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This was announced in Stockholm by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”
I’m Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced today by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Sharpless gets the award for the second time, after the victory in 2001 (Here our in-depth analysis). The Americans Bertozzi and Sharpless and the Danish Meldal equally divide the Nobel Prize for having paved the way for the so-called “snap chemistry”, inaugurated about 20 years ago by Sharpless and which consists in the possibility of joining molecules more efficiently and at the same time easier. A technique that, thanks to Bertozzi, has also been applied to biological molecules. There are many applications, including those related to green chemistry and high-precision cancer therapies.
The other awards 2022
On Monday, the Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo was awarded the one for medicine thanks to “his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution”. While yesterday the Nobel Prize in Physics went to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work in quantum mechanics. “Their research opens the door to a new world,” said the members of the Academy, while the motivation cites “the experiments with photon weaving that establish the violation of Bell’s theorem of inequalities and pave the way for the science of ‘quantum information’.
The winners of 2021
In 2021 the Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to the German Benjamin List and the Scotsman David MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. A technique that allows molecules to be combined together to obtain new ones, preventing contamination from occurring during the reaction. Another important relapse lies in the fact that the technique is environmentally friendly, functional to the so-called green chemistry.
