TETRAHEDRON PRIZE FOR CREATIVITY IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2008 AWARDED TO PROFESSOR LARRY E. OVERMAN TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2009 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ABOUT THE TETRAHEDRON PRIZE

TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2008 AWARDED TO PROFESSOR LARRY E. OVERMAN

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 2008 has been awarded to Professor Larry E. Overman of the University of California at Irvine, CA. 

Professor Larry E. Overman has been awarded the Tetrahedron Prize in recognition of his creative and innovative contributions in reaction design, notably the invention of cationic cyclization reactions such as the aza-Cope-Mannich reaction.

The Tetrahedron Prize will be presented to Professor Larry E. Overman at the Fall 2009 ACS Meeting in Washington, DC.  The date for the Prize Symposium and presentation of the Award is Monday, 17 August 2009.

TETRAHEDRON PRIZE 2009 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Submission of Nominations: Deadline: 1 May 2009.

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