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‘Click Chemistry’ Earns Researchers the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Research leads to development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and creating materials that are more fit for purpose.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi for their research into “click” chemistry. Sharpless and Meldal laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilizing it in living organisms. Chemists have long been driven by...

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