Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Nobel Prize goes to click chemists who discovered how to snap molecules together ‘like Lego’

By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN

Updated 8:05 AM EDT, Wed October 5, 2022

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/europe/nobel-prize-chemistry-winner-2022-scn-intl/index.html

Meldal, Sharpless and Bertozzi (left to right) shared the prize.

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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded [被授予] Wednesday for work that led to “an ingenious tool for building molecules.”[构建分子的巧妙工具]

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless became Nobel laureates [获奖者] for founding and advancing the fields of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, which has “led to a revolution in how [如何变革] chemists think about linking molecules together,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Click chemistry enables [使可能] fast and straightforward [直截了当的] reactions, where “molecular building blocks snap together quickly,” the committee said. The principle can bring real-world benefits [ 带来现实利益] in the development of pharmaceuticals and medicine, including more targeted [更有针对性 ] cancer treatments.