ACS Award Winners

Masakatsu Shibasaki Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Tokyo (Japan) A pioneer in the area of multifunctional asymmetric catalysis, his research interests lie in the development of new catalytic asymmetric reactions and their application to the synthesis of biologically important molecules. Other interests include the construction of quaternary chiral centers and sequential asymmetric catalysis.

Previous Winners
2008  Masakatsu Shibasaki 2007  Steven V. Ley 2006  Stephen L. Buchwald 2005  Chi-Huey Wong 2004  Tohru Fukuyama 2003  Scott E. Denmark 2002  Andrew G. Myers 2001  Eric N. Jacobsen 2000  Dennis P. Curran 1999  Dale L. Boger 1998  Paul A. Wender	1997  Amos B. Smith, III 1996  Teruaki Mukaiyama 1995  Larry E. Overman 1994  Stuart L. Schreiber 1993  K. C. Nicolaou 1992  Dieter Seebach 1991  Paul A. Grieco 1990  Clayton H. Heathcock 1989  Sir Derek H. R. Barton 1988  Robert E. Ireland 1987  Harry Wasserman	1986  Samuel J. Danishefsky 1985  Albert I. Meyers 1984  Leo A. Paquette 1983  K. Barry Sharpless 1982  David A. Evans 1981  Barry M. Trost 1980  Yoshito Kishi 1979  George A. Olah 1978  Satoru Masamune 1977  No Award 1976  Franz Sondheimer

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ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
(sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich since 1998)

Kenneth N. Raymond Chancellor's Professor, Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley (USA) A leading researcher in the areas of coordination and bioinorganic chemistry, specifically lanthanide and actinide coordination chemistry, iron chelation chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry.

Previous Winners
2008  Kenneth N. Raymond 2007  Sheldon G. Shore 2006  Karl E. Wieghardt 2005  William J. Evans 2004  Herbert W. Roesky 2003  Karl O. Christe	2002  Thomas B. Rauchfuss 2001  Edward I. Solomon 2000  Edward I. Stiefel 1999  Richard D. Adams 1998  Brice Bosnich

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Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods
(sponsored, in part, by Sigma-Aldrich since 1998)

Eric N. Jacobsen Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University (USA) Famous for, among others, the Jacobsen Mn(salen) catalyst and for the Jacobsen catalytic enantioselective epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins, Professor Jacobsen’s research interests have focused on the design of highly selective catalytic systems that are practical and widely applicable in organic synthesis, in particular the synthesis of valuable biologically active compounds.

Previous Winners
2008  Eric N. Jacobsen 2007  David A. Evans 2006  Richard F. Heck 2005  Gilbert Stork 2004  Edwin Vedejs 2003  Paul A. Wender	2002  Clayton H. Heathcock 2001  Robert H. Grubbs 2000  Samuel J. Danishefsky 1999  Barry M. Trost 1998  Herbert C. Brown

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