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Award-Winning Organometallic Chemistry: The 2012 Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
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n this issue, we feature for the second time this year an award article derived from the Werner Prize,1 which is conferred annually on the best (untenured) Swiss chemist under the age of 40.2,3 On this occasion, we honor the year 2012 recipient, Professor Nicolai Cramer of the É cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Earlier, we profiled the 2011 Prize, which was shared by two additional organometallic chemists, Professors Xile Hu and Reto Dorta.2 Per the whimsical graphic on this page, this can be construed as a two-year “sweep” or perhaps a “hat trick”, of which our community can be justly proud.
Figure 2. Prof. Nicolai Cramer en route to a summit in the Swiss Alps.
still more award-winning organometallic chemistry, as highlighted in recent issues.3 Nicolai, please except our heartiest congratulations for your many scientific achievements, as most deservedly recognized by the Werner Prize. We are certain that this represents only the beginning in what will be a long and productive career in which you scale many summits (Figure 2) and eagerly look forward to reading additional contributions from your laboratory in these pages and elsewhere in the future.
Prof. Cramer’s laudatio emphasizes his “research in the field of metal catalyzed carbon−carbon and carbon−hydrogen bond activation reactions, and their applications in organic synthesis”. Awardees receive a certificate (see Figure 1), a bronze medal, and 10 000 Swiss francs. A biographical sketch for Prof. Cramer can be found in the article that follows. From his exceptionally broad training and background, which began in his home country of Germany and has included stints in France, Japan, and the United States, he is clearly positioned to move organometallic chemistry into new directions and venues in the years to come. Furthermore, the EPFL has been the locus of
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(1) http://scg.ch/index.php/en/scg-awards-fr/90-scg-awardswerner/20-scg-awards-werner (2) Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2012, 31, 2119. (3) Previous Editor’s Page in this series: Gladysz, J. A. Organometallics 2012, 31, 7029−7030.
Figure 1. Prof. Nicolai Cramer being presented the 2012 Werner Prize by Prof. Dr. E. Peter Kündig, President of the Swiss Chemical Society. Photo by David Spichiger, Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland. © 2012 American Chemical Society
John A. Gladysz, Editor in Chief
Published: December 10, 2012 8039
dx.doi.org/10.1021/om3010228 | Organometallics 2012, 31, 8039−8039
