ORCHEM price
The Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry in the German Chemical Society awards the ORCHEM Award for Young Scientists every two years to early-career scientists who have distinguished themselves through new, original and pioneering scientific work in the field of organic chemistry and who do not yet hold a multi-year leadership position.
The award is endowed with EUR 5000 and supported by BASF. It is generally awarded to two people and comprises a certificate of award and prize money of € 2500 per person.
The ORCHEM Award is traditionally presented at the ORCHEM Conference. The awardees present the results of their award-winning work here in a lecture.
Next call for proposals: autumn/winter 2027
Locations and academic titles at the time of the award ceremony
2026
Prof. Dr. John J. Molloy, Freie Universität Berlin, in recognition of his fundamental and pioneering work combining organoboron and photochemistry.
Dr. Charalampos (Babis) Pappas, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, in recognition of his fundamental and pioneering work in the field of acyl phosphate-mediated systems chemistry.
2024
Dr. Malte Gersch, TU Dortmund University, in recognition of his fundamental and pioneering work investigating proteolytic enzymes of the ubiquitin system.
Dr. Golo Storch, Technische Universität München, in recognition of his fundamental and pioneering work in the field of organic photochemistry, particularly the investigation of flavin systems in molecular photocatalysis.
2022
Dr. Johannes Broichhagen, Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology Berlin in recognition of his work on the development of new molecular tools to answer important questions in the life sciences.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Max Hansmann, TU Dortmund University in recognition of his fundamental and pioneering work in the field of the synthesis and characterisation of reactive intermediates and the development of organic redox systems.
2020 (Award presented at the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry 2021 due to the pandemic)
Dr. Josep Cornella (Mülheim a. d. Ruhr) in recognition of his groundbreaking work on redox catalysis with bismuth.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Heretsch (Berlin) in recognition of his widely acclaimed work on the synthesis of steroids and terpenes.
2018
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Florian Beuerle (Würzburg) in recognition of his innovative and widely acclaimed work in the field of dynamic covalent chemistry for constructing highly defined cage compounds and two-dimensional π-conjugated polymer materials.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ivana Fleischer (Tübingen) in recognition of her innovative and widely acclaimed work in the field of the selective functionalisation of olefins and carboxylic acid derivatives and resource-efficient catalysis with non-noble metals.
2016
Prof. Dr. Olga Garcia Mancheño (Regensburg) in recognition of her innovative and widely acclaimed work on the topic “Novel Synthetic Methods based on C-H bonds & Modern Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis”.
Dr. Thomas Magauer (Munich) in recognition of his widely acclaimed and innovative work on the topic “Natural Products as a Rich Source of Pharmaceuticals and Inspiration for Innovative Chemical Transformations”.
2014
Prof. Dr. Franziska Schoenebeck (Aachen) in recognition of her innovative and widely acclaimed theoretical and experimental studies of reaction mechanisms, particularly palladium-catalysed reactions
Prof. Dr. Daniel Werz (Braunschweig) in recognition of his widely acclaimed and innovative work on carbohydrate chemistry and the synthesis of heterocycles via donor–acceptor cyclopropanes
2012
Prof. Dr. Christian Hackenberger (Berlin) in recognition of his widely acclaimed and innovative work on chemoselective ligation and the efficient synthesis of protein–protein and protein–carbohydrate conjugates
Prof. Dr. Axel Jacobi von Wangelin (Regensburg) in recognition of his widely acclaimed and innovative work on iron-catalysed coupling reactions and metal-, organo- and photocatalytic syntheses of carbo- and heterocycles.
2010
Dr. Hans-Dieter Arndt (Dortmund) in recognition of his widely acclaimed contributions to synthesis-supported chemical biology, particularly his organic-synthetic and molecular-biological work on cyclic thiopeptide antibiotics
Prof. Dr. Nicolai Cramer (Zurich) in recognition of his widely acclaimed and innovative work on selective transition-metal-catalysed bond activation with ring opening and the efficient synthesis of complex natural products and active pharmaceutical ingredients
2008
Dr. Peter Spiteller (Munich) in recognition of his widely acclaimed work on the isolation and structural elucidation of novel metabolites of higher fungi and their ecological function in defence against predators
Prof. Dr. Magnus Rueping (Frankfurt a. M.) in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions in the highly competitive field of organocatalysis, particularly his work on enantioselective BrØnsted acid catalysis
2006
Dr. Lutz Ackermann (Munich) in recognition of his widely acclaimed development of air-stable phosphine oxides as preligands for Pd-, Ni- and Ru-catalysed cross-coupling reactions of chloroarenes
Prof. Dr. Martin Oestreich (Münster) in recognition of his innovative contributions to asymmetric synthesis, particularly with the aid of bicyclic organosilicon compounds with silicon-based chirality
2004
Dr. Frank Glorius (Mülheim) in recognition of his design of bis(oxazoline)-derived carbene ligands for organometallic catalysis and his asymmetric hydrogenation of chirally modified pyridines
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wagenknecht (Garching) in recognition of his investigations into the mechanism of novel, reduction-initiated charge-transfer processes through DNA
2002
Prof. Dr. A. Stephen K. Hashmi (Stuttgart) in recognition of his contributions to the homogeneous gold catalysis of organic reactions and the chemistry of metallacycloalkanes
Dr. Michael Müller (Jülich) in recognition of his work on the development of enantioselective enzymatic syntheses
2000
Dr. Dr. Clemens Richert (Konstanz) in recognition of his original contributions to the molecular recognition of nucleic acid structures, particularly his work on “molecular caps”, which points towards new avenues for the development of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Dr. Stefan Bräse (Aachen) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to organic solid-phase synthesis, opening up new possibilities for the development of biologically active compounds