Geoffrey Wilkinson Current Winner

Ernesto Carmona CChem FRSC, University of Seville, Spain

Awarded for his outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of low-valent molybdenum and tungsten complexes including pioneering work on the coordination chemistry of carbon dioxide, the structural properties of main group metal organometallic and cyclopentadienyl compounds, the study of interactions between actinide organometallic compounds and carbon monoxide and detailed mechanistic studies of the properties of late transition metal allyl compounds and their relevance to a range of catalytic reactions.