Barry Sharpless, who introduced, in the early 2000s, this concept allowing to quickly synthesize products, became the fifth person to win a second Nobel.
Le Monde With AFP and Reuters
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and Danish Morten Meldal “for the development of ‘click chemistry’ and bioorthogonal chemistry”, announced Wednesday, October 5, the Royle Academy Sciences. “Click” chemistry allows you to “clip” molecules between them as you assemble a press button.
The American Barry Sharpless, who introduced, in the early 2000s, this concept allowing to quickly synthesize products, became the fifth person to win a second Nobel.
Last year, the award awarded by the Swedish Academy had been awarded to the German Benjamin List and the British David Macmillan for having developed a new tool for building molecules, “asymmetrical organocatalysis”.
The previous year, in 2020, two women, the Frenchman Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American Jennifer Doudna, had been distinguished for the “molecular scissors”.