Esselen Award for S. Buchwald

摘要

The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) awards a prize named after their former chairman Gustavus J. Esselen for "Chemistry in the Public Interest" to chemists from North America whose work has communicated the positive values of the chemical profession. In 2010, this prize goes to Stephen L. Buchwald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT). He and his research group investigate new methods to form C-C, C-N, and C-O bonds, along with the asymmetric reduction of conjugated compounds that, as the ACS emphasize, make the synthesis of medicines and of semiconductors possible. He recently reported in Angewandte Chemie on the rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric intramolecular hydroamination of non-activated alkenes,and microchemical multi-step syntheses using microfluidic distillation.