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This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry turned around and embraced German chemist Benjamin Liszt and American Scottish chemist David W.C. Macmillan, with a total prize of 6.5438+million Swedish kronor (about 7.32 million yuan).
The reason why they are favored by the goddess of luck is that their research on "asymmetric organic catalysis" has had a far-reaching impact in the scientific community.
The last time organic catalysis won the Nobel Prize in chemistry was in 200 1 year. Winning the Nobel Prize again after a lapse of 20 years undoubtedly excites researchers who study organic chemistry, especially organic catalysis.
Two scientists who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry are both founders of organic catalytic asymmetric synthesis. In 2000, they independently developed asymmetric organic catalysis.
Liszt was born in 1968. 1993 graduated from the Free University of Berlin and entered the University of Frankfurt to pursue a doctorate. After that, he entered the Scripps Institute in the United States to do postdoctoral research and stayed as an assistant professor.
Since 2003, Liszt has joined Max? Planck coal research institute, promoted to professor two years later. Mainly engaged in organic catalysis and synthesis. At present, he has published more than 200 SCI papers and is an academic leader.
Macmillan and Liszt were born in the same year and are 53 years old. He studied and taught chemistry at Glasgow University, University of California, Harvard University and Princeton University.
The ability of chemists to construct molecules often determines the development of many research fields and industries. It is essential to make molecules with catalysts, which can control and accelerate chemical reactions.
For example, catalysts in automobiles can convert toxic substances in exhaust gas into harmless molecules. There are many catalysts in the human body in the form of enzymes, which make the molecules needed for life.
As a basic tool for chemists, researchers have long believed that only two types of catalysts can be used. One is a metal and the other is an enzyme.
But Liszt and Macmillan developed a new ingenious molecular construction tool: asymmetric organic catalysis.
Liszt tested an amino acid called proline as a catalyst to see if it could catalyze chemical reactions, and the result was obviously unexpectedly good.
Macmillan hopes to use simple organic molecules to develop more durable catalysts, because metal catalysts are easily destroyed by water. One of them performed well in asymmetric catalysis.
Johan Aaqvist, chairman of the nobel chemistry Committee? Qvist) means:
The asymmetric organic catalysts they studied are cheap and environmentally friendly, pushing the molecular structure to a new height.
Thanks to organic catalysts, chemistry is more "green" and it is easier to produce asymmetric molecules. Especially in the field of producing new drugs and solar cells, organic catalysts are exerting their greatest benefits.
Roger kornberg, a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, said that chemistry is the queen of all sciences.
Our daily life benefits from the research results of chemistry everywhere. Only chemical terms often appear unfathomable and have a strong sense of distance.
1907, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Edward Buchner in recognition of his work in biochemical research and the discovery of cell-free fermentation.
It seems obscure, but in fact, his research results support our basic production and life such as sugar making and wine making.
Fritz Haber, a German, won the 19 18 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on single substance ammonia synthesis.
This sounds equally difficult to understand, but his research has brought chemical fertilizers into thousands of households and greatly accelerated the development of world agriculture.
Another example is German scientists Dills and Alder who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from 65438 to 0950. They "discovered and developed the method of synthesizing dienes".
This method has been widely used in industrial production. Insecticide, lubricating oil, synthetic rubber, plastic, etc. Are inseparable from this discovery.
At this time, the mobile phone, tablet computer, notebook computer and lithium-ion battery in your body are also the results of chemical research awarded by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 20 19.
It is estimated that 35% of global GDP involves chemical catalysis to some extent.
Asymmetric organic catalysis, which won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, has not been widely used in industrial production at present, but it points out such a development direction: simple, cheap, environmentally friendly and efficient.