Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."
• Dr. MacMillan is a professor at Princeton University in the U.S., while Dr. List is a director at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
• Organocatalysts allow several steps in a production process to be performed in an unbroken sequence, considerably reducing waste in chemical manufacturing
• This work requires catalysts, which are substances that control and accelerate chemical reactions, without becoming part of the final product.
• Their tool can be used to control and accelerate chemical reactions, exerting a big impact on drugs research.