RWTH Professor Dieter Enders has now received the Robert Robinson Award 2010 in recognition of his many landmark contributions to the development and practice of modern asymmetric organic synthesis.

The prize is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Europe's largest organisation for advancing the chemical sciences.
Dieter Enders has been working at RWTH Aachen University since 1985; currently, he is the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the Institute for Organic Chemistry (IOC).

Enders is considered a pioneer and leading expert in asymmetric synthesis. His current research interests include new synthetic methods using organometallics, asymmetric catalysis with nucleophilic carbenes, and organocatalysis. Enders has published over 480 research papers.
His awards and honours include the Leibniz Award (DFG, German Research Foundation 1993), the Yamada Prize (Japan, 1995), the Max-Planck Research Award (2000), the Emil Fischer Medal (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 2002), and the Arthur C. Scope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society (2008).

In 2007 he was elected a member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences; since 2008, he is a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation, DFG.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Enders
Chair of Organic Chemistry I
at RWTH Aachen University