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So-called aliphatic hydrocarbons play a major role in the chemical industry, but are not easy to handle from a scientific point of view. These special molecules form precursors of desired substanc ...

Benjamin List's groundbreaking research defied the field and created sustainable, safer catalysts.

<p>Germany’s most important research funding prize goes to three female researchers and seven male researchers / €2.5 million in prize money each / Award ceremony to take place in Berlin on 13 March 2024</p>

The researcher designed a new method to make safer drugs and more sustainable chemicals and proteins

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners such as Marie Curie and Otto Hahn. Here is a full list.

Menthol and cannabinoids are important for the chemical industry. A team led by Prof. Benjamin List has now found a new way to synthesize both substances - cheaper and more efficient than before. ...

Scientists of the department of Homogeneous Catalysis have found a new elegant way to make use of photoredox catalysis. Researchers of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung have expanded th ...

Renowned Princeton University professor and entrepreneur David W.C. MacMillan, who shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on catalysis, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang for a conversation at the first Presidential Lecture Series event of 2023 on Feb. 13.

JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for their work in making molecules "click." Two Americans, K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, and Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University in California, and one Dane -- Morten Meldal at the University of Copenhagen -- received the prize. Sharpless and Meldal -- independent of each other -- "laid the foundations of click chemistry," a f...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 5: The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced on Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year the prize was awarded to scientists Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that the Nobel panel said is “already benefiting humankind greatly.” A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving t...