Best Presentation Awards, sponsored by Helvetica and Chemistry Europe

Helvetica and Chemistry Europe supported the Best Presentation Award Program and honored the a winner and two runners-up in the categories Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation.

Prof. Christian Bochet, President of the SCS (on the pictures) and Prof. Philippe Renaud, Chair of the Summer School, handed over the prizes at the the closing session of the Summer School.

The SCS and the two sponsors like to congratulate all winners for their high qualtiy contributions.

1^st prize:      
Tanno A. Schmidt, University of Basel
«Catalyst Control over Threefold Stereogenicity: C–S Atropisomeric Sulfones»

Runners-up:
Amal Lakhal, Sorbonne Université
«Diastereoselective Radical Cyclization Cascade of Ynamides Enabling Access to New Trifluoromethylated Tricyclic Structures»
Cedric Fung, EPFL Lausanne (not on the photo)
«Access to structurally diverse lignans»

1^st prize:
Takuji Fujii, EPFL Lausanne (not on the photo)
«Oxidative [2+2] Annulation of Arylboronic acids and Alkenyl Amides Enabled by Pd(II)/(IV)-Redox Cycle»

Runners-up:
Chao Fan, EPFL Lausanne
«Regiodivergent and Enantioselective Hydroalkylation of Sulfones»
Christeena Mathew, EPFL Lausanne
«Synthesis and Reactivity of a Terminal 1-Alkynyl Triazene»