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

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 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

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.

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 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.

This year’s Southampton Supramolecular Chemistry Symposium (SSCS-7) was held on the 16th July 2010 at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. It was a very successful event that saw an excellent line up of speakers who presented their latest research during this symposium.

The SSCS-7 speakers and poster prize winners, from left to right: Stephen Moore (Southampton, RSC CSR prize); Markus Albrecht (speaker, Aachen); Mike Ward (speaker, Sheffield); James Tucker (speaker, Birmingham); Jennifer Hiscock (Southampton, Nature Chemistry prize); Chris Hunter (speaker, Sheffield); Salvador Thomas (University of London, Nature Chemistry prize); Giorgio Mirri (Birmingham, RSC CC prize); Philippe Barthélemy (speaker, Bordeaux); Kajally Jobe (Queen Mary London, Nature Chemistry prize); Eugen Stulz (Southampton, conference organiser).

Dr Eugen Stulz (SSCS-7 organiser) awarded a number of poster prize winners at the symposium. For the RSC, Giorgio Mirri (ChemComm poster prize) and Stephen Moore (ChemSocRev poster prize), each won a book from the RSC’s supramolecular series and was presented with a glossy certificate.

Many congratulations from the ChemComm and ChemSocRev editorial office to the poster prize winners, Giorgio and Stephen, and to Eugen for organising another fantastic event for the supramolecular community.

Why not submit your next communication to ChemComm today!

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