Han Sen Soo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, $25,000 “Photocatalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Activation and Functionalization to Access Unnatural α-Amino Acids”
Qiu Wang, Duke University, $25,000 “Copper-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Coupling of Alcohols and Alkenes”
Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $50,000 “Tunable Catalytic C(sp3)-H Functionalization of Heterocyclic Scaffolds”
Hans Renata, Scripps Research, $50,000 “Biocatalytic Synthesis of Challenging Noncanonical Amino Acids”
Malgorzata Chwatko, University of Kentucky, $50,000 “Improvement of Peptide Yield and Solvent Reuse via Membrane Enhanced Peptides Synthesis”
Duncan Browne, University College of London, $50,000 “Learning to Extrude Chemical Reactions”