Congratulations to all the winners of poster prizes at the 6th International Symposium of Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry held on 3-7 th July 2011 at the University of Sussesx, Brighton. There were about 250 poster presentations, many by PhD students, and David Smith, York and chair of the poster prize committee commented what a difficult decision it had been to chose the prize winners. RSC books were awarded to the following:
Anion Receptor Chemistry – Jonathan Sessler, Philip Gale and Won-Seob Cho
FP71 Anion-switchable supramolecular gels for controlling pharmaceutical crystal growth Jonathan Foster, University of Durham, UK
and
Boronic Acids in Saccharide Recognition – Tony James, Marcus Phillips and Seiji Shinkai
P172 Fabrication of soft submicrospheres composed of boronate ester polymers and their dynamic behaviour
Ryuhei Nishiyabu, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
and
Calixarenes – C David Gutsche
P130 Allosteric enhancement in light-driven foldameric receptors to control chloride concentrations
Semin Lee, Indiana University, USA
Further details on the books can be found at http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/series/15.asp?seriesid=15
