 Margaret C. Etter Student
Lecturer Award
Congratulations to Karim Sutton, a first year DPhil student working
with Dr Richard Cooper, who was awarded a Margaret C. Etter Student
Lecturer Award at the recent American Crystallographic Association
annual meeting in Boston. His talk was about determination of
oxidation states in mixed-valent materials using tunable synchrotron
radiation. The awards were established to honour the memory of
Professor Etter (1943-1992), who was a major contributor to the field
of organic solid-state chemistry.
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 Asymmetric catalysis
A paper by Rebecca Maksymowicz and Phillipe Roth from the Fletcher group has been published in Nature Chemistry. The work demonstrates that alkylmetal species generated in situ from alkenes can be used instead of premade organometallics in asymmetric catalysis. The process uses a new air stable copper catalyst, works at room temperature and shows remarkable tolerance to solvents and functional groups.
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 Thesis Prizes for Chemistry Part II, 2012
Inorganic Chemistry First Prize: Sarah Hodgson, St. Catherine's College Organic Chemistry The Bannister Trust Prize: Jointly David Shepherd, St. Catherine's College, Adam Gammack, New College; Physical And Theoretical Chemistry First Prize: Philip Derry, New College. Other prizes included Inorganic Chemistry Proxime Accesserunt: Jointly Emrys Evans, New College, Rebecca Musgrave, Oriel College, Paul Kaufman, Merton College; Organic Chemistry Runner-Up Prizes: Jointly Matt Rattley, Somerville College, Karolis Leonavicius, St. Edmund Hall, and the Physical And Theoretical Chemistry Proxime Accesserunt Dorcas Tan, Christ Church, William Gault, The Queen's College, David Wilkins, St. Edmund Hall
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Chemistry Part IB Examination Prizes 2012
The Univeristy Gibbs Prizes have been awarded to Thomas Coxon, University College - First; Tanatorn Khotavivattana, Merton College - Proxime accessit; and Book Prizes for :
Charlie McTernan, Hertford College;
Christopher Sandford, Merton College;
Tristan Dodson, Wadham College
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 Chemistry Part IA Examination Prizes 2012
Elliot Neale, Lady Margaret Hall has been awarded the OUP prize for the Chemistry Part IA Examination 2012
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 Chemistry Part IA Examination Prizes 2012
Jonathan Mannouch, St. Catherine's College; Katrina Mennie, Christ Church
Rafal Wiewiora, Pembroke College; Sarah Morrow, Jesus College; Alexander Bajjon, Merton College have been awarded the EISAI prizes for the Chemistry Part IA Examination 2012
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 Preliminary Examination Prizes 2012
David Ascough, Merton College; Gavin Young, Magdalen College; Watcharaphol Paritmongkol, Merton College have been awarded the BRUKER Prizes for the preliminary examination in chemistry 2012
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 RS Davy Medal
Professor Fraser Armstrong FRS was awarded the Davy Medal in 2012 for his pioneering protein film electrochemistry allowing exquisite thermodynamic and kinetic control of redox enzymes, exemplified by hydrogenases, key in energy technology.
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 Best talk and Best Poster
Congratulations to Dr Jess Healy and David Hewings from the Conway group who won the best talk and best poster prizes, respectively, at the recent RSC Bioorganic Group Forum at the University of Leicester. They are pictured with the conference organiser, Dr Andrew Jamieson, and the plenary lecturer, Professor Chris Schofield.
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 D.Phil Thesis commendation
Anthony Boshen Wu working the Jeremy Robertson research group has been awarded a thesis commendation from the MPLS Graduate Studies Office based on the exceptional examiners' comments . Boshen thesis was on the 'Synthesis of Taurospongin A and Other Biologically Active Natural Products'
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 Pallado-Biology
A review of the emerging field of artificial biology mediated by palladium chemistry has highlighted the development of this field by the Davis group. Palladium-mediated carbon-carbon bond formation plays a revolutionary role in advancing organic synthesis. Recently developed biocompatible Pd catalysts have now allowed some of these reactions, such as Suzuki-Miyaura and copper-free Sonogashira cross coupling, to be performed on proteins in living E. coli cells.
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 Chemistry's GPU computing recognised
NVIDIA has named the University of Oxford a CUDA Centre of Excellence in recognition of its parallel computing research using NVIDIA GPUs. One of the highlighted areas was the Doye group's use of molecular dynamics simulations to study DNA nanotechnology.
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 CRL research highlighted in Nature and Nature Chemistry
Recently published work by Andrey Protchenko in the Aldridge/Mountford groups in collaboration with groups at Monash University and UCL has been highlighted in Nature and in Nature Chemistry.
