R. Zare Receives Teaching Award

Richard N. Zare, Professor in NaturalScience at Stanford University (USA),received the 2004 James Flack NorrisAward of the Northeastern Section of

the American ChemicalSociety for outstandingachievement in teaching.His award speech was enti-tled “Chemical Fizzics:Seeing Chemistry inAction”. Zare�s researchon laser chemistry has ledto a better understandingof chemical reactions atthe molecular level. Hisimportant experimentaland theoretical contribu-tions to our knowledge ofmolecular collision proc-

esses and to chemical analysis includethe development of laser-induced fluo-rescence as a means to investigate reac-tion dynamics. He recently co-authoreda Communication in AngewandteChemie entitled “Continuous Two-Channel Time-of-Flight Mass Spectro-metric Detection of ElectrosprayedIons” and an article in ChemPhysChemon the photon-counting histogram andone-photon excitation.[1] Zare is amember of the editorial advisoryboards of these two journals and theauthor of a textbook on angular momen-tum in chemistry and physics.[1c]

Zare completed his PhD in chemicalphysics in 1964 at Harvard University(USA) under the guidance of D. Hersch-bach (Nobel Prize 1986) and thenbecame assistant professor at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT,USA). From 1966 to 1969 he held jointappointments at the University of Colo-rado at Boulder in the departments ofchemistry, physics, and astrophysics. Hewas appointed full professor at Colum-

bia University in 1969 and moved toStanford University in 1977.

Distinction for G. H�fle

Gerhard H�fle has been recognizedwith a Karl Heinz Beckurts Award forhis work in thefield of naturalproducts synthesisalong with HansReichenbach. Theaward is presentedin memory ofthe physicist KarlHeinz Beckurts bythe foundation ofthe same nameof the HelmholtzAssociation of Na-tional ResearchCenters (in Germany). Beckurtsworked at the nuclear research facilitiesin Karlsruhe und J�lich (Germany).From 1980 he was a member of theboard of directors of Siemens AG. Hiscommitment to nuclear energy madehim a target for terrorism, and he diedas a victim of a terrorist attack in 1986.

H�fle completed his PhD in 1968with W. Steglich at the TechnischeHochschule M�nchen (Germany),undertook postdoctoral research withJ. E. Baldwin at MIT, and completedhis habilitation in 1975 at the TechnischeUniversit�t Berlin (Germany) with F.Bohlmann. He has been director of thenatural products chemistry section ofthe Gesellschaft f�r BiotechnologischeForschung in Braunschweig (Germany)since 1978 and extraordinary professorat the technical university there since1983. The work of H�fle and Reichen-bach on secondary metabolites frommyxobacteria have enabled access tonovel classes of natural products. H�flediscovered the epothilones: a class ofnatural products which are activeagainst tumor cells that are resistant toother cytostatic drugs. An epothilonedrug is currently in the final phase ofclinical trials. Recently both prize win-ners reported in Angewandte Chemieon tubulysins from myxobacteria.[2] AHighlight by H�fle entitled “LongSought The Bioactive Conformation ofEpothilone and Its Binding in Tubulin”will appear soon in Angewandte Chemie.

Franco-Spanish Prize toE. Carmona

Ernesto Carmona has been awarded theFranco-Spanish Prize of the Soci�t�Fran�aise de Chimie for his internation-ally recognized work in organometallicchemistry. Carmona completed hisPhD in 1974 at the University of Seville(Spain) under theguidance of F. Gon-zalez. After a post-doctoral periodfrom 1974 to 1977with the Nobel lau-reate Sir GeoffreyWilkinson at Impe-rial College London(UK), he returnedas assistant profes-sor to Seville,where he has beenprofessor since 1983. He has been a vis-iting professor in Alabama (USA),Oxford (UK), and Toulouse (France).

Carmona�s research on organome-tallic chemistry and homogeneous catal-ysis is focused in particular on C�H acti-vation, C�C bond-forming reactions,transition-metal–alkyl compounds andsimilar species in insertion and polymer-ization reactions, and the activation ofsmall molecules, such as N2, CO, CO2,and ethene. He recently described inAngewandte Chemie an equilibriumbetween iridium hydride alkylideneand iridium hydride alkene isomers.[3]

Carmona is a member of the EditorialBoard of Chemistry – A European Jour-nal, which is celebrating its 10th anniver-sary this year.

[1] a) O. Trapp, J. R. Kimmel, O. K. Yoon,I. A. Zuleta, F. M. Fernandez, R. N.Zare, Angew. Chem. 2004, 116, 6703;Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 6541;b) B. Huang, T. D. Perroud, R. N. Zare,ChemPhysChem 2004, 5, 1523; c) R. N.Zare, Angular Momentum: Understand-ing Spatial Aspects in Chemistry andPhysics, Wiley, New York, 1988.

[2] H. Steinmetz, N. Glaser, E. Herdtweck, F.Sasse, H. Reichenbach, G. H�fle, Angew.Chem. 2004, 116, 4996; Angew. Chem. Int.Ed. 2004, 43, 4888.

[3] M. Paneque, M. L. Poveda, L. L. Santos,E. Carmona, A. Lled�s, G. Ujaque, K.Mereiter, Angew. Chem. 2004, 116,3794; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43,3708.

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