Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2025

Helvetica, represented by its editors in chief, Prof. Eva Hevia and Prof. Jérôme Waser, as well als Helvetica Executive Editor Dr. Richard Smith, will award the Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society for the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs 2024/25 in Helvetica Chimica Acta. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner-up.

Dr. Richard Smith, Executive Editor of Helvetica, will hand over the certificates to the winners on September 4, 2025, at 17.45h in the afternoon plenary session. The winners will present their research in a flash talk of 3min each.

1st Price 2025: Rahul Giri, University of Bern, Group of Prof. Dmitry Katayev
«Divergent Synthesis of Trifluoromethyl Ketones via Photoredox Activation of Halotrifluoroacetones»
https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202400125

2nd Price 2025: Alain Baiyoumy, University of Basel, Group of Prof. Thomas R. Ward
«The Two Janus Faces of CpRu-Based Deallylation Catalysts and Their Application for in Cellulo Prodrug Uncaging»
https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202400053

We congratulate the winners and are looking forward to the ceremony on September 4. We hope this motivates many of our members to hand in their next manuscript to Helvetica, a journal of the SCS.

The SCS Helvetica Prize
Since 2019, Helvetica Chimica Acta awards the 'Helvetica Prize' on the occasion of the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society to honor outstanding publications of young researchers in Switzerland. The prize is addressed to the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs in Helvetica. The award winners present their work in a short talk at the Fall Meeting. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner up.

Past Winners of the Prize
Winners of the prize 2024

Winners of the prize 2023
Winners of the prize 2022
Winners of the prize 2021
Winners of the prize 2020
Winners of the prize 2019