 L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowships For Women In Science
Dr Emily Flashman has been awarded one of four L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science. These Fellowships aim to promote, celebrate, enhance and encourage the role and achievements of women pursuing their research careers in the UK or Ireland in the fields of the life or physical sciences. Emily will use the award to support her work investigating the oxygen sensing mechanisms of the HIF hydroxylases, enzymes involved in regulating oxygen levels in the body.
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 Distinguished Women in Chemistry / Chemical Engineering
Veronique Gouverneur has been selected as a 2011 Distinguished Woman in
Chemistry or Chemical Engineering as part of the ACS Challenge
Grant-International Year of Chemistry Celebration. This award
acknowledges and promotes the work of women chemists and chemical
engineers worldwide. The Distinguished Women will be honored at a
special ceremony during the IUPAC World Congress to be held in Puerto
Rico on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.
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 Fankuchen Memorial Award
Dr David Watkin gave the 2010 Fankuchen Lecture at the 2011 Annual
Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. The Fankuchen
Memorial Award is made roughly every three years, usually in connection with
the teaching of crystallography. The title of this years lecture was
"The Gold Standard - is it getting tarnished".
For several decades structure analysis using X-ray
crystallography was regarded as a gold standard because in favourable
cases, and when the work was carried out carefully, the results were
both precise and accurate. The fear now is that developments in hardware
and software have made the technology accessible to non-specialists,
with the risk that some of the traps which Nature lays being
overlooked, leading to sub-optimal analyses. The topic discussed in the
talk was whether or not we need all analyses to be optimal, or whether,
in a time of austerity, they simply have to be fit-for-purpose.
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 Luyun Jiang UK winner of the 2011 SciFinder Academic Exchange Program.
Sixteen outstanding Ph.D. students from schools in 13 countries will gather in Columbus, Ohio, this August to collaborate with Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) as members of the 2011 SciFinder AcademicExchange Program.
As members of the program, participants will receive an exclusive look inside the world's premier organization for chemical information as well as travel to the 242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Denver, Colo. The program participants will spend one week meeting with CAS senior management, editorial scientists and technical
specialists to advise and discuss insights on global trends in chemistry from the perspective of young scientists and to help advance the science of informatics. Luyun Jiang, is a DPhil student in John Foord's group, and is the only winner one from the UK.
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 Ben Davis wins 2012 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award
The Executive Board of Editors and the Publisher of Tetrahedron
Publications have decided that the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in 2012 has been awarded to Ben Davis. He will give a plenary lecture at the 13th Tetrahedron Symposium in Amsterdam. Each recipient also receives a certificate and an award of US $1,000. Additionally, a Symposium-in-Print in one of the journals will be published in each of their honour. As with the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, which these awards complement, the awards are made on an annual basis. These awards are presented to individuals who have exhibited
"exceptional creativity and dedication" in the fields of Organic
Synthesis and of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry espectively. Ben is the first UK recipient and only the 2nd non-US recipient.
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2011 Liebig Lectureship Award
Professor Veronique Gouverneur is the recipient of the 2011 Liebig
Lectureship Award of the Organic Division of the German Chemical
Society. The Liebig lecturer is invited to visit several German
Universities and Institutes for talks. Veronique will lecture on the theme "Fabulous Fluorine".
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 Dalton Transactions Hot Article
In a collaboration between researchers at the University of Oxford, Nankai University and Tsinghua University, Luet-Lok Wong and colleagues determined the substrate-free crystal structure of a variant of CYP102A1 (P450BM3) with generic activity-enhancing properties (KT2).
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 Honorary Japanese Ramsay Fellowship
Dr Kiminori Maeda has been awarded an Honorary Japanese Ramsay Fellowship for one year with effect from 1 October 2011. These Fellowships are awarded by the Ramsay Trustees to "Japanese nationals who have shown outstanding merit as advanced students of chemical research and who are currently pursuing their work at postdoctoral level at a university in the UK." In collaboration with the Timmel, Mackenzie and Hore groups, Dr Maeda plays a pivotal role in the DARPA-funded project "Quantum Effects in Magnetoreception" which aims to determine whether birds use magnetically sensitive photochemical reactions to detect the direction of the Earth's magnetic field as a navigational aid.
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 New €3.2M ERC Grant Awards
The Department is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of two five year ERC "Starting Grants". Roel Dullens has received a grant of €1.5 million on "Impurities in Colloidal Materials - tuning the properties of crystals, powders and glasses" and Andrew Goodwin has received a grant of €1.7 million on "Solving the nanostructure problem: Understanding, exploiting and designing functional disordered materials"
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 Hottest Articles in Journal of Magnetic Resonance
Work by Hannah Hogben in collaboration with Ilya Kuprov and colleagues in the Oxford e-Research Centre has been ranked No. 1 in the Top 25 Hottest Articles published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance between January and March 2011. The article, Spinach - a software library for simulation of spin dynamics in large spin systems describes efficient algorithms for simulating the behaviour of 40 or more coupled spins in NMR, EPR and Spin Chemistry experiments.
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 2011Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize
Dr. Philipp Kukura of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is the recipient of the 2011Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It is awarded for the most promising original investigations in chemistry and published results of those investigations. The prize was given for Philipp's original contributions to ultrafast and single molecule spectroscopy and consists of £5000 and a medal.
