Benjamin List, David WC MacMillan get Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis." List and MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research and has made chemistry greener. Also Read | American scientists David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian win 2021 Nobel Prize Benjamin List was born in 1968 in Frankfurt, Germany. He has done his Ph.D. in 1997 from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He has also served as Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Also Read | Nobel Prize 2021 for physics awarded to three scientists David W.C. MacMillan, who was born in 1968 in Bellshill, UK, did his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has also been a Professor at Princeton University, USA. They have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 because in 2000 they, independent of each other, developed a third type of catalysis. It is called asymmetric organocatalysis and builds upon small organic molecules. “This concept for catalysis is as simple as it is ingenious, and the fact is that many people have wondered why we didn’t think of it earlier,” says Johan Åqvist, who is chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

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