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IUCr 2011 poster prize winner

15 Sep 2011

We are very pleased to announce Dr Kevin Riley, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, as the winner of the ChemComm sponsored poster prize from the IUCr2011 satellite meeting on Categorizing Halogen Bonding and Other Noncovalent Interactions Involving Halogen Atoms. His poster was titled “Halogen Bonds in Thyroid Receptor Protein–Ligand Interactions”. Dr Riley will receive one year’s free online subscription to ChemComm.

Dr Riley receives his certificate. From left to right: Pierangelo Metrangolo (program committee chairman), Christer Aakeroy (speaker), Kevin E. Riley, Giuseppe Resnati (program committee chairman).

CrystEngComm also sponsored a poster prize at the meeting which was awarded to Arijit Mukherjee from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Congratulations to both winners!

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Nominations invited for 2nd ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship

05 Sep 2011

We are delighted to invite nominations for the 2^nd ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which is awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

To qualify
To be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should have completed their PhD on or after 5th September 2003.

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 9th December 2011:

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 recipient of the award will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board.

Previous winner
2011 Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) – Find out about his Emerging Investigator Lecture tour in China

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Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize – 2012 winner announced

30 Aug 2011

Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Nitschke (University of Cambridge) who is the winner of the Cram Lehn Pedersen prize 2012.

The prize, sponsored by ChemComm and named in honour of the winners of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recognises significant, original and independent work in supramolecular chemistry by emerging investigators.

The prize is awarded to Dr Nitschke for his pioneering work in container molecules, functional materials and dynamic metal ligand chemistry. Dr Nitschke says “I’m incredibly honoured to receive this prize, which reflects most of all on the hard work, talent and creativity of my scientific co-workers, past and present. It’s a great pleasure to be a part of the vibrant international community of supramolecular chemists.”

Dr Nitschke will receive £2,000 and will present his award lecture at the 7^th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (7-ISMSC) at the University of Otago, New Zealand in January.

Professor Phil Gale, Head of Chemistry at the University of Southampton and member of the ISMSC international committee says “I’m delighted Jonathan has been awarded the Cram Lehn Pedersen prize. His elegant chemistry has provided new insights into the formation of complex systems using metal–ligand interactions. The award is richly deserved”.

Find out more about Dr Nitschke’s research by reading his Chemical Science Edge article: “Selective anion binding by a “Chameleon” capsule with a dynamically reconfigurable exterior”.

Also read his Chemical Science Mini Review: “Reactivity modulation in container molecules”.

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ISMSC: Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize awarded

13 Jul 2011

Professor Amar Flood delivered the inaugural Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize lecture at at the 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (6-ISMSC) in Brighton last week. The lecture, entitled ‘Binding and releasing anions with CH hydrogen-bonded receptors’, discussed his group’s efforts to regulate chloride concentrations in solution using aryl-triazole foldamers bearing azobenzene units. The foldamers can reversibly bind and liberate chloride depending on the wavelength of light shone on them.

The prize was sponsored by ChemComm and Dr Robert Eagling, ChemComm Editor, presented the certificate to Professor Flood.

: Professor Amar Flood (right) receives his award certificate from ChemComm Editor Dr Robert Eagling

You can read some of Professor Flood’s recent research in the recent supramolecular chemistry web theme issue:
Two levels of conformational pre-organization consolidate strong CH hydrogen bonds in chloride–triazolophane complexes
Yuran Hua, Raghunath O. Ramabhadran, Jonathan A. Karty, Krishnan Raghavachari and Amar H. Flood, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 5979-5981

Find out more about ISMSC in my conference blog.

And don’t forget – there is still time to submit your nomination for the 2012 Cram Lehn Pedersen prize. Deadline 31st July 2011. See the call for nominations for more details.

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RSC Centenary Prize awarded to…

06 Jun 2011

Many congratulations to Jonathan Sessler, ChemComm‘s very own US Associate Editor for supramolecular chemistry, who has been awarded the Centenary Prize for his groundbreaking research on polypyrrolic systems in the areas of supramolecular and medicinal chemistry.

This year the Centenary Prize was also awarded to two other outstanding chemists: Marius Clore and Graham Cooks. All three winners will present lectures in the British Isles in association with this prize.

