Nobel Prize lecture: Benjamin List, Nobel Prize in chemistry 2021

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Nobel Prize lecture: Benjamin List, Nobel Prize in chemistry 2021

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Benjamin List delivers his Nobel Prize lecture "Asymmetric organocatalysis" on Wednesday 8 December 2021. He was introduced by Professor Peter Somfai.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.

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@tinayetsinakwadi8906 2 жыл бұрын

Mark my words, one day I will win this thing. Getting my masters right now

@alessandromeloni99 2 жыл бұрын

Go get it!

@shayandey6955 2 жыл бұрын

What is your specializations?

@paulwanek7511 2 жыл бұрын

I will watch you ;))

@paulwanek7511 2 жыл бұрын

and of course, you need the right mentorship

@poatatoecouch7 2 жыл бұрын

lets gooo!!!

@johnsnow5264 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful work and wonderful story. Such an important contribution to the planet and humanity.

@spacetraveIIer 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Professor. High-quality lecture. Wonderful opportunity to learn from you

@EngineeringExpressM 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Benjamin🇧🇩❣️

@thayhuongchuyenhoalekhietq6803 7 ай бұрын

Great achievement! Thanks a lot.

@marklo6283 2 жыл бұрын

Great lecture, might wanna pursue research in organocatalysis

@bukurie6861 7 ай бұрын

Thank you to hear great lecture❤Congratulation😍🌍

@tullyfisher Жыл бұрын

Great lecture Prof. List. Did not understand everything in detail but most of it, I guess. - Congratulations!

@ema-vp9mr 2 жыл бұрын

Some day...

@rajakarthishwaran735 2 жыл бұрын

Asymmetric organo catalysis

@pavankalyan-zi6ei 2 жыл бұрын

Could someone summarize this for me?

@buggiemara4902 2 жыл бұрын

"Thank you for the award. I worked so hard for this."

@arbindas 2 жыл бұрын

A catalyst helps a reaction to be completed with less energy and time. There are various kinds of catalyst that involve in our life and surrounding e.g. from plastic to medicine to every living systems etc. Mainly two types of catalyst viz metal catalyst and enzymes, are known to us till 1999. Metal catalysts are made of various metal or metal complexes. These are some time expensive, toxic, and not environment friendly. Enzymes are complex organic molecules present in every living system, e. g. Lypase enzyme helps us to digest milk or milk products. The third kind of catalyst is Organo catalyst, discovered by Devid MacMillan and Benjamin List at the same time. Here small organic molecules, like proline, acts as an asymmetric catalysts. Advantage of Organocatalysis are, cheaper, non toxic, environment friendly etc. Prof List also developed ACDC types of catalysis where counter ion direct the asymmetric outcome. Not only that, he developed various organic molecules that are more acidic than common mineral acid and used them in, Bornsted acid catalysis reaction. Basically Prof List's works started focusing on enamine pathway whereas Prof MacMillan's initited iminium ion pathway.Organocatalysis term was coined by Prof Devid MacMillan in 2000. Thank you

@paulwanek7511 2 жыл бұрын

Catalysts are extremely important for chemical reactions because they lower the overall energy input to make the reaction happen, without being used up. Think about all the ways we can use it to produce energy, produce molecules, harvest energy from the sun, etc. The findings of Ben List and others contribute a lot to the understanding of these catalysts especially when it comes to catalyzing a special form of a molecule much much more than another form of the same molecule (enantiomers, left hand - right hand...). Thalidomide was a potent drug produced with both forms and given to pregnant women. One form was okay, the other form caused drastic effects on the embryo/fetus resulting in shortening of the limbs and other effects. If you by then could have eliminated the production of the "bad" enantiomer, none of this would have happened. By giving chemists a powerful tool to steer the outcome of a reaction in terms of enantiomers and providing an overall better outcome of such synthesis reactions the findings of Ben List et al. lift catalysis reactions to a new level. I hope this makes it clearer for you.

@paulwanek7511 2 жыл бұрын

@@arbindas very well explained! Unfortunately, I posted my comment before getting aware of your comment which is much more profound. I hope that both comments somehow are complementary ;)