Chemistry Nobel Prize Honors Technique for Building Molecules
Benjamin List and David MacMillan received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of asymmetrical organocatalysis. The post Chemistry Nobel Prize Honors Technique for Building Molecules first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Chemists are constantly tasked not just with designing useful new molecules — for novel drugs, energy-storing materials and countless other jobs — but with designing better ways to make those molecules. One big hurdle is that desirable chemical reactions are often slow or inefficient and can only become practical with the addition of catalysts, substances that can accelerate reaction rates without...
Originally published in Quanta Abstractions.
