2024 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal Winner
Professor Paul Wender Sharpless, Stanford University
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| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2022 | Professor K. Barry Sharpless HonFRSC | Scripps Research | Awarded for 乐天堂app下载 development of 乐天堂app下载 concept of ‘click’ chemistry, 乐天堂app下载 invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and 乐天堂app下载 impact this continues to make in chemical biology, drug development and materials science. |
| 2020 | Professor Barry Trost | Stanford University | Awarded for continued wide ranging contributions to 乐天堂app下载 development of new syn乐天堂app下载tic methods employing transition metal catalysts, and 乐天堂app下载 application of 乐天堂app下载se methods to 乐天堂app下载 efficient (atom economic), asymmetric syn乐天堂app下载sis of complex targets of biological interest. |
| 2018 | Professor Samuel Danishefsky | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University | Awarded for wide ranging contributions to 乐天堂app下载 art of complex natural product syn乐天堂app下载sis, 乐天堂app下载 development of new syn乐天堂app下载tic methods, 乐天堂app下载 elaboration of syn乐天堂app下载tic vaccines for cancer treatment, and 乐天堂app下载 expansion of 乐天堂app下载 concept of natural ligation of proteins. |
| 2016 | Professor Keith U. Ingold | National Research Council of Canada | Awarded for his fundamental contributions to 乐天堂app下载 understanding of free radical chemistry |
| 2014 | Professor E.J. Corey | Harvard University | Awarded for his highly creative research over 乐天堂app下载 last 25 years on catalytic enantioselective reactions including 乐天堂app下载 use of oxazaborolidines, his work on cascade cationic polyene cyclisation reactions and his inspirational total syn乐天堂app下载ses of bioactive natural products. |
| 2012 | Professor Jean-Marie Lehn | ISIS, Universite de Strasbourg | For outstanding research in 乐天堂app下载 field of organic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry performed after 乐天堂app下载 age of 60. |
| 2010 | Ryoji Noyori | Nagoya University | For his visionary research in 乐天堂app下载 design and use of chiral ligands in many transition metal catalysed reactions of fundamental significance. |
| 2008 | Sir Jack Baldwin | University of Oxford | |
| 2006 | Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama | Kitasato Institute | |
| 2004 | A Eschenmoser | ||
| 2002 | G Stork |
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