Well done Jonathan from the ChemComm Editorial team here in Cambridge!

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Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize – now open for nominations

03 Jun 2011

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ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship – winner announced

03 May 2011

On behalf of the ChemComm Editorial Board, I am delighted to announce that Dr Scott Dalgarno (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) has won the inaugural ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

This annual award recognises an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. The Editorial Board commended Dr Dalgarno’s contributions to the field of supramolecular chemistry, in particular the assembly and properties of calixarenes.

Dr Dalgarno will present his award lecture, entitled ‘Metal-Organic Calixarene Assemblies’, at the following locations:

Challenges in Organic Materials & Supramolecular Chemistry (ISACS6), Beijing, China, 2nd-5th September 2011
Chemical Science Symposium, Nanjing, China, 6th September 2011
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 8th September 2011

For more details about these lectures, please contact ChemComm Editor, Robert Eagling.

To find out more about Dr Dalgarno’s research, read these recent ChemComm articles:
Calix[4]arene supported clusters: a dimer of [MnIIIMnII] dimers
Stephanie M. Taylor, Ruaraidh D. McIntosh, Christine M. Beavers, Simon J. Teat, Stergios Piligkos, Scott J. Dalgarno and Euan K. Brechin, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 1440-1442

Calixarene supported enneanuclear Cu(II) clusters
Georgios Karotsis, Stuart Kennedy, Scott J. Dalgarno and Euan K. Brechin, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 3884-3886

Magnetism in metal–organic capsules
Jerry L. Atwood, Euan K. Brechin, Scott J. Dalgarno, Ross Inglis, Leigh F. Jones, Andrew Mossine, Martin J. Paterson, Nicholas P. Power and Simon J. Teat, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 3484-3486

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Approaching deadline for Emerging Investigator Lectureship nominations

18 Feb 2011

Time is running out to nominate your colleagues for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2011. Send your nominee’s details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by 28th February 2011.

And remember, to be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should be within the first eight years of completing their PhD. Find out more….

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Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize – winner announced

26 Jan 2011

Congratulations to Professor Amar Flood (Indiana University) who is the winner of the Cram Lehn Pedersen prize 2011.

The prize is awarded to Professor Flood for his pioneering work in macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry and, in particular, for his development of receptors that employ pure CH hydrogen bonding to bind anionic guest species.

Professor Flood will receive £2,000 and will present his award lecture at the 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (6-ISMSC) in Brighton in July. ChemComm Editor Robert Eagling and Deputy Editor Joanne Thomson will be at the symposium – let us know if you’ll be there too.

Prof Phil Gale, Chair of the Scientific Committee for 6-ISMSC said: “I’m really delighted that Amar has been selected by the International Committee to be the first recipient of the Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize. I’m already looking forward to hearing his latest results in Brighton in July.”

Nominations for the 2012 award, which will be presented at 7-ISMSC in New Zealand, will open shortly. Email us to register your interest.

Find out more about Professor Flood’s research by reading his Chem Soc Rev tutorial review:

Click chemistry generates privileged CH hydrogen-bonding triazoles: the latest addition to anion supramolecular chemistry, Yuran Hua and Amar H. Flood, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, 39, 1262-1271
(This review is part of the themed issue Click chemistry: Function follows form)

Also of interest:
A tristable [2]pseudo[2]rotaxane, Ali Trabolsi, Albert C. Fahrenbach, Sanjeev K. Dey, Andrew I. Share, Douglas C. Friedman, Subhadeep Basu, Travis B. Gasa, Niveen M. Khashab, Sourav Saha, Ivan Aprahamian, Hussam A. Khatib, Amar H. Flood and J. Fraser Stoddart, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 871-873

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Emerging Investigator Lectureship open for nominations

04 Nov 2010

a trophy We are delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career.

To qualify
To be eligible for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, the candidate should be within the first eight years of completing their PhD.

Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send the following details to the ChemComm Editorial Office by 28th February 2011:

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)
The names and contact details of two independent referees who may be contacted for a reference. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

Please note that self nomination is not permitted.

Selection procedure
Following the close of nominations, referees will be contacted for their comments. They will be asked to state their relationship to the nominee.

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 recipient of the award will then be selected and endorsed by the ChemComm Editorial Board.

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