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Erwin Reisner 2014 RSC Award winner

15 May 2014

ChemComm Advisory Board member Erwin Reisner is a Harrison-Meldona Memorial Prize winner. Erwin was awarded this prize for his work in combining molecular synthesis, chemical biology and materials chemistry to develop artificial photosynthesis.

Erwin’s communication ‘Al-doped ZnO inverse opal networks as efficient electron collectors in BiVO₄ photoanodes for solar water oxidation’ (C3EE44031A) is part of the ‘Celebrating the 2014 RCS Prize and Award Winners’ themed collection and is free* to access for a limited time only.

You can access papers by other 2014 RSC Prize and Award Winners for free* for a limited time. A full list of winners and more information about RSC Prizes and Awards can be found at: www.rsc.org/awards.

*Access is free until 06.06.14 through a registered RSC account – click here to register

Erwin recent tutorial review describes an emerging technique which allows for the light-dependent activity of Photosystem II adsorbed onto an electrode surface to be studied. This fascinating review can be accessed by clicking the link below.

Protein film photoelectrochemistry of the water oxidation enzyme photosystem II
Masaru Kato,Jenny Z. Zhang, Nicholas Paul and Erwin Reisner
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00031E

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014: Winners announced

06 May 2014

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board we are delighted to announce the winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014.

To mark the 50th volume of ChemComm we have awarded three Lectureships this year. The 2014 winners are: Xinliang Feng, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (advanced organic materials), Tomislav Friščić, McGill University (organic chemistry) and Simon M. Humphrey, University of Texas (inorganic chemistry). Congratulations to the winners!

This annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Further details of the Lectureship tours, including lecture locations, will be announced in due course. For information on previous winners see our website.

Also of interest: You can now read the 2014 Emerging Investigators Issue – which highlights research from outstanding up-and-coming scientists. There are a mix of Feature Articles and Communications, as well as an Editorial showcasing the authors – which includes some fun photos… look out for a giant pumpkin and R2D2!

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ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue 2014

02 May 2014

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigators issue.

Now in its fourth year, we have been overwhelmed by the community’s positive response to this issue. It showcases up-and-coming scientists who are internationally recognised for making outstanding contributions to their respective fields.

There are a mix of Feature Articles and Communications, as well as an Editorial showcasing the authors – which includes some fun photos… look out for a giant pumpkin and R2D2! You can also take a look at our previous issues in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

View the whole Emerging Investigators collection today.

We invite you to submit your next communication article to ChemComm.

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Bath to host 2014 RSC Carbohydrate Meeting: 30 Apr-1 May

17 Apr 2014

The University of Bath will host Spring 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Group Meeting from Wednesday 30 April – Thursday 1 May.

On Wednesday evening, the 2014 RSC Haworth Memorial Lecture will be delivered by David Crich, Schaap Professor of Organic Chemistry at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

The Meeting will also include the Inaugural Buchanan Award Lecture in honour of J Grant Buchanan, a former Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Department of Chemistry here at Bath, who died two years ago on 17 April 2012, at the age of 85. Grant was a great researcher and educator, and is remembered fondly for his infectious enthusiasm, collegiality and warm humanity.

The full programme of speakers for the Meeting is available online.

Local delegates are free to attend the lectures and are also encouraged to submit posters.

There will be a number of poster prizes awarded:

Chemical Science Poster Prize – Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing
Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Infectious Diseases (including certificate from Chemical Science)
Chem Comm Poster Prize – Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing
Boronic Acids in Saccharide Recognition (including certificate from Chem Comm)
OBC Poster Prize – Sponsored by Asynt
DrySyn heating block starter kit (including certificate from OBC)

For further information about the Meeting, please contact the local Organising Committee – Tony James and Steve Bull or email: carbohydrate@bath.ac.uk

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Chem Sci, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prizes awarded at J400 chemonostics symposium

06 Dec 2013

Congratulations to our Chemical Science, ChemComm and Chem Soc Rev poster prize winners at Chemonostics: Chemical receptors in the development of simple diagnostic devices, a one-day symposium held in Bath, UK on 28 November 2013. The event, organised by Professor Tony James from the University of Bath, was held to celebrate 400 years of Japan-British relations. Our Editor Dr Robert Eagling was on hand to award the prizes.

J400 at Bath - Chemonostics

(Left to right) Giles Prentice, Rama Byravan, Robert Eagling, Xiaolong Sun

The RSC poster prizes were awarded to:

Giles Prentice (Bath) – Chem Soc Rev poster prize
Rama Byravan (Birmingham) – Chemical Science poster prize
Xiaolong Sun (Bath) – ChemComm poster prize

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

Read J400: our cross-journal online collection celebrating the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations

You may also be interested in our web collection dedicated to Professor Seiji Shinkai on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Nominate a colleague this week: ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014

02 Dec 2013

This week is your last chance to nominate a colleague for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014.

Nominate by Friday 6th December 2013

The lectureships recognise emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic career. 2014 marks the 50th volume of ChemComm and in celebration of this very special anniversary we will be awarding three ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships next year. So nominate a colleague today!

To qualify
To be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should have completed their PhD on or after 4th September 2005. The candidate should also have published at least one article in ChemComm during the course of their independent career.

