Victor Snieckus was honored by colleagues and friends worldwide with the publication of two dedicated volumes in the January 2014 issue of the prominent journal Heterocycles, for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, especially to the reaction coined as the Directed ortho Metalation (DoM) which has achieved textbook Name Reaction status and has received wide application in the preparation of pharmaceuticals (anti-AIDS, anti-inflammatory) and agrochemicals (antifungal for grain crops).
The Special Issue of Heterocycles consisted of 170 papers (over 1600 pages) and a portrait sketched by a student, Adam McCubbin who received his PhD under cosupervision with Bob Lemieux and is now a Professor at the University of Winnipeg.