Charles Rees Award

The Charles Rees Award is to reward excellence in the field of heterocyclic chemistry.  The award covers the synthesis, properties and applications of all types of heterocyclic compounds.

Rules and Criteria

• Run biennially
• Open to everyone without restrictions
• Candidates are permitted to nominate themselves
• One page CV for the candidate which should include their date of birth, website URL, summary of education and career, a list of 5 relevant publications, total numbers of publications and patents
• A one page supporting statement addressing the selection criteria
• Nominations open 1 September 2009 
• Nominations close 31 January 2010 
• Award winner will be chosen by a committee of the Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group and overseen by the Organic Division Awards Committee
• The award winner will deliver a lecture at the 2011 Lakeland Symposium, Grasmere, UK
• Award winner receives £2000, a medal and a certificate   

About the award

The RSC Charles Rees Award was established in 2008. The first winner of this award will be announced in June 2010.

This award commemorates Charles Wayne Rees CBE, FRS who throughout his career devoted himself to heterocyclic chemistry. It was at King's College, London in 1965 that Rees published a classic paper describing one of his major contributions to chemistry; his brilliantly conceived oxidation of a heterocyclic amine to generate a highly reactive species.

During the latter years, Rees' work was defined by his interest in aromatic ring systems, his research group discovered the tricyclic [10]-annulenes and performed ground-breaking work on new heterocyclic systems rich in nitrogen and sulphur atoms.

From 1992 - 1994, Rees was the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received a CBE from the Queen in 1995.