The 26th Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry will be held on Friday, January 24th, 2025 (JST).
The gold medal will be presented to Professor Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany), and the silver medal will be presented to Professor Masayuki Inoue (The University of Tokyo, Japan).
The Nagoya Medal Award was initially proposed by Professor Hisashi Yamamoto and Professor Ryoji Noyori, and founded in 1995 with Professor Noyori as the president through the financial support of the MSD Life Science Foundation (Banyu). The Nagoya Gold Medal has been awarded every year to an organic chemist who has made significant original contributions to the field in its broadest sense. The first medal was presented to Professor Yoshito Kishi, and many eminent scientists have come to give lectures, including recipients of the Goto Memorial Lectureship started earlier. The Silver Medal, established in 1999, has been awarded every year to a front-runner based in Japan, whose research has a major impact on the field of synthetic organic chemistry. The medals are designed in the shape of a sword guard, an idea proposed by Professors Yamamoto and Noyori. The flowers on the surface are lilies, which are the city flower of Nagoya City, and have the meaning of “a kind heart and competitiveness”. At the award lectures, the recipients are asked to talk not only about the profundity of their unique chemistry, but also the in-depth philosophy behind it, encouraging young chemists and students.
The 26th Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry
Friday, January 24th, 2025, 10:00-17:50 (JST)
Gold Medal Lecture: Professor Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany)
1. “Formative Encounters with Catalysis”
2. “A New Reactivity Paradigm: trans-Hydrogenation, gem-Hydrogenation & trans-Hydrometalation of Alkynes”
3. “Adventures with Metal-Carbene Chemistry”
Silver Medal Lecture: Professor Masayuki Inoue (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Total Synthesis of Highly Oxygenated Natural Products”
Registration and Program Details:
Free of charge
URL: https://www.msd-life-science-foundation.or.jp/symp/nagoya/nagoya_prog2024.html
Chair:
Professor Takashi Ooi, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan
Sponsored by:
The Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry Committee
Co-sponsored by:
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University. Japan
Financial support by:
MSD Life Science Foundation
Supported by:
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
The Chemical Society of Japan
Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan