BASF Chemist Recipient Of 2008 Siegfried Medal
8 July 2008 The renowned Siegfried Medal — awarded every other year by Siegfried Ltd. of Zofingen, Switzerland, in cooperation with the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zurich – has been awarded to BASF scientist Dr. Klaus Ditrich.
Ditrich, who works in BASF’s biocatalysis research, is to receive the “Siegfried Medal for trendsetting work in process chemistry” from the international jury, which is co-chaired by Professor Jay Siegel, University of Zurich, and Dr. Hans-Rudolf Marti, Siegfried Ltd., comprises industry and academia representatives from Europe, the USA and Asia, among them Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Ryoji Noyori from Japan. The prize, with a value of 10,000 Swiss francs, will be awarded at the Siegfried Symposium in Zurich on September 4, 2008.
The award recognizes the achievements of Ditrich’s research team in the development of technically practicable production processes for chiral molecules, which play a vital role in today’s production of pharmaceuticals and crop protectants. Chiral intermediates, marketed by BASF under the ChiPros® brand, are used as key building blocks in synthesizing active ingredients for crop protection products and pharmaceuticals.
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