMA Photonics Research Center. In 2009, Dr. Sloop joined the faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), where he presently serves as a Professor of Chemistry for the School of Science and Technology. He is the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Achievement Award (2008), the GGC Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities (2012), a co-recipient of the Blackboard Catalyst Award (2012), and the Chronicle of Higher Education's Top 125 Tech Innovators on The Digital Campus (2013), and he was also named a Governor's Teaching Fellow and a GGC Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow in 2016. He has published more than forty papers, five book chapters, two organic chemistry laboratory manuals, and is the author of *Succeeding in Organic Chemistry: A Systematic Problem-Solving Approach to Structure, Function and Mechanism*. His research interests include selective fluorination methods of ketone and amine derivatives, solventless condensation reactions of indanones, green synthesis of fused-ring, fluorinated heterocyclic systems, as well as QSAR and computational studies of keto-enol tautomerism in diketones and their condensation reactions. Dr. Sloop holds memberships in the American Chemical Society, the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, and the Georgia Academy of Science.
