Award announcement: Laureate of the International Arbuzovs Prize in organophosphorus chemistry for 2019

Abstract

Recently, I received a correspondence from Professor Andrey Karasik, Head of the A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry in Tatarstan, Russia, and Member of the Awarding Committee for the International Arbuzovs Prize in Organophosphorus Chemistry. The International Arbuzovs Prize in the Field of Organophosphorus Chemistry was established in memory of the outstanding Russian chemists, Alexander and Boris Arbuzovs, by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan in 1997. The Arbuzovs Prize is awarded biennially to an honored Russian or foreign chemist for a “single scientific achievement or a set of scientific results in the development of phosphorus chemistry.” Professor Karasik wrote: “Laureates of the International Arbuzovs Prize are outstanding scientists from the leading scientific centers of the USA, Japan, China and Europe.” Past winners of the award include: 1997 – Professors Arkady Pudovik (Russia) and Louis Quin (USA) 1999 – Professor Jan Michalski (Poland) 2001 – Professor Francois Mathey (France) 2003 – Professor Edgar Niecke (Germany) 2005 – Professor Masaaki Yoshifuji (Japan) 2007 – Professor Irina P. Beletskaya (Russia)† 2009 – Professor Marian Mikolajczyk (Poland) 2011 – Professor Michael Blackburn (United Kingdom) 2013 – Professor Valerii Kukhar (Ukraine) 2015 – Professor Yufen Zhao (China) 2017 – Professor Manfred Scheer (Germany) ( indicates Editorial/Emeritus Board Member of Phosphorus Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements) For 2019, the international committee has chosen Professor Oleg Sinyashin as the winner of this prestigious prize. The presentation of the medal and diploma was made at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan on 21 October 2019. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan bestowed this honor at a ceremony that included many public officials and members of the scientific community, and was followed by a lecture by Professor Sinyashin entitled “Phosphorus as a Structure Forming Element in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.” The citation indicates that the Awarding Committee recognizes [his] “fundamental results in the synthesis structure and reactivity of trivalent phosphorus compounds and their application in coordination and organometallic chemistry as well as for developing new scientific direction – selective electrochemical activation and functionalization of organic molecules and elemental (white) phosphorus.” He follows Professor Pudovik as the second winner of the Arbuzovs Prize from the School of Chemistry in Kazan.