Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov Wins 2016 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship

The ACS Divisions of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallics are proud to announce Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov as the winner of the 2016 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship.

Prof. Dr. Valentine P. Ananikov is a Professor and Laboratory Head of the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. Educational activities include the leading of the MegaGrant research laboratory at St. Petersburg State University (from 2013) and teaching as a Professor of at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University (from 2012). His research interests are focused on catalysis, organic synthesis, molecular complexity and transformations.

Dr Ananikov will be presented with an award at a symposium in his honor at the fall ACS National Meeting, August 21, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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