TETRAHEDRON PRIZE FOR CREATIVITY IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2009 AWARDED TO PROFESSOR STEVEN V.LEY TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2010 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ABOUT THE TETRAHEDRON PRIZE

TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2009 AWARDED TO PROFESSOR STEVEN V. LEY

The Executive Board of Editors and Elsevier, the Publisher of Tetrahedron Publications, are delighted to announce that the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry for 2009 has been awarded to Professor Steven V. Ley, CBE, FRS, the 1702 BP Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK.  Professor Ley has made many seminal contributions to the fields of synthetic organic methodology, chemical technology and complex natural product synthesis, publishing almost 700 research papers to date.   

Highlights in the methodology / technology arena include synthetic applications of iron tricarbonyl complexes, the TPAP ruthenium-based catalyst for oxidations (with W. P. Griffith), microbial oxidation procedures, enantioselective organocatalysts, use of 1,2-diacetals, encapsulated reagents, immobilized reagents in multi-step organic synthesis, and flow technology.

In terms of complex natural products, the Ley group have completed well over 120 total syntheses, many utilizing their own methodology.  Here major achievements include the synthesis of avermectin B1, azadirachtin, bengazole A, epothilone A, nonactic acid, okadaic acid, rapamycin, spongistatin 1 and thapsigargin.   

The Tetrahedron Prize will presented to Professor Ley at the Fall 2010 ACS National Meeting in  Boston, MA, USA.  The  provisional date for the Prize Symposium and presentation of the Award is  Monday August 23, 2010.

  
TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2010 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Submission of Nominations: Deadline: 1 May 2010.

Nominations should consist of a covering letter summarising the achievements of the individual (max. 1,500 words), a brief biographical sketch of the nominee, a list of no more than 25 publications and up to two seconding letters of support. A template to facilitate submission can be downloaded by clicking   here.

Apart from the reservations made above, nominations are welcomed for candidates of all ages and nationalities for the award of the Tetrahedron Prize. The Prize jury is made up of the Executive Board of Editors of Tetrahedron Publications. Members of the Executive Board may not be candidates, nor make nominations. Consulting Editors, who do not have an executive function and do not vote for the Prize, are eligible candidates.

For further information on the Tetrahedron Prize, please contact:
Diddel Francissen, Executive Publisher, Elsevier, Chemistry.
Email: d.francissen@elsevier.com

  
ABOUT THE TETRAHEDRON PRIZE

The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry was established in 1980 by the Executive Board of Editors and the Publisher of Tetrahedron Publications. It is intended to honour the memory of the founding co-Chairmen of these publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor Robert Burns Woodward.

The Tetrahedron Prize is awarded on an annual basis for creativity in Organic Chemistry. The prize consists of a gold medal, a citation, and a monetary award of US $10,000. It is awarded to an Organic Chemist who has made significant original contributions to the field, in its broadest sense. On some occasions, the Prize may be awarded jointly to two winners in which case two medals are presented. The winner is expected to write an appropriate article for Tetrahedron or Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry as part of a Symposium-in-Print compiled in their honour.

Previous Recipients:

• 1981 Albert Eschenmoser
• 1983 Elias J. Corey
• 1985 Gilbert Stork
• 1987 Arthur J. Birch
• 1989 Michael J. S. Dewar
• 1991 William S. Johnson
• 1993 Ryoji Noyori;  K. Barry Sharpless
• 1995 Alan R. Battersby;  A. Ian Scott
• 1996 Samuel Danishefsky
• 1997 Stuart L. Schreiber
• 1998 David A. Evans;  Teruaki Mukaiyama
• 1999 Henri B. Kagan
• 2000 Peter B. Dervan
• 2001 Yoshito Kishi
• 2002 Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
• 2003 Robert H. Grubbs;  Dieter Seebach
• 2004 Koji Nakanishi
• 2005 Bernd Giese
• 2006 Hisashi Yamamoto
• 2007 J. Fraser Stoddart
• 2008 Larry E. Overman
• 2009 Steven V. Ley