Congratulations to Tyler Davis from Vanderbilt University, USA, who won the Chemical Science poster prize at the Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes held on 18-23 July at Bryant University, Rhode Island, USA.
From left to right: Rodney Parsons (vice chair), Tyler Davis (poster prize winner), Joanne Thomson (deputy editor, Chemical Science), Richard Hsung (chair) and Todd Nelson (vice chair)
Tyler was invited to give a short oral presentation on his work entitled ‘Chiral proton catalysis: Guidelines for the development of more reactive bifunctional catalysts, and the first enantioselective synthesis of chiral cis-4,5-disubstituted imidazolines’.
The conference marked its 57th consecutive year in existence, celebrating the diversity in organic chemistry. Topics included natural product total synthesis, method development, catalytic transformations and reaction mechanisms, with the speakers and audience reflecting the broad impact organic chemistry has had both in academia and industry.
Many thanks to the conference chair, Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin), and vice chairs, Rodney Parsons (Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Todd Nelson (Merck & Co), for organising such a superb conference and helping to judge the posters.
