Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship
The annual Organometallics Distinguished Author Award recognizes the author of exceptional articles that are published in Organometallics. An article that emphasizes advance organometallic chemistry, profoundly impacts on organic and inorganic chemistry, and exhibits creativity and originality will be favorably reviewed.
Sponsorship of the Award:
The award is sponsored by Organometallics, the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
Nature of the Award:
The awardee will receive an 1) an award plaque, 2) an honorarium of US $2,000, and 3) travel funds to attend and present at the ACS Fall National Meeting.
Eligibility:
- Nominated articles must have been published in Organometallics within the current or previous calendar years.
- Self-nominations and nominations of work authored by Organometallics Editors will not be accepted.
- Co-authors are eligible to submit nominations.
- Preference will be given to faculty and other investigators who are in the early phases of their independent careers.
Nominations and Additional Info:
See the 2026 Award Page (for publications in 2024 or 2025). The nomination deadline is December 31, 2025.
Recent Recipients:
- 2026 – Courtney C. Roberts, University of Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA. See the ACS Axial interview for more information.
- 2025 – Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, for work including “Six-Membered Iridacycles with Five Nitrogen Atoms in the Ring“
- 2024 – Julia Khusnutdinova, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan for work including “Photoinduced Perfluoroalkylation Mediated by Cobalt Complexes Supported by Naphthyridine Ligands”
- 2023 – Jesús Campos Manzano, University of Seville, Spain, for work on
“Metalla-Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs), elegantly bridging late-transition-metal chemistry with main-group chemistry and catalysis for impactful developments in organic synthesis, Pub1, Pub2.”
- 2022 – Josep Cornella, Max Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung, for work including “Ni(4-tBustb)3: A Robust 16-Electron Ni(0) Olefin Complex for Catalysis“
- 2021 – Robert J. Gilliard, Jr., University of Virginia, for publications such as: “N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Mediated Ring Opening of Reduced Diazamagnesacycles ”
- 2020 – Viktoria H. Gessner, Ruhr University Bochum, for “Cooperative Bond Activation Reactions with Nickel and Palladium Carbene Complexes with a PCcarbeneS Pincer Ligand”
- 2019 – Ian Tonks, University of Minnesota, for “Generation of TiII Alkyne Trimerization Catalysts in the Absence of Strong Metal Reductants”
- 2018 – Tianning Diao, New York University, for “Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Cycloisomerization of Enynes with CO2”
- 2017 – Alexander J. M. Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for “Modulating the Elementary Steps of Methanol Carbonylation by Bridging the Primary and Secondary Coordination Spheres”
- 2016 – Valentine P. Ananikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, for “Can We Predict the Future of Organometallic Chemistry?”
Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award
The annual Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Lectureship recognizes the author of an exceptional, creative, and impactful article that is published in Organic Letters.
Sponsorship of the Award:
The award is sponsored by Organic Letters and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry.
Nature of the Award:
The awardee will receive an 1) an award plaque, 2) an honorarium of US $2,000, and 3) travel funds to attend and present at the ACS Fall National Meeting.
Eligibility:
- Nominated articles must have been published in Organic Letters within the current or previous calendar years.
- Self-nominations and nominations of work authored by Organic Letters Editors will not be accepted.
- Co-authors are eligible to submit nominations.
Nominations and Additional Info:
See the 2026 Award Page (for publications in 2025). The nomination deadline is December 31, 2025. Visit the ACS Axial article for more information.
Recent Recipients:
- 2026 – Marvin Parasram and colleagues from New York University for “Merging Photoexcited Nitroarenes with Lewis Acid Catalysis for the Anti-Markovnikov Oxidation of Alkenes“. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
- 2025 – Gabriel Schäfer and colleagues from Idorsia Pharmaceuticals and the University of Oxford for “Sandmeyer Chlorosulfonylation of (Hetero)Aromatic Amines Using DABSO as an SO2 Surrogate”. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
- 2024 – Cheng-yi Chen and Zhichao Lu from Mirati Therapeutics for “Synthesis of Adagrasib (MRTX849), a Covalent KRASG12C Inhibitor Drug for the Treatment of Cancer“
- 2023 – Daniele Leonori and colleagues at RWTH Aachen University, for “A Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT)-Based Approach to Indole Synthesis Using Aryl Diazonium Salts and Alkyl Iodides“
- 2022 – Sophie Rousseaux and John J. Monteith, University of Toronto, for “Ni-Catalyzed C(sp3)–O Arylation of α-Hydroxy Esters“
- 2021 – The Wilkerson-Hill group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for “Programmed Sequential Additions to Halogenated Mucononitriles ”
- 2020 – Ruben Martin, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), for “Ni-catalyzed Reductive Deaminative Arylation at sp3 Carbon Centers”
- 2019 – Gregory L. Beutner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, for “TCFH–NMI: Direct Access to N-Acyl Imidazoliums for Challenging Amide Bond Formations”
- 2018 – Tehshik P. Yoon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for “Radical Cation Cycloadditions Using Cleavable Redox Auxiliaries”
- 2017 – Xile Hu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), for “Alkoxy Hydrosilanes As Surrogates of Gaseous Silanes for Hydrosilylation of Alkenes”
- 2016 – Bruce H. Lipshutz, University of California, Santa Barbara, for “Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions in Water Enabled by Micellar Catalysis”
- 2013 – Dale L. Boger, The Scripps Research Institute, for “Iron(III)/NaBH4-Mediated Additions to Unactivated Alkenes: Synthesis of Novel 20′-Vinblastine Analogues”
