Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog

Congratulations to Ricky Cain who was presented with the OBC poster prize award on the occasion of the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division North East Regional Meeting, held at the University of Huddersfield on Monday 4 March 2013.

Ricky is a postgraduate research student working under the supervision of Profs. Colin Fishwick and Peter Johnson at the University of Leeds,  and won for his work on the Design and synthesis of metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors. Ricky receives a one-year personal subscription to OBC.

Professor Joe Sweeney (University of Huddersfield) Dr Anne Horan (Royal Society of Chemistry) Ricky Cain (University of Leeds) Dr David Rees (Astex Pharmaceuticals and President of RSC Organic Division)

 Photo provided by the University of Huddersfield.

Also read the news item featured on the University of Leeds, School of Chemistry homepage.

Congratulations again to Ricky on his award! The OBC team wishes him all the very best with his future research work.

Congratulations to Michael J. Rawling, from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, who won the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry poster prize at the 21st IUPAC  International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC21 ) in Durham on 9th-13th September 2012.

His winning poster was entitled ‘Metal-Free Dihydroxylation of Alkenes’, presenting his work carried out in Prof. Nicholas Tomkinson‘s group.

Prof. Ian Williams presents Michael Rawling with his certificate. (Photo taken by Anne Horan)

Michael receives a one-year personal subscription to Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, and a book of his choice from the RSC books catalogue. Thank you to Ian Williams, Professor of Theoretical Organic Chemistry at the University of Bath, for awarding the prize certificate.

I will shortly be attending the 13th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS XIII) in Leuven, 15-20 July, and if you too are in attendance, I’ d love to meet you there!

Please let us know if you will also be in attendance and would like to arrange a meeting – simply email us at the OBC editorial office.

Dr Marie Cote, Oganic & Biomolecular Chemistry Deputy Editor

OBC is delighted to be a media partner of the conference, and there’s a lot to look forward to again on this 13th edition of the symposium:

• Prof. Ben Feringa (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is the  Tetrahedron Chair 2012 awardee, and will give lectures all throughout the opening day on ‘Exploring chiral space in asymmetric catalysis’.
• Prof. Illan Marek (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2012 Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

Plenary lectures at the symposium will be given by :

• Prof. Matthias Beller (University of Rostock, Germany)
• Prof. Dale L. Boger (The Scripps research institute, La Jolla, USA)
• Prof. Jan-Erling Backvall (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Prof. Karl Gademann (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Prof. Frank Glorius (University of Muenster, Germany)
• Prof. Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford, UK)
• Prof. Shu Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Professor Michael Krishe (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
• Dr Emmanuel Lacote (ICSN – CNRS, France)
• Prof. Istvan Marko (UCL, Belgium)
• Prof. Gary A. Molander (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Prof. Klaus Mueller (F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland)
• Prof. Tobias Ritter (Harvard University, USA)
• Prof. Scott Snyder (Columbia University, USA)
• Prof. Paul A. Wender (Stanford University, USA)
• Prof. Ming Hua Xu (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, PR China)

I look forward to meeting you in Leuven!