Abstract
FOLLOWING is the eighth set of vignettes of recipients of awards administered by the American Chemical Society for 2009. C&EN will publish the vignettes of the remaining recipients in March. JAMES FLACK NORRIS AWARD IN PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Sponsored by the ACS Northeastern Section Chemical radicals, with their unpaired electrons, are crucial—and detrimental— to many biological processes, from their involvement in DNA damage and repair to their roles in aging and numerous diseases. Yet their fleeting, reactive nature makes them difficult to study. Bernd Giese, professor at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, has made a career of investigating and harnessing these reactions. He is receiving the award for his contributions to the field of bioorganic radical chemistry. Giese is perhaps best known for his work on electron transfer reactions in DNA and peptides. He examined the oxidation of the DNA base guanine and proposed a now widely accepted mechanism in which electrons “hop” from ...
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