ChemPubSoc Europe News, September 2019

ChemCatChem: Special Issue on Women of Catalysis

ChemCatChem’s Special Issue Women of Catalysisis a venue to celebrate the achievements of female-led research groups in the field and highlight some of the best research developed by women. Guest edited by Deryn E. Fogg, Petra E. de Jongh, and Li-Zhu Wu, this Special Issue seeks to promote a more balanced female representation in invited speaker lists, conference and editorial boards, and as leaders in research consortia. Read the Editorial and meet the Women of Catalysis! Enjoy free access until the end of October 2019.

Link to the Editorial
Link to the Special Issue

ChemPlusChem: Special Issue on π-Conjugated (Macro)molecules and their Applications

ChemPlusChemhas just published its latest Special Issue on π-Conjugated (Macro)molecules and their Applications in collaboration with Guest Editors Paolo Samorí (Université de Strasbourg), Xinliang Feng (Technische Universität Dresden), and Davide Bonifazi (Cardiff University). It highlights some of the many approaches toward the synthesis of novel conjugated (macro)molecules. A particular focus of the issue is the special properties that arise from the π-conjugation, including self-assembly at surfaces and integration into optoelectronic, photovoltaic, and other devices. Enjoy free access until the end of October 2019.

Link to the Special Issue

ChemistryViews.org: The Best Element Videos

Last chance to enter the "Element Video Competition": You are invited to share a video (max. 3 min) showing an element or an element in its compounds in a visually appealing way.

Submit your video before October 1, 2019 and have the chance to win an iPad. 

Link to the Competition

David Spichiger, SCS
16.09.2019

Photos of the SCS Fall Meeting, Sep 5-6, 2019

The SCS Fall Meeting 2019 took place at Irchel Campus of University of Zürich on September 6, 2019.

More than 100 lectures and short talks in eight parallel sessions and a poster session with about 420 poster formed the scientific program. 20 companies presented their services and products in a commercial exhibition.

Website of the SCS Fall Meeting 2019

Photos of the SCS Fall Meeting 2019

Dinner in the Zunfthaus zur Waag, September 5, 2019

Best Oral Presentation Award Ceremony

Best Poster Presentation Award Ceremony

Ceremony of the SCS Helvetica Prize 2019

Laureates speakers

Invited speakers and short talk speakers

Winners of the Exhibitor Challenge

General conference picutres and exhibition

Photos: H.P. Lühti, SCS

Dinner in the Zunfthaus zur Waag, September 5, 2019

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Laureates speakers

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Invited speakers and short talk speakers

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Winners of the Exhibitor Challenge

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General conference picutres and exhibition

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David Spichiger, SCS
10.09.2019

Helvetica Prize of the SCS 2019 awarded to Jovana Milić and Kevin Weiland

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2019 Helvetica, represented by its eidtors in chief, Prof. Christophe Copéret and Prof. Jeff Bode, as well als Helvetica Managing Editor Dr. Richard Smith, awarded the Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society for the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs 2018/19 in Helvetica Chimica Acta to Jovana Milić and Kevin Weiland. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner up.

1^st Prize: Jovana V. Milić (ETH Zurich, Group of Prof. François Diederich)
Title of the publication: «Thioether-Functionalized Quinone-Based Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands: Electroswitchable Molecular Actuators»
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.201800225

2^nd Prize: Kevin J. Weiland (University of Basel, Group of  Prof. Marcel Mayor)
Title of the publication: «A Chiral Macrocyclic Oligothiophene with Broken Conjugation – Rapid Racemization through Internal Rotation»
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.201800205

It's the first time that the Journal in collaboration with the SCS awards this distinction. It highlights scienific excellence of two young researchers and both of them gave a 3min short communication at the SCS Fall Meeting 2019 at University of Zurich on September 6, 2019

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David Spichiger, SCS
10.09.2019

Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards at the SCS Fall Meeting 2019

In collaboration with DSM Nutritional Products, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Poster Award program. Combined with the Best Oral Presentation Awards program this is probably the most highly remunerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to DSM Nutritional Products Ltd for their generous support and congratulate all winners for their fantastic contributions.

Dr. Thomas Netscher, Principal Scientist at DSM and SCS Senior Industrial Science Award Winner, awarded a total of 23 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting at University of Zurich on September 6, 2019.

Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards 2019

Photos: H.P. Lühti, SCS

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David Spichiger, SCS
10.09.2019