Chemistry International
Vol. 21, No.3, May 1999

1999, Vol. 21
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Vol. 21, No. 3
May 1999

Awards

Erwin Buncel Wins Canadian Society for Chemistry Lemieux Award

Professor Erwin Buncel, FCIC, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and since 1993 Canadian representative on the IUPAC-CHEMRAWN (Chemical Research Applied to World Needs) Committee, has won the Canadian Society for Chemistry's prestigious R. U. Lemieux Award for organic chemistry. He was honored for his studies of the alpha effect and solvent effects, extension of the investigation of carbanion structure and reactivity to group 14 anions, exploitation of anionic sigma complexes as biochemical and biophysical probes, and research with aromatic dye molecules.

Born in Czechoslovakia and educated in England, Professor Buncel performed postdoctoral research in the United States and Canada, worked briefly for industry, and has spent virtually his entire career since then at Queen's University, except for numerous visiting professorships in different countries. He has written or coauthored more than 250 research articles, 20 reviews and chapters, and 2 books; and he has edited or coedited 15 books and symposia. More than 50 graduate students have earned degrees by working with him, and he has collaborated with scientists in over a dozen countries.

Dr. Buncel received the 1985 Syntex Award in physical organic chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), and a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry was dedicated in his honor in 1998. He served as physical organic chemistry editor for that journal from 1981 to 1993, and he currently edits manuscripts for the Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals.

In recent years, Professor Buncel has become increasingly involved in international scientific activities via participation in the International Isotope Society as trustee, conference chair, editor, and Canadian Chapter President, and through activities on IUPAC Working Committees, especially in work directed at developing countries.

 

 

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