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Jun 13, 2023, 8 tweets

Five of our academics have been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes this year! 🎆🏅
Read on for details about all of them below... 👇
@RoySocChem #RSCPrizes

Dr Josef Boronski (@JosefBoronski) has received the Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize for his groundbreaking investigations into actinide-cyclobutadienyl chemistry #RSCPrizes

Prof Tom Brown (@Prof_Tom_Brown) has been awarded the Khorana Prize for major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysis and diagnostics #RSCPrizes

Prof Darren Dixon (@dixon_group) gets the Tilden Prize for the discovery, development and applications of iridium-catalysed reductive functionalisation of amides and lactams #RSCPrizes

Prof Stephen Fletcher (@spfletcher) receives the Merck, Sharp and Dohme Prize for the development of asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura-type and other catalytic cross-coupling reactions with racemic starting materials #RSCPrizes

And finally, Prof Ludmilla Steier (@LudmillaSteier) wins the Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize for seminal contributions to the understanding of defect chemistry in semiconducting materials and interfacial energetics in photocatalytic and photovoltaic devices #RSCPrizes

Congratulations to all the winners! 🥳

You can read more about them and their research in our article here: chem.ox.ac.uk/article/five-r…

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