MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group
MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award
The MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award awarded to individuals (and their research groups) or to teams of collaborating principal investigators (and their research groups) for exceptional research contributions to macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in the broadest sense, for exceptional service to the macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry community. It is open to nominations from any country.
The 2025 Supramolecular Award will be presented to Prof. Dr. Job Boekhoven, from the TU Munich, at the 2025 MASC annual meeting, held at the Open University on the 15th & 16th December, 2025. It is awarded “for pioneering and popularizing chemically fueled supramolecular chemistry, including the carbodiimide cycle, enabling transformative advances in self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry and materials”.
Cell Press generously sponsors the Supramolecular Chemistry Award, providing £2000 prize money.
Past winners:
Initially awarded as the “RSC Supramolecular Chemistry Award”, the Supramolecular Award it was adopted by MASC following the RSC’s review of its prizes in 2020.
- 2024 Prof Jonathan Nitschke (Cambridge)
- 2022 Prof Kate Jolliffe (University of Sydney)
- 2022 Prof. Jonathan Sessler (University of Texas at Austin)
- 2020 Prof. Christopher A. Hunter (Cambridge)
- 2018 Prof. Sijbren Otto (Grogingen)
- 2016 Prof. Michael D. Ward (Sheffield)
- 2014 Prof. Philip A. Gale (Southampton)
- 2012 Prof. Jerry L. Atwood (Missouri)
- 2010 Prof. Neil Champness (Nottingham)
- 2005 Prof. Harry L. Anderson (Oxford)
- 2003 Prof. David A. Leigh (Edinburgh)
- 2001 Prof. David Parker (Durham)
Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Group 