Arthur C. Cope Award

The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry research. It is sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund, and has been awarded annually since 1973 by the American Chemical Society. It consists of $25,000, a medallion, and $150,000 in funding for research in organic chemistry.

Recipients

2027 – David MacMillan 2026 – Gregory C. Fu 2025 – Timothy M. Swager 2024 – William L. Jorgensen 2023 – Scott Denmark 2022 – Véronique Gouverneur 2021 – John Hartwig 2020 – Dennis A. Dougherty 2019 – Dieter Seebach 2018 – Steven V. Ley 2017 – Carolyn R. Bertozzi 2016 – Eric N. Jacobsen 2015 – Paul A. Wender 2014 – Stuart Schreiber 2013 – Stephen L. Buchwald 2012 – Chi-Huey Wong 2011 – Nicholas Turro 2010 – Kendall N. Houk 2009 – Manfred T. Reetz 2008 – J. Fraser Stoddart 2007 – Jean Fréchet 2006 – Peter G. Schultz 2005 – K.C. Nicolaou 2004 – Barry M. Trost 2003 – Larry E. Overman 2002 – Robert H. Grubbs 2001 – George A. Olah 2000 – David A. Evans 1999 – Ralph F. Hirschmann 1998 – Samuel J. Danishefsky 1997 – Ryōji Noyori 1996 – Robert G. Bergman 1995 – George M. Whitesides 1994 – John D. Roberts 1993 – Peter B. Dervan 1992 – K. Barry Sharpless 1991 – Gerhard L. Closs 1990 – Koji Nakanishi 1989 – William S. Johnson, Norman Allinger 1988 – Kenneth B. Wiberg 1987 – Ronald Breslow 1986 – Duilio Arigoni 1984 – Albert J. Eschenmoser 1982 – Frank H. Westheimer 1980 – Gilbert J. Stork 1978 – 1976 – Elias J. Corey 1974 – Donald J. Cram 1973 – Roald Hoffmann and Robert B. Woodward

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards The Arthur C. Cope Fund also sponsors an additional ten awards each year called the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984 by the ACS Board of Directors, on recommendation of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, under the terms of the will of Arthur C. Cope.

Recipients include:

