Chirality Medal

The Chirality Medal, instituted by the Societa Chimica Italiana in 1991 to honor internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to all aspects of chirality, is awarded each year by a Chirality Medal Honour Committee comprising the Chirality International Committee members and the most recent recipients of the medal.

The CHIRALITY MEDAL Award Lecture will be part of the scientific program of the conference.

Professor Kenji Mori Winner of 2010 Chirality Medal

Kenji Mori, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Japan, has won the 2010 Chirality Medal, in a stiff competition between a large field of excellent candidates. Professor Mori receives the honor for his tremendous achievements in the synthesis and stereochemistry of natural product, in particular, the developments of enantioselective and enantiospecific synthesis of a large family of insect pheromones and other bioactive natural compounds.

Professor Mori has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the importance of chirality of signal molecules, such as chiral pheromones and hormones of both configurations, and elucidated the relationships between their biological activities and stereochemistry.

With this award Kenji Mori joins 20 other distinguished scientists who have received the prize, since the Societa Chimica Italiana instituted it in 1991. He will receive the 2010 Chirality Medal, and present the Award Lecture at Chirality 2010, the 22nd International Symposium on Chirality (ISCD-22), on July 12, 2010 in Sapporo, Japan.

The Chirality Medal has been previously awarded to the following scientists:

1991
E. Gil-Av (Israel) and J. Jacques (France)
1992
V. Prelog (Switzerland)
1993
K. Mislow (USA)
1994
W. Pirkle (USA)
1995
K. Nakanishi (USA)
1996
E. L. Eliel (USA)
1997
R. Noyori (Japan)
1998
H. Kagan (France)
1999
V. Davankov (Russia)
2000
K. B. Sharpless (USA)
2001
Y. Okamoto (Japan)
2002
D. Seebach (Switzerland)
2003
D. W. Armstrong (USA)
2004
V. Schurig (Germany)
2005
K. Soai (Japan)
2006
M. Lahav (Israel)
2007
N. Berova (USA)
2008
W. Lindner (Austria)
2009
B. L. Feringa (The Netherlands)