ACS Award Winners

ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
(sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich since 1976)

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.

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)

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.

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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