2027 – Kay Brummond, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Andrew McNally, Takashi Ooi, Courtney C. Roberts, Rebecca T. Ruck, Corinna S. Schindler, Thomas R. Ward, Yang Yang, X. Peter Zhang 2026 – Lutz Ackermann, Alexander Deiters, Darren J. Dixon, Ang Li, Alexander T. Radosevich, Sophie Rousseaux, Mark E. Thompson, Christopher Uyeda, Alison E. Wendlandt, Michael C. Willis 2025 – Neal K. Devaraj, Keary M. Engle, Masayuki Inoue, Elizabeth R. Jarvo, Shane W. Krska, Nuno Maulide, Patrick J. Walsh, Mary P. Watson, Christina M. Woo, Andrei K. Yudin 2024 – Michelle R. Arkin, Philip E. Dawson, Dennis G. Hall, Ohyun Kwon, Tristan H. Lambert, Thomas Lectka, Mark D. Levin, Song Lin, Armido Studer, Uttam Krishan Tambar 2023 – Thorsten Bach, Suzanne A. Blum, Kevin Burgess, Tianning Diao, Steven P. Nolan, Jennifer Prescher, Javier Read de Alaniz, Hans Renata, Vincent M. Rotello, and Dean J. Tantillo 2022 – Richard G. Finke, Joseph M. Fox, Todd K. Hyster, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Marisa C. Kozlowski, Alison Narayan, David A. Nicewicz, Emma Parmee, Theresa M. Reineke, and Jennifer M. Schomaker 2021 – Igor V. Alabugin, Yimon Aye, Christopher Cramer, Ilan Marek, David A. Nagib, David Sarlah, Peter R. Schreiner, Michinori Suginome, Dirk Trauner, and Helma Wennemers 2020 – Li Deng, Todd L. Lowary, Ruben Martin, Kevin D. Moeller, Hosea M. Nelson, Timothy R. Newhouse, T. V. 'Babu' RajanBabu, John R. Reynolds, Corey Stephenson, and Daniel J. Weix 2019 – Varinder Aggarwal, Alison Butler, Eugene Chen, Cathleen Crudden, Matthew B. Francis, Jeremiah Johnson, Thomas Maimone, Robert McMahon, Masahiro Murakami, and Tehshik Yoon 2018 – Emily P. Balskus, Naoto Chatani, William 'Bill' F. Degrado, Frank Glorius, Robert R. Knowles, Dawei Ma, Heather D. Maynard, James P. Morken, G. K. Surya Prakash, and Keith Woerpel 2017 – Alejandro Briseno, Sherry R. Chemler, Guangbin Dong, P. Andrew Evans, M. G. Finn, Paul J. Hergenrother, Thomas R. Hoye, Kathlyn A. Parker, Mikiko Sodeoka, and Christopher D. Vanderwal 2016 – Takahiko Akiyama, Kristi S. Anseth, Geert-Jan Boons, Luis M. Campos, Seth M. Cohen, Matthew J. Gaunt, Marc M. Greenberg, Thomas Kodadek, Lawrence T. Scott, and David A. Spiegel 2015 – Michelle Chang, Debbie C. Crans, Antonio M. Echavarren, Ben L. Feringa, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Neil K. Garg, Chuan He, Kenichiro Itami, Kenneth M. Nicholas, and Richmond Sarpong 2014 – Richard N. Armstrong, Olafs Daugulis, Abigail G. Doyle, Raymond L. Funk, Seth Herzon, Jeffrey N. Johnston, Gary E. Keck, Benjamin List, Hung-wen 'Ben' Liu, and Tomislav Rovis 2013 – William R. Dichtel, Makoto Fujita, Michael J. Krische, Donald S. Matteson, Bradley S. Moore, Thomas William Muir, Jack R. Norton, Sarah E. Reisman, Martin F. Semmelhack, and Shannon S. Stahl 2012 – Jeffrey Aubé, Squire J. Booker, Timothy F. Jamison, Anna K. Mapp, E. W. Meijer, David I. Schuster, Scott A. Snyder, Yi Tang, Michael R. Wasielewski, and Jin-Quan Yu 2011 – Zhenan Bao, Martin D. Burke, David Crich, Vy M. Dong, Craig J. Hawker, Seth R. Marder, Tobin J. Marks, Keiji Maruoka, Andrew J. Phillips, and Suzanne Walker 2010 – Helen E. Blackwell, Christopher Chang, John A. Gerlt, Arun K. Ghosh, Jeffrey Johnson, Robert A. Moss, Eiichi Nakamura, Matthew S. Sigman, Alice Ting, and Maria Christina White 2009 – Carlos F. Barbas III, Paul J. Chirik, Victor J. Hruby, William D. Jones, Chaitan Khosla, Mohammad Movassaghi, Nicos A. Petasis, John A. Porco, Jr., David H. Sherman, and Erik J. Sorensen 2008 – Jeffrey W. Bode, Cynthia J. Burrows, Dieter Enders, Tamio Hayashi, Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Colin P. Nuckolls, Melanie S. Sanford, Thomas S. Scanlan, Mukund P. Sibi, and Daniel A. Singleton 2007 – Gullermo C. Bazan, André B. Charette, Janis Louie, Leonard R. MacGillivray, David W. C. MacMillan, James A. Marshall, Kenneth J. Shea, David A. Tirrell, James M. Tour, and Yoshinori Yamamoto 2006 – Eric V. Anslyn, Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., Franklin