ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
(sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich since 1976)
Erick M. Carreira
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Carreira Research Group
Prof. Erick Carreira’s research program is nicely balanced between methodology development and total synthesis aimed to application in biological systems. Indeed, recent methodological work from the Carreira group has focused on the allylation of a variety of nucleophiles (ammonia equivalents, vinyl potassium trifluoroborates, thiols). These transformations are rendered stereospecific through use of novel phosphoramidite-olefin ligands. Synthetically, the Carreira group has recently disclosed elegant approaches to biologically relevant targets such as chlorosulfolipid cytotoxins and Erythronolide A- a true classic in total synthesis. |
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| Previous Winners |
2012 Gregory C. Fu
2011 David W. C. MacMillan
2010 Ei-ichi Negishi
2009 Hisashi Yamamoto
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 |
ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
(sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich since 1998)
Daniel DuBois
Chemical & Materials Sciences Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.A.)
Dr. DuBois has focused his catalytic efforts on the topical fields of CO2 reduction and H2 oxidation. To this last, he and his colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have recently developed a mononuclear Fe-based catalyst capable of oxidizing H2 at ambient temperature, thereby converting chemical energy to electricity using a cheap and highly abundant metal source. The high efficiency of this Fe-complex is attributed to the creatively designed diphosphine ligand employed, which contains two pendant amines capable of serving as proton relays during the oxidation process. |
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| Previous Winners |
2012 Clifford P. Kubiak
2011 Robert J. Cava
2010 Donald J. Darensbourg
2009 Daniel G. Nocera
2008 Kenneth N. Raymond
2007 Sheldon G. Shore
2006 Karl E. Wieghardt
2005 William J. Evans
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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 |
