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Organic Chemistry Frontiers warmly congratulates Zhang-Jie Shi, the Editorial Board member of the journal, on being awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry at the 13^th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC-13) held in Xiamen University, China from 19^th -22^nd December, 2014.

Professor Zhang-Jie Shi

Dr. Shi, Professor in Chemistry from Peking University, is now serving as an Editorial Board member of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. He received a BS degree in 1996 from the Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University. He further joined Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC, CAS) and obtained his PhD degree (2001) under the supervision of Professor Shengming Ma. He then moved to Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Gregory Verdine and later as a research associate with Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago. In 2004, he joined the faculty of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University and was promoted to full professor in 2008.

He has received many international awards, including the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in 2014, OMCOS Award in 2013, and Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in 2011 where he was the inaugural Asian recipient.

Dr. Shi was recognized for his seminal contribution in organometallic chemistry and catalysis, especially in the field of the activation of “inert” bonds and small molecules. So far, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 7,100 times by others.

To find out more about Dr. Shi’s research, please take a look at his publications on the Royal Society of Chemistry journals in the past 12 months:

Direct amidation of the phenylalanine moiety in short peptides via Pd-catalyzed C–H activation/C–N formation

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 51-54

Direct Cross Coupling of Benzyl Alcohols to Construct Diarylmethanes via Palladium Catalysis

Chem. Commun., 2014, Accepted Manuscript

Controllable mono-/di-alkenylation of aryl alkyl thioethers tuned by oxidants via Pd-catalysis

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 1096-1100

Direct alkenyl C–H functionalization of cyclic enamines with carboxylic acids via Rh catalysis assisted by hydrogen bonding

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 634-638

Transition metal-catalyzed direct nucleophilic addition of C–H bonds to carbon–heteroatom double bonds

Chem. Sci., 2014,5, 2146-2159

Palladium-catalyzed base-accelerated direct C–H bond alkenylation of phenols to synthesize coumarin derivatives

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 44-49

Zhang-Jie Shi (middle) with the session Chairs Li-Xin Dai (left) and Henry N. C. Wong (right)

Zhang-Jie Shi was delivering a lecture on 'Direct Transformations of Unreactive Chemical Bonds' at the closing ceremony

ISCOC and the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry

Starting in 1990, the International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC) took place every other year and has become an important platform for bringing together worldwide Chinese chemists to exchange their scientific findings, cultivate mutual understandings, and foster possible collaborations.

The Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry was established by Professor Sunney Chan, director of the Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, to recognize outstanding organic chemists under the age of 40 during ISCOC.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is a proud supporter of ISCOC-13, sponsoring the poster prizes, the winners of which received a certificate and a copy of book from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s popular chemistry collection.

Congratulations to our Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winners at the 13^th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCOC-13) on 19-22 December 2014 in Xiamen University. This conference was held together with the 10^th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC-10), providing an interactive platform for worldwide Chinese researchers to exchange innovative ideas.

The Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prizes were awarded to:

‘Generation of unforeseeable bioactive molecules from fungal biosynthetic machineries’

Wei Yan (Nanjing University)

‘Iterative Modulation: a Simple Glycosylation Approach for Difficult Glycosidic Bond Formation’

Jhe-Cyuan Hu (National Chiao Tung University)

‘Gold(I)-Catalyzed Polycyclization of Linear Dienediynes to Seven-Membered Ring-Containing Polycycles via Tandem Cyclopropanation/Cope Rearrangement/C − H Activation’

Pei-Jun Cai (Peking University)

‘Total Synthesis of Taiwaniadducts B, C and D’

Shu-Peng Zhou (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)

‘Construction of a tricyclic core of haliclonin A’

Shi-Peng Luo (Xiamen University)

Winners for both ISCOC-13 and ISCIC-10, judges, scientific committee and RSC staff

The winners all receive a certificate and a copy of book from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s popular science collection.

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

The 2014 RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium was successfully held on 01 December 2014 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London.

This symposium provided a fantastic opportunity for final year organic chemistry PhD students to showcase their research and network with their peers, leading academics, and industrial chemists.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers was delighted to sponsor the Participants’ Prize and we would like to join in congratulating the winners.

First Prize

Sonja Kuschel, University of Manchester (Supervisor: Professor David Leigh). Poster title: Towards man-made ribosomes: Nanomachines for sequential peptide synthesis

Runners Up Prizes

Antony Burton, University of Bristol (Supervisor: Professor Derek Woolfson). Poster title: Installing Catalytic Activity into a de novo Designed Protein Structure

Sarah Walker, Heriot-Watt University (Supervisor: Dr Ai-Lan Lee). Poster title: Development of Pd(II)-catalysed oxidative Heck reactions and CH functionalisations

Industry Prize (selected by the industrial delegates)

Antoine Maruani, University College London (Supervisors: Professor Stephen Caddick and Dr Vijay Chudasama). Poster title: A Novel Class of Tuneable reagents for Selective Dual Modification of Proteins

Participants’ Prize (selected by the students)

Owen Davis, Imperial College London (Supervisor: Dr James Bull). Poster title: Synthesis and Functionalisation of Highly Substituted Oxetanes: Molecular Scaffolds for Drug Discovery

The event was supported by: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., AstraZeneca, Evotec, Johnson Matthey Catalysis and Chiral Technologies, Pfizer Neusentis, Takeda, UCB and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Participant Prize winner: Owen Davis (© MPP Image Creation / Royal Society of Chemistry)

Winners, judges, scientific committee and RSC staff (left to right): Dr Andrew Thomas, Dr Anne Horan, Professor Jonathan Clayden, Mr Owen Davis, Professor Rob Field, Mrs Sonja Kuschel, Professor Julian Blagg, Miss Sarah Walker, Professor Stuart Conway, Mr Antony Burton, Mr Antoine Maruani, Dr David Rees, Dr Sarah Rook, Professor Sue Gibson, Miss Charlotte Still (© MPP Image Creation / Royal Society of Chemistry)