ORCHEM Prize

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The ORCHEM Prize of the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry of the Society of German Chemists is awarded every two years to young scientists in organic chemistry . It is endowed with 5000 euros and has been awarded since 2000.

Award winners

Each with the place of activity at the time of the award and brief keywords from the official reason:

  • 2000 Clemens Richert , Konstanz, (molecular recognition of nucleic acids, especially chemical caps ), Stefan Bräse , Aachen, (organic solid phase systems with new possibilities for the synthesis of biologically active compounds)
  • 2002 Stephen K. Hashmi , Stuttgart, (homogeneous gold catalysis of organic reactions, metallacycloalkanes), Michael Müller , Jülich (enantioselective enzymic syntheses)
  • 2004 Frank Glorius , Mülheim (design of bis (oxazoline) -derived carbene ligands for organometallic catalysis, asymmetric hydrogenation of chirally modified pyridines), Hans-Joachim Wagenknecht , Garching (mechanism of novel, reduction-initiated charge transfer processes through DNA)
  • 2006 Luth Ackermann , Munich (development of air-stable phosphine oxides as preligands for Pd-, Ni- and Ru-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of chlorinated aromatics), Martin Oestreich , Münster (innovative contributions to asymmetric synthesis, especially with the help of bicyclic organosilicon compounds with Si-based chirality)
  • 2008 Peter Spiteller , Munich (isolation and structural elucidation of novel metabolic products of higher fungi and their ecological function to ward off predators ), Magnus Rueping , Frankfurt am Main (contributions to organocatalysis, in particular his work on enantioselective Brønsted acid catalysis)
  • 2010 Hans-Dieter Arndt , Dortmund (synthesis-based chemical biology, in particular his organic-synthetic and molecular biological work in the field of cyclic thiopeptide antibiotics), Nicolai Cramer , Zurich (selective transition metal-catalyzed bond activation with ring opening, efficient synthesis of complex natural and active substances)
  • 2012 Christian Hackenberger , Berlin (chemoselective ligation and efficient synthesis of protein-protein and protein-carbohydrate conjugates), Axel Jacobi von Wangelin , Regensburg (iron-catalyzed coupling reactions and metal-, organo- and photocatalytic syntheses of carbo- and heterocycles ).
  • 2014 Franziska Schönebeck , Aachen (theoretical and experimental studies on reaction mechanisms, especially palladium-catalyzed reactions), Daniel B. Werz , Braunschweig (chemistry of carbohydrates, synthesis of heterocycles via donor-acceptor cyclopropanes)
  • 2016 Thomas Magauer , Munich (new synthetic routes for complex natural products), Olga Garcia Mancheño , Regensburg (new and sustainable synthesis methods with the help of modern catalytic processes)
  • 2018 Ivana Fleischer (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Florian Beuerle (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Hoer: ORCHEM 2016 in Weimar - Great days for organic chemistry. Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, press release of July 5, 2016 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on July 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ ORCHEM 2018 ; accessed on May 17, 2018.