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 Research Students Win Presentations RSC Awards
Two Chemistry DPhil students were awarded prizes for oral presentations at
the "RSC Electrochemistry Group London and South East Region Postgraduate
Electrochemistry Meeting and ISE Satellite Student Regional Symposium on
Electrochemistry" held at University College London on 17th May 2011. Yige
Zhou in Richard Compton's group was awarded first prize for her talk
entitled "The electrochemistry of single silver nanoparticles via
nanoparticle-electrode collision processes". Zulkifli Idris in Kylie
Vincent's group was joint runner-up for his presentation "NAD+/NADH-cycling
by a catalytic moiety of the Soluble Hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha
studied by Protein Film Electrochemistry".
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 RSC 2011 Sir George Stokes Award
Professor Richard G Compton is the recipient of the 2011 Sir George Stokes Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry which recognises outstanding and sustained contributions to analytical science by someone working in a complementary field, which has led to developments of seminal importance for chemical analysis. Compton's citation is for his 'work in translating original and fundamental insights in interfacial charge transfer mechanisms and their kinetics into innovative and robust analytical sensing protocols [which has] revolutionised the field of electroanalysis. The award consists of a medal and £2,000
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 RSC Interdisciplinary Prize for 2011
Professor Carol Robinson, Royal Society Professor in Chemistry, has been awarded an RSC Interdisciplinary Prize for 2011. Interdisciplinary prizes are awarded for work at the interface between chemistry and other disciplines. Carol is awarded the prize for her development of a new area of research, gas phase structural biology, using highly refined mass spectrometry techniques. The prize itself consists of a medal and £5000.
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 Hagan Bayley elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
Professor Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the Department of Chemistry and a Fellow of Hertford College. He uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the fundamental properties of biological transmembrane protein pores and their applications in nanotechnology. His approach to single-molecule detection with engineered pores is being used by the company he founded, Oxford Nanopore. Hagan on receiving the award said 'Oxford Chemistry has been a wonderful place to work over the last 7 years and the fellowship reflects, not just the talents of my research group, but also the strengths of our department.'
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 David Manolopoulos elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
Professor David Manolopoulos is a Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department and a Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall. His research has contributed to many different aspects of chemical dynamics, ranging from the exact quantum mechanical description of elementary chemical reactions in the gas phase to the approximate inclusion of quantum mechanical zero point energy and tunnelling effects in dynamical simulations of condensed phase systems.
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 2011 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award
Professor Tim Donohoe is the recipient of the 2011 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award, which consists of £2000 and a medal, is given for the development of new methods or strategies employed in the construction of organic molecules. The prize was awarded for Tim’s contributions to organic synthesis using both redox and metathesis processes.
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 RSC Perkin Prize 2011
Professor Steve Davies, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of Chemistry has been awarded the prestigious RSC Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry 2011. The Perkin Prize for organic chemistry is awarded for sustained originality and achievement in research in any area of organic chemistry.
The prize consists of a medal and £5000. It is awarded this time for Steve’s fundamental contributions in the areas of stereocontrol in organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis.
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 Hot paper from the Compton and Donohoe groups
A paper from Professor Richard G. Compton's group, in collaboration with Professor Timothy J. Donohoe, has been highlighted as a Hot Article by the New Journal of Chemistry. In this paper the electrochemical hydrogenolysis of various protecting groups has been performed in an ionic liquid for the first time.
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 RJP Williams Lecture for 2011
The RJP Williams Lecture for 2011 was presented on April 28th by Professor Malcolm H Chisholm FRS, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University. Professor Chisholm's lecture was the concluding element of this year's highly successful Inorganic Chemistry Graduate Symposium at which 30 final year graduate students in Inorganic Chemistry present highlights of their research to the Department.
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 Hot article in Journal of Materials Chemistry
The article "High-temperature redox chemistry of La1.5+xSr0.5−xCo0.5Ni0.5O4+δ (x = 0.0, 0.2) studied in situ by neutron diffraction", describing research carried out by a team including Peter Battle, has been identified as a "hot article" by Journal of Materials Chemistry . The team found the first structural evidence for the coexistence of both anion vacancies and interstitial anions in a material that could be used for the anode in a solid-oxide fuel cell. Neutron powder diffraction was used to study the redox behaviour of two n = 1 Ruddlesden–Popper oxides in real time as the sample was heated and exposed to H2.
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 Core@shell chemistry published in Nature Chemistry
Research by Professor Paul Beer's group has recently been published in Nature Chemistry. The work covers the chemistry of bimetallic core@shell nanoparticles which often have properties that are different from those of single-metal or alloy nanoparticles. The work shows a route to such nanoparticles that bind the second metal to the core surface prior to reduction. The unique catalytic properties of the nanoparticles are demonstrated in the selective production of chloroaniline.
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 Stephen Wallace wins symposium prize
Stephen Wallace, a final year DPhil student from Martin Smith's group has won the SCI regional postgraduate organic chemistry symposium at the University of Bath. This is Stephen's third major prize this year, having already won the Royal Society of Chemistry Younger members' poster symposium (at the University of Manchester) and the Eli Lilly national postgraduate
prize in organic chemistry (as judged by Prof Barry Trost).
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 Chemical Science Top 10 Accessed Articles
A research paper by Paul Beer's group entitled Cation-induced molecular motion of spring-like [2]catenanes has appeared in the top 10 articles most accessed for March 2011 in the RSC journal Chemical Science.
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 Learned Society of Wales
Professor Graham Richards CBE has been elected to the Learned Society of Wales. The Learned Society of Wales was formally launched on 25 May 2010, and will not only recognise and rejoice in Wale's great talent, it will also harness and channel that talent for the good of our country. It will act as a defender of and protagonist for the very activities and functions that necessarily underpin the notion of Welsh cleverness.
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