 Poster Prize
Congratulations to Rebecca Maksymowicz, a 3rd year DPhil student working with Steve Fletcher, who was awarded a prize for best poster at the 27th RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium in Stevenage. Her poster presented a new method for catalytic asymmetric C-C bond formation using alkenes as nucleophiles.
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 Hot paper in Angewandte Chemie
A paper by Rebecca Musgrave, Rob Turbervill, and Mark Irwin from the Goicoechea group has been designated as a "Hot Paper" in Angewandte Chemie. The work describes the synthesis and characterisation of the first transition metal complexes containing anionic N-heterocyclic dicarbene ligands.
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 Chem Comm Interviews Steve Davies
Colleagues, students, zebra fish, fruit flies, worms and bankers - Steve Davies is happy to work with them all for the good of chemistry. He reveals why he is a very lucky man.
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 European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry Poster Prize
Congratulations to James Egleton, a 1st year Cancer Research UK-funded D.Phil student working with Angela Russell, who was awarded a poster prize at the EFMC 22nd International Symposium of Medicinal Chemistry in Berlin earlier this month. Just ten poster prizes were awarded from over 600 contributors. James presented his work on the development of specific, non-covalent colorimetric probes of a breast cancer biomarker.
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 Chemical Science Top 10 Article
A paper by DPhil student Ines Collings and former Part II student Joe Ogborn (both in the Goodwin Group) together with Amber Thompson (Chemical Crystallography) is one of the top 10 most accessed articles in Chemical Science this month. The paper describes a supramolecular approach to understanding and controlling mechanical behaviour in metal–organic frameworks.
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 Symposium Prize
Oral Communication Prize RSC Fluorine Group Symposium 2012
Congratulations to Elena Benedetto, a 3rd year D Phil student working
with Veronique Gouverneur and John Brown, who was awarded one of the
three prizes for best oral communication at the recent RSC Fluorine
Group Symposium in St Andrews. Elena presented her more recent work on
Ir-catalysed fluorination.
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 Poster Prize
Congratulations to Dr Matthew Tredwell, a postdoctoral research fellow
working with Veronique Gouverneur, who was awarded a poster prize at the
recent 20th International Symposium of Fluorine Chemistry in Kyoto. His
poster presented a new method for the direct [18F]fluorination of
electron rich phenols with [18F]fluoride. The results of this study were
published earlier this year in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
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 Published in Science - Alkane Complexes
A paper by Seb Pike (Weller group) and Amber Thompson (Chemical Crystallography) has been published in Science. The work demonstrates a new route to long-sought after sigma–alkane complexes of transition metals, allowing for the molecular structure of a Rhodium–alkane complex to be determined by X-ray diffraction techniques.
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 2012 AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Syngenta prize
Professor Tim Donohoe has been awarded the 2012 AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Syngenta prize for Process Chemistry Research. The award will be presented at the forthcoming SCI Process Development Symposium being held in Cambridge between the 5th and 7th December 2012. Tim will receive a trophy and a cheque for £16,000 to support further research.
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 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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