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2022-23
Gregory H. Robinson
University of Georgia
"Creative Writing in Scientific Research Articles"
"From N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Trek through Main Group Chemistry"
2021-22
Karen Goldberg
University of Pennsylvania
"Developing Alternatives to Oil as Feedstocks for Our Chemicals and Liquid Fuels"
"Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Organometallic Chemistry"
2018-19
Linda Nazar
University of Waterloo
"Electrochemical Energy Storage for a Sustainable Energy Future"
"Hard Chemistry: Solid State Electrolytes and Sold State Batteries"
2017-18
John F. Hartwig
University of California - Berkeley
"Selective, Catalytic Functionalization of C-H Bonds"
"Artificial Metalloenzymes with Noble Metals Created from Heme Proteins"
2016-17
Omar Yaghi
University of California - Berkeley
"The Atom, the Molecule and the Framework"
"A Carbon Neutral Cycle and Harvesting Water from Air"
2015-16
Fraser Armstrong
Oxford University
"The Importance of Metalloenzymes for Advancing Electrocatalysis"
"The Chemical Principles of Biohydrogen"
2014-2015
Richard Eisenberg
University of Rochester
"Fifty Years of Dithiolenes: A Gray Dawn, the Loss of Innocence and Fulfilling the Promise"
"Fuel from Water: The Light Driven Generation of Hydrogen"
2013-14
Jacqueline K. Barton
California Institute of Technology
"Signaling through DNA"
"Targeting DNA Mismatches with Metalloinsertors"
2012-13
Donald J. Darensbourg
Texas A&M University
"Making Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide"
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
Texas A&M University
"Molecular constructs as [FeFe]-H2ase Enzyme Active Site Biometrics for Proton Reduction"
2011-12
Lawrence Que, Jr.
University of Minnesota
"Bio-inspired Hydrocarbon Oxidations by Nonheme Iron Catalysts"
"High-valent Iron: Structures, Spin States, and Reactivity"
2010-11
Robert H. Grubbs
California Institute of Technology
"Sputnik, Catalysis and Metathesis"
"The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts"
2009-10
Kenneth N. Raymond
University of California - Berkeley
"Siderophore Stealth"
"Supramolecular Metal-Ligand Clusters as Chiral Flasks and Synthetic Enzymes"
2008-09
Michael Grätzel
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanna
"Molecular Photovoltaics"
"Solar Hydrogen Generation from Water"
2007-08
Edward Solomon
Stanford University
"Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites"
"Structure/Function Correlations over non-Heme Iron Enzymes"
2006-07
Malcolm Chisholm
Ohio State University
"Routes to New Generation Polymers Employing Single-site Metal Alkoxide Catalysts, Polysters, Polyethers and Polycarbonates from Renewable Resources"
"Electronic Coupling Involving Carboxylate Links and MM Quadruple Bonds, Where M = Mo and W. M2 δ to Ligand π-Conjugation"
2005-06
Tobin J. Marks
Northwestern University
"Self-Assembly Approaches to Structures for Electronic Organics"
Bridges Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis. Single- and Multiple-Site Olefin Polymerization"
2004-05
Joan S. Valentine
University of California, Los Angeles
"Copper-Zinc Superoxice Dismutase and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)"
"Biophysical Studies of a Disease-Causing Metalloprotein"
2003-04
Konrad Seppelt
Freie Universitat Berlin
"Metal Xenon and Other Cations in Super Acidic Solutions"
"Non Octahedral Structures"
2002-03
John E. Bercaw
California Institute of Technology
"Towards a Catalytic Alkane Hydroxylation Catalyst Using Dioxygen as the Oxidant"
"Olefin Oligomerization and Polymerization with Organotransition Metal Catalysts"
2001-02
Robert H. Crabtree
Yale University
"Hydrides and Hydrogen Bonding"
"Advances in Catalysis"