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Winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced

Winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced

Ferdinand| EducationGhanaOctober 7| Winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Carolyn Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms.

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Chemists have long been driven by the desire to build increasingly complicated molecules. In pharmaceutical research, this has often involved artificially recreating natural molecules with medicinal properties. This has led to many admirable molecular constructions, but these are generally time-consuming and very expensive to produce.

Barry Sharpless – who is now being awarded his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry – started the ball rolling. Around the year 2000, he coined the concept of click chemistry, which is a form of simple and reliable chemistry, where reactions occur quickly and unwanted by-products are avoided.

Shortly afterwards, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless – independently of each other – presented what is now the crown jewel of click chemistry: the copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. This elegant and efficient chemical reaction is now in widespread use. Among many other uses, it is utilised in the development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and for creating materials that are more fit for purpose.

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Carolyn Bertozzi took click chemistry to a new level. To map important but elusive biomolecules on the surface of cells – glycans – she developed click reactions that work inside living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.

These reactions are now used globally to explore cells and track biological processes. Using bioorthogonal responses, researchers have improved the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals, which are now being tested in clinical trials.

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Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions have taken chemistry into the era of functionalism. This is bringing the most significant benefit to humankind.

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