A. Davis, Michael P. Doyle, Shu Kobayashi, Mark Lautens, Lanny S. Liebeskind, Brian M. Stoltz, F. Dean Toste, and Wilfred A. Van der Donk 2005 – Donna G. Blackmond, Weston T. Borden, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Huw M. L. Davies, Rustem F. Ismagilov, Brent L. Iverson, Paul Knochel, Frederick D. Lewis, Steven M. Weinreb, and James D. Wuest 2004 – Justin Du Bois, David R. Liu, Ronald T. Raines, Scott J. Miller, Yian Shi, John L. Wood, Louis S. Hegedus, Richard C. Larock, Gary H. Posner, and Kenneth S. Suslick 2003 – Jean A. Chmielewski, Andrew S. Kende, James L. Leighton, Milan Mrksich, William H. Pearson, Viresh H. Rawal, Peter H. Seeberger, Kietmar Seyferth, Richard B. Silverman, and James D. White 2002 – Alois Fürstner, Carl R. Johnson, Alan R. Katritzky, Madleine M. Joullié, James S. Panek, Matthew D. Shair, Masakatsu Shibasaki, Robert M. Williams, Karen L. Wooley, and Xumu Zhang 2001 – Michael T. Crimmins, Geoffrey W. Coates, Jean M.J. Fréchet, Murray Goodman, Jeffery W. Kelly, John Montgomery, Matthew S. Platz, Nicole S. Sampson, Richard R. Schrock, and Victor A. Snieckus 2000 – John E. Bercaw, David E. Cane, Jonathan A. Ellman, Daniel Herschlag, Eric T. Kool, Albert Padwa, Ned A. Porter, Timothy M. Swager, David L. Van Vranken, and Jeffrey D. Winkler 1999 – Carolyn R. Bertozzi, M. Reza Ghadiri, Andrew D. Hamilton, Kim D. Janda, John A. Katzenellenbogen, Laura L. Kiessling, Peter T. Lansbury, Jr., Daniel H. Rich, Martin Saunders, and J. Fraser Stoddart 1998 – Gregory C. Fu, John F. Hartwig, Amir H. Hoveyda, Gary A. Molander, James S. Nowick, C. Dale Poulter, Scott D. Rychnovsky, Jay S. Siegel, Christopher T. Walsh, and Peter Wipf 1997 – Barry K. Carpenter, Erick M. Carreira, Jon C. Clardy, David B. Collum, Jack D. Dunitz, Philip E. Eaton, Samuel H. Gellman, Daniel S. Kemp, Bruce H. Lipshutz, and Steven C. Zimmerman 1996 – Bruce Ganem, John H. Griffen, Stephen Hanessian, Sidney M. Hecht, Barbara Imperiali, Daniel Kahne, T. Ross Kelly, Stephen F. Martin, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Ryoji Noyori 1995 – Steven G. Boxer, Rick L. Danheiser, Michael E. Jung, Thomas J. Katz, Nelson J. Leonard, Kurt M. Mislow, Alanna Schepartz, Barry B. Snider, Craig A. Townsend, and Robert Waymourth 1994 – Maurice S. Brookhart, Paul Dowd, Christopher S. Foote, Eric N. Jacobsen, Martin E. Newcomb, Iwao Ojima, William R. Roush, Gary B. Schuster, and Edward C. Taylor 1993 – Peter Beak, Peter Chen, Tohru Fukuyama, Alexander M. Klibanov, Robert L. Letsinger, Josef Michl, Andrew G. Myers, JoAnne Stubbe, Chi-Huey Wong, and Fred Wudl 1992 – Jerome A. Berson, Francois N. Diederich, Joseph Dinnocenzo, Dennis A. Dougherty, Donald Hilvert, Paul B. Hopkins, Keith U. Ingold, Richard A. Lerner, Philip D. Magnus, and A. Ian Scott 1991 – Stephen L. Buchwald, Frederick G. Bordwel, William G. Dauben, John T. Groves, Julius Rebek, Jr., Paul von Ragué Schleyer, and Jonathan L. Sessler, Amos B. Smith, III, K. Peter C. Vollhardt, and Howard E. Zimmerman 1990 – Edward M. Arnett, Paul A. Bartlett, Paul A. Grieco, Robert H. Grubbs, Clayton H. Heathcock, William L. Jorgensen, Peter G. Schultz, John K. Stille, Harry Wasserman, and Paul A. Wender 1989 – Norman L. Allinger, Scott E. Denmark, Mary Anne Fox, Jeremy R. Knowles, Jerrold Meinwald, Larry E. Overman, Andrew Streitwieser, Jr., Barry M. Trost, and George M. Whitesides 1988 – Dale L. Boger, Stephen J. Benkovic, Charles P. Casey, Dennis P. Curran, David A. Evans, John A. Gladysz, Kendall N. Houk, Yoshito Kishi, Jay K. Kochi, and W. Clark Still 1987 – Robert G. Bergman, Thomas C. Bruice, Emil T. Kaiser, Satoru Masamune, Albert I. Meyers, K. C. Nicolaou, Leo A. Paquette, and Nicholas J. Turro 1986 – Anthony G. M. Barrett, John I. Brauman, James P. Collman, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Peter B. Dervan, Paul G. Gassman, Henry Rapoport, Stuart L. Schreiber, K. Barry Sharpless, and Kenneth B. Wiberg

See also

List of chemistry awards

References