Professor Race wins 2021 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

Nicholas Race, assistant professor of chemistry, has won a 2021 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award. This award is presented every year to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors. The awardees are selected exclusively by the editorial board members of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, and SYNFACTS who constantly watch out for promising, young individuals working in chemical synthesis and catalysis or closely related areas of organic chemistry.  

Professor Race's research laboratory focuses on the development of new methodologies involving interesting reactive intermediates as key controlling elements for organic synthesis, with particular emphasis on atom- and redox-economic processes. Mechanistic investigation closely accompanies reaction development so that a deep understanding of the fundamental steps of the new (catalytic) process is acquired. It is anticipated that this mechanistic information will then, in turn, facilitate an expansion of the methodology in new directions.

For additional information, visit Professor Race's research page.