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Thieme Publishers, IUPAC, and the Editors of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, SYNFACTS, and Science of Synthesis announce the Thieme–IUPAC Prize in 2012 Synthetic Organic Chemistry Melanie S. Sanford Melanie S. Sanford We are delighted to announce that the of important reactions in organic syn- Members of the 2012 2012 Thieme–IUPAC Prize has been thesis and in the development of a fun- Selection Committee: awarded to Melanie S. Sanford of the Uni- damental mechanistic understanding of versity of Michigan. Professor Sanford these organometallic reactions. She is becomes the 11th recipient of the prize, internationally recognized as one of the V. Snieckus (Chairman) and joins a select group of scientists foremost investigators in the develop- Kingston, Canada under the age of 40 years whose research ment of catalytic processes for the site- J. Cossy has had a major impact on the field of selective functionalization of C—H bonds, Paris, France synthetic organic chemistry. The prize, an exceptionally challenging area of which is presented every two years and chemical research. Her research focus has A. B. Charette includes an award of €5000, will be given included the development of new strat- Montreal, Canada to Melanie Sanford on July 3, 2012 at the egies for achieving this ambitious goal, ICOS-19 conference in Melbourne, Aus- providing the mechanistic understanding D. Ma tralia, after her Thieme–IUPAC lecture. of how the reactions work, and clarifying Shanghai, P. R. China Melanie Sanford completed her B.S. the underlying mechanistic principles in and M.S. degrees at Yale University, car- a way that will allow their application in K. Nozaki rying out undergraduate research in many further classes of reactions. Tokyo, Japan the group of Robert Crabtree, and then Other recent areas of investigation by M. A. Rizzacasa undertook Ph.D. studies at the California Melanie Sanford involve the fields of fuel Melbourne, Australia Institute of Technology under the super- and energy research. Initial studies from vision of Robert Grubbs. She then moved her laboratories have examined the oligo- P. Savage to Princeton University for two years of merization of methane, and the develop- Clayton, Australia postdoctoral study with John Groves, ment of tandem sequences of catalysts before beginning her independent career for the selective, low-temperature reduc- with an appointment as Assistant Pro- tion of carbon dioxide to methanol. fessor of Chemistry at the University of In her research, Melanie Sanford is at Michigan in 2003. She was promoted to the forefront of the catalytic organome- Associate Professor in 2007, to full Pro- tallic–synthetic organic chemistry inter- fessor in 2010, and to her current posi- face. She has demonstrated new reac- tion of Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of tivity principles, developed practical and Chemistry in 2011. widely used synthetic methods, and rig- Georg Thieme Verlag Ruedigerstr. 14 Professor Sanford has a particular orously established the mechanistic prin- 70469 Stuttgart interest in catalysis involving high oxida- ciples of her methods as a guide to the Germany tion state palladium complexes. She has many investigators who are applying her www.thieme-chemistry.com shown that palladium(IV) complexes, fundamental findings. which were earlier considered to be inac- We heartily congratulate Melanie San- cessible under ambient conditions, can, ford and look forward to hearing the with careful design of supporting ligands, latest exciting developments from her be synthesized and studied in detail. laboratories, an Account of which will be More generally, her research program at published in Synlett, at her award lecture Michigan is at the leading edge of the use in Melbourne, Australia. of transition metals to catalyze a variety Thieme Publishers, IUPAC, and the Editors of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, SYNFACTS, Members of past and Science of Synthesis present the winners of the Selection Committees V. Aggarwal J. E. Baldwin in Thieme–IUPAC Prize A. G. M. Barrett D. Bellus Synthetic Organic Chemistry D. Black C. Bolm M. Brimble K.-H. Büchel Phil S. Baran A. B. Charette 2010 Scripps Research Institute D. Clive P. Confalone E. J. Corey D. Curran C. Decicco F. Dean Toste S. Denmark 2008 University of California, Berkeley D. Evans V. Farina I. Fleming A. Fürstner David W. C. MacMillan L. Ghosez 2006 R. Grubbs California Institute of Technology S. Hanessian T. Hayashi C. H. Heathcock D. Hoppe John F. Hartwig E. N. Jacobsen 2004 E. Juaristi Yale H. Kagan S. Kim Y. Kishi P. Knochel Erick M. Carreira K. Koga 2002 N. J. Leonard ETH Zürich E. Lee S. V. Ley M. Makosza L. Mander Alois Fürstner S. Martin 2000 G. Mehta Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung A.G. Myers K. C. Nicolaou R. Noyori M. Oki Andrew G. Myers W. Oppolzer L. Overman 1998 California Institute of Technology E. Piers M. Reetz M. Regitz P. Reider Eric N. Jacobsen C. Scolastico 1996 Harvard K. B. Sharpless M. Shibasaki V. Snieckus (Chairman) W. N. Speckamp L. Sydnes Paul Knochel E. J. Thomas 1994 Marburg B. M. Trost B. Volkman H. Yamamoto Y. Yamamoto Stuart L. Schreiber 1992 Harvard 2012. 2012. Printed in Germany. / III – Mat.-Nr. 1055.