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Chemical Synthesis
ACS Award Winners
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ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
(sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich since 1976)
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Hisashi Yamamoto
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago (USA)
Professor Yamamoto’s research efforts have focused on the discovery and development of novel synthetic catalysts, reagents, and methods, with the aim of effecting exceptionally efficient syntheses of organic molecules of interest. His outstanding contributions in the areas of Lewis and Bronsted acid catalysis, organoaluminum chemistry, and asymmetric synthesis have led to the disclosure of what have become important tools in organic synthesis. These include such reagents, catalysts, and ligands as MAD, ATPH, CAB, hafnium and vanadium catalysts, 8-hydroxyquinole, and the so-called "Yamamoto's reagent", an allylic organobarium reagent.
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| 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)
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Daniel G. Nocera
The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
The investigation of basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biological and chemical systems has been at the center of Professor Nocera’s research program. His research group’s rare blend of skills in synthetic chemistry, photochemistry, computational chemistry, and spectroscopy has allowed him to make fundamental and practical contributions to this important and presently very relevant research field. Some of the areas that Professor Nocera and his team are actively focusing on are supramolecular chemistry, nanofabrication, and the synthesis of hydrothermal materials. |
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| 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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