Nobel Prize season continues and on Wednesday the Nobel Assembly announced they awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Benjamin List and David MacMillan "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener."
List is professor at and director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, while MacMillan is the James McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. They worked independently of each other but share the prize. Their discoveries "initiated a totally new way of thinking for how to put together chemical molecules...This new toolbox is used widely today, for example in drug discovery, and in fine chemicals production and is already benefiting humankind greatly," said Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, a member of the chemistry Nobel committee.
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