Fluorine Chemistry Award
Announcing the Winner of the 2023 RSC Fluorine Prize: Dr Tatiana Besset
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the winner of the 2023 RSC Fluorine Prize is Dr Tatiana Besset (UMR6014 COBRA, CNRS, INSA ROUEN Normandie, Université Rouen Normandie). The RSC Fluorine Prize is awarded to a young researcher who has made a significant contribution to the area of fluorine chemistry and is chosen by an international panel of fluorine chemists. Dr Besset’s research focuses on the use of metal catalysed C-H activation and the development of new strategies for the synthesis of fluorinated building blocks. She has published >80 publications with recent highlights including the development of palladium catalysed (ethoxycarbonyl)difluoromethylthiolation reactions and the development of an electrophillic reagent for the direct introduction of SCF2PO(OEt)2 groups into molecules. Dr Besset undertook doctoral studies with Dr Andrew E. Greene at the University of Grenoble followed by postdoctoral studies with Prof. Frank Glorius (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster) and Prof. Joost N. H. Reek (University of Amsterdam). In 2012 she became a CNRS Researcher in the “Fluorinated Biomolecules Synthesis” group of Prof. Xavier Pannecoucke (Université de Rouen) and in 2017 was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Dr Besset has made a highly impactful contribution to fluorine chemistry and we are delighted to be able to award her the 2023 RSC Fluorine Prize.
About the award
The Fluorine Award, which is awarded every two years, is associated with the RSC Fluorine Chemistry Group.
The Fluorine Award is a fully international award which is not restricted to members of the RSC. The Award will recognise the most meritorious contribution of a younger (under 40 years of age) chemist working in any area of fluorine chemistry as evidenced by their publications. The Award will be judged by an international panel on behalf of the RSC Fluorine Chemistry Group.
Previous winners of the RSC Fluorine Chemistry Award:
- 2023: Dr Tatiana Besset, Université de Rouen, France
- 2021: Dr Pavel Mykhailiuk, Enamine Ltd, Ukraine
- 2019: Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton, USA
- 2017: Professor Petr Beier, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2015: Professor Xingang Zhang, Shanghai, China
- 2013: Professor Tobias Ritter, Harvard, USA
- 2011: Professor Melanie Sanford, Michigan, USA
- 2009: Professor Jinbo Hu, Shanghai, China
- 2007: Professor Thomas Braun, Berlin, Germany
- 2005: Professor Norio Shibata, Nagoya, Japan
Nominations are invited on behalf of applicants who are Early Career Chemists, typically under 40 years of age as of 31 December 2022 (taking into account any career breaks, please provide motivation).
The Award will consist of a £500 prize and the winner will be invited to give a lecture at the RSC Fluorine Chemistry Group Postgraduate Meeting in 2023.
How to apply
Applicants must be nominated and should not make applications on their own behalf.
Nominators should only send a cover letter (2 pages max), a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a full publication list by e-mail to the chair of the RSC Fluorine Chemistry Group:
Prof Bruno Linclau, Ghent University, Belgium
NB: No additional letters of support will be taken into account.
The deadline to apply for the 2023 prize has passed.