OBC would like to extend its congratulations to Dr Michael Willis from the University of Oxford, who has won the 2011 OBC Lecture Award.
The award is given to chemists who have made a significant research contribution to organic or bioorganic chemistry, and ideally who have had an independent research career of between 8 and 15 years. Dr Willis was selected by a panel of judges, including OBC Chair Jeffrey Bode, from a selection of great nominees.
The OBC Lecture Award will be presented at the 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry later this year, in recognition of Dr Willis’ contribution to the field of organic synthesis and his international reputation. As part of the award, Dr Willis will be giving a lecture at the conference.
Dr Willis told us, “I’m very proud to be able to give the 2011 OBC lecture, and would like to thank my group for their enormous contributions to the progress of our chemistry”.
For some examples of Dr Willis’ great recent work see:
Enantioselective desymmetrizing palladium catalyzed carbonylation reactions: the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of quaternary carbon center containing 1,3-dienes
Simon J. Byrne, Anthony J. Fletcher, Paul Hebeisen and Michael C. Willis
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 758-760
DOI: 10.1039/B923186B,
Palladium-catalyzed aryl halide carbonylation–intramolecular O-enolate acylation: efficient isocoumarin synthesis, including the synthesis of thunberginol A
Andrew C. Tadd, Mark R. Fielding and Michael C. Willis
Chem. Commun., 2009, 6744-6746
DOI: 10.1039/B917839B,
Tandem copper-catalysed aryl and alkenyl amination reactions: the synthesis of N-functionalised indoles
Roy C. Hodgkinson, Jurgen Schulz and Michael C. Willis
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 432-434
DOI: 10.1039/B817254D,
The 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis is being held in Shanghai on 24th-28th July 2011, please see their website for further details.
