Professor Martin Burke was chosen to receive the 2013 Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator. This $5,000 award sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund annually recognizes an individual under the age of 40 who has demonstrated outstanding creativity in the field of synthetic organic chemistry. A nominee must have accomplished research that is of exceptional merit and adds value to the field, such as the contribution of a novel and highly useful reagent, reaction, or catalytic process that solves a synthetic problem of considerable importance.

Professor Burke was selected "for developing MIDA boronates into a simple and flexible platform for the synthesis of complex small molecules, including several major polyene natural products."

The award will be presented to Professor Burke at the upcoming American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans.

For more information about the E. J. Corey Award, please visit the C&E News page listing the ACS 2013 National Award winners.