Award details
The recipient of the award will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12 month period. It is expected that at least one of the locations will be a conference. The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs. S/he will also be presented with a certificate and be asked to contribute a ChemComm Feature Article.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by Friday 6th December 2013:

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, list of up to five independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents and other indicators of esteem and evidence of independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referees are requested to comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
The ChemComm Editorial Board will draw up a short-list of candidates based on the information provided by the referees and nominator. Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide a supporting statement justifying why they deserve the award. The recipients of the award will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board, and will be announced in Spring 2014.

Previous winners

2013		Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) for synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, who will give a plenary lecture at ISACS 13 in Dublin.
2013		Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London, UK) for biophysical chemistry who will give her Lectureship in 2014.
2012		Professor Hiromitsu Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) – he was presented with his lecture certificate at ICPOC 21.
2011		Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) – Find out about his Emerging Investigator Lecture tour in China.

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2014 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in supramolecular chemistry – nominations open

27 Nov 2013

The International Committee of the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry is pleased to invite nominations for the Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize for young supramolecular chemists.

The Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize, named in honour of the winners of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recognises significant original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry.

Previous winners include:

2013 – Tomoki Ogoshi from Kanazawa University in Japan

2012 – Jonathan Nitschke from the University of Cambridge in the UK

2011 – Amar Flood from Indiana University in the US

Those who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD on 31st December 2013 are eligible for the 2014 award. The winner will receive a prize of £2000 and free registration for the ISMSC meeting in Crystal City, Virginia. In addition to giving a lecture at ISMSC, a short lecture tour will be organised after the meeting in consultation with the Editor of Chemical Communications, the sponsor of the award.

Nomination Details:

Please send your CV, list of publications (divided into publications from your PhD and post-doc, and those from your independent work), and if desired, a letter of support, or these materials for someone you wish to nominate, to Prof. Roger Harrison (ISMSC Secretary) at rgharris@chem.byu.ed by 31st December 2013.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014

18 Oct 2013

We are delighted to invite nominations for ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships 2014. The lectureships, which are awarded annually, will recognise emerging scientists in the early stages of their independent academic career.

2014 marks the 50th volume of ChemComm and in celebration of this very special anniversary we will be awarding three ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureships next year. So nominate a colleague today!

Lectureship details
The recipient of the Lectureship will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12 month period. It is expected that at least one of the locations will be a conference. The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs. S/he will also be presented with a certificate and be asked to contribute a ChemComm Feature Article.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by Friday 6th December 2013:

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, list of up to five independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents and other indicators of esteem and evidence of independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referees are requested to comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
The ChemComm Editorial Board will draw up a short-list of candidates based on the information provided by the referees and nominator. Short-listed candidates will be asked to provide a supporting statement justifying why they deserve the Lectureship. The recipients of the Lectureship will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board, and will be announced in Spring 2014.

Previous winners

2013		Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) for synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, who will give a plenary lecture at ISACS 13 in Dublin.
2013		Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London, UK) for biophysical chemistry who will give her Lectureship in 2014.
2012		Professor Hiromitsu Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) – he was presented with his lecture certificate at ICPOC 21.
2011		Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) – Find out about his Emerging Investigator Lecture tour in China.

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2013: Winners Announced

25 Apr 2013

Louise Berben

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board we are delighted to announce the winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2013.

Marina Kuimova

This year we received a high number of excellent nominations and therefore the Editorial Board have decided to award two Emerging Investigator Lectureships in 2013. The winners are Professor Louise A. Berben (University of California Davis, USA) and Dr Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London).

This annual lectureship recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

The Editorial Board commended Louise’s contributions to the field of synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry, and Marina was awarded the lectureship for her excellent work within biophysical chemistry. Further details of the two Lectureships, including lecture locations, will be announced soon.

To find out more about the winners’ research, read some of their latest articles in ChemComm:

Redox active aluminium(III) complexes convert CO₂ into MgCO₃or CaCO₃ in a synthetic cycle using Mg or Ca metal
Thomas W. Myers and Louise A. Berben
Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37208H

Simple routes to bulky silyl-substituted acetylide ligands and examples of V(III), Fe(II), and Mn(II) complexes
Gereon M. Yee, Kristin Kowolik, Shuhei Manabe, James C. Fettinger and Louise A. Berben
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 11680-11682, DOI: 10.1039/C1CC14758G

Reactive oxygen species in photochemistry of the red fluorescent protein “Killer Red”
Russell B. Vegh, Kyril M. Solntsev, Marina K. Kuimova, Soohee Cho, Yue Liang, Bernard L. W. Loo, Laren M. Tolbert and Andreas S. Bommarius
Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 4887-4889, DOI: 10.1039/C0CC05713D

Also of interest: You can now browse the 2013 Emerging Investigators Issue – which features research from outstanding up-and-coming scientists

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Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize winner Tomoki Ogoshi: US lectures 2013

23 Apr 2013

Our 2013 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize winner, Professor Tomoki Ogoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan), is set to visit the US this year to deliver his award lectures.

Tomoki Ogoshi will first present his lecture, entitled “Pillararenes: Easy-to-make and versatile receptors for supramolecular chemistry,” at the 8th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (8-ISMSC) in Crystal City, Virginia, USA from 7-11 July 2013.

Later in the year, Tomoki Ogoshi will speak at the University of Texas at Austin (20 Sept) where he will be hosted by ChemComm Associate Editor Professor Jonathan Sessler. He will then travel to San Diego, CA, to present his talk at the Scripps Research Institute (23 Sept), hosted by Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.

Register online for the 8-ISMSC between now and 1 July to catch Professor Ogoshi’s first award lecture this summer– reduced fees for students and post-docs are available!

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