Previous Award Winners

2020-2021 (awarded 2022 at VOA-7):
    “Measurement of Raman Optical Activity with High-Frequency Polarization Modulation”
    Carin R. Lightner, Daniel Gisler, Stefan A. Meyer, Hannah Niese, Robert C. Keitel, and David J. Norris
    J. Phys. Chem A 2021, 125, 8132-8139
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06132

2018-2019 (awarded 2022 at VOA-7):
    “Transfer and Amplification of Chirality Within the “Ring of Fire” Observed in Resonance Raman Optical Activity Experiments”
    Guojie Li , Jiří Kessler, Joseph Cheramy,  Tao Wu, Mohammad Reza Poopari, Petr Bouř, Yunjie Xu
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 16495-16498
    https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201909603

2016-2017 (awarded 2018 at VOA-6):
    “Effective Fully Polarizable QM/MM Approach To Model Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectra of Systems in Aqueous Solution”
    Tommaso Giovannini, Marta Olszowka, Chiara Cappelli
    J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2016, 12, 5483-5492
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00768

2014-2015 (awarded 2016 at VOA-5):   
    “A novel Raman optical activity instrument operating in the deep ultraviolet spectral region”
    Josef Kapitán, Laurence D. Barron, Lutz Hecht
    J. Raman Spectrosc. 2015, 46, 392-399
    https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.4665