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 New Oxford Developed Coating For Solar Photovoltaic Cells Wins Venture Prize Award
Researchers at the University of Oxford have won a major materials science prize to develop a high-technology coating with the potential to significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of new-generation solar photovoltaic cells. Professor Peter Edwards, Head of Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, will use the £25,000 Materials Science Venture Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, to develop manufacturing processes for his group's transparent conducting oxide coatings.
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 Chemistry World news story
Research by Levon Movsisyan, in Harry Anderson's group, and coworkers at the University of Erlangen, on polyyne rotaxanes is highlighted in Chemistry World.
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 Two Wins for Dixon Group Part II Project Students
Alan Chambers and Adam Gammack, Part II project students in the Dixon group, have each been awarded prizes at SCI Regional Undergraduate Research Symposia. Alan took first place at the symposium held at Imperial College on 7th June for his presentation on 'Novel stereoselective nitro-Mannich reaction cascades', whilst Adam won runner up prize at the meeting held at the University of Birmingham on 12th June with his project talk titled 'Organocatalytic Desymmetrisation of Prochiral Cyclohexanones via Intramolecular Michael Additions'.
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 Ying Wang wins best talk prize
1st year D.Phil. student Ying Wang (Compton Group) wins the prize for the best talk at the 'Great Western' Electrochemistry Graduate Students meeting held at Bath University, June 18th, 2012. She is pictured with Professor Frank Marken, conference organiser and host. Her talk was about identifying authentic nanoelectrocatalysis.
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 TEDxLSE - Kylie Vincent - Bacterial Life Powered by Hydrogen
Dr Kylie Vincent recently presented a talk at the 2012 TEDx LSE event. On YouTube you can see Kylie talk about her research team studying enzymes from bacteria that live on hydrogen gas. Kylie has filed several patent applications and is developing technologies for using enzymes from bacteria to help with hydrogen-driven industrial chemical synthesis. The TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
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 Stephen G. Davies 500 Publications
Congratulations to Prof. Steve Davies, whose recent article in Tetrahedron, 2012, 68, 4302 has seen him join the elite group of scientists with over 500 publications.
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 A New Book on "FLUORINE IN PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY" is available since April 2012
The book edited by Prof. V. Gouverneur and Dr K. Muller (Roche) and prefaced by Prof. F. Diederich (ETH) provides an overview of the impact that fluorine has made in the life sciences. In the first section, the emphasis is on how fluorine substitution can provide invaluable information at a molecular level. The following chapters provide answers to the key questions posed on the importance of fluorine in drug discovery and clinical applications. The last section covers the design, synthesis and use of 18F-radiotracers for positron emission tomography and discusses how 19F NMR has advanced molecular and clinical imaging. The cover picture was designed and produced by Dr. Karl Harrison.
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 V.I.P. in Angew. Chem.
A paper by Dmitry Kondratuk, in Harry Anderson's group, and coworkers at the University of Nottingham, has been designated as a VIP in Angewandte Chemie. It reports the synthesis of a 24-porphyrin nanoring with a diameter of 10 nm.
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 Feature article in Chemistry & Biology
Recent work from the Benesch Group and their collaborators in Massachusetts and Toronto has been highlighted in a feature in Chemistry & Biology. Through the development of a novel mass spectrometry data analysis approach the authors were able to disentangle the myriad complexes formed between molecular chaperone proteins and their targets. This heterogeneity provides a rationale for the ubiquitous protection provided by these proteins.
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 Inspiring Future Generations of Female Scientists
Kylie Vincent and Emily Flashman have featured in a supplement published by the Independent promoting women's careers in Science. Feature on role models for women in science includes Dr Emily Flashman of Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, who was one of the winners of L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowships For Women in Science in 2011. She explains why science was the correct choice for her and why she believes there should be more female role models who are scientists. Dr Kylie Vincent, a research chemist at Oxford University, discusses her research into bacterial use of hydrogen and discusses how to attract and retain female staff working in the biological sciences. Her department is working towards earning an Athena SWAN award, which is given to university departments operating good practice for women.
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 Spotlighted in JACS
A recent paper from the BGD group has been spotlighted in JACS. It describes a new biocatalytic method for attaching pure glycans to
intact antibodies. This is the such first method and it has the potential to
allow the development of finely-tuned mAb-based drugs.
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 RSC/Chem Comm Awards Symposium
The Department was delighted to host the recent Royal Society of Chemistry / Chem Comm Awards Symposium in Inorganic Chemistry, featuring a number of recent RSC prize winners from the UK and beyond. The one day meeting was a big success and highlighted the quality and breadth of research being carried out in the field.
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