Elsevier Properties SA, a center of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the winners of the Reaxys PhD Prize, a competition for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the last 12 months. The Prize recognises research and publication excellence in the fields of organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry.
The prize attracted high quality applicants from around 300 brilliant young chemists from many of the leading chemistry schools in the world. Submissions consisted of a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research, a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation and a CV. All entries were closely scrutinised by a review board of over 50 renowned international chemists from academia and industry chaired by Professors Anthony Barrett, Barry Trost and Henry Wong.
The review board judged the entries for originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.
From the initial submissions, 45 finalists were selected. A further review, carried out personally by the Chairs of the Review Board, then identified the final three. The winners of the 2011 Reaxys PhD Prize are: Vikram Bhat, University of Chicago, USA: Total Synthesis of N-Methylwelwitindolinone D Isonitrile (JACS 2011); Steven Malcolmson, Boston College, USA: Highly Efficient Molybdenum-Based Catalysts for Enantioselective Alkene Metathesis (Nature 2008); and Dixit Parmar, University of Manchester, UK: Reductive cyclisation cascades of lactones using SmI2-H2O (JACS 2011)
The three winners and 42 other finalists have each been invited to attend the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium at the 14th Asian Chemical Congress in Bangkok, Thailand on September 7, 2011. The winners are invited to give a short oral presentation of their research, and the finalists will participate in a special poster session and reception. The symposium will also feature presentations from Professors Henry Wong and Anthony Barrett.
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