Neil Keddie

David has been awarded the Moissan Prize, for recognition of his work in the field of fluorine chemistry. The Moissan Prize is awarded every three years, during the year of the International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC), by the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie.

You can read more about the prize, and the previous winners on the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie website.

Some of our long-standing work studying the effects of CF₂ groups on the conformation of medium rings has just been published in PNAS, in collaboration with Eric Block’s group.  One of the highlights for us, is the identification of the ‘Muskiest Musk’ molecule (shown on the right).  This molecule (structure 34 in the paper) illicted the highest ever response for a musk ketone against the human odorant receptor OR5AN1 using an in vitro assay.

Michael, Qingzhi, Mingyan and Rodrigo were all involved in aspects of this work, which you can read more about in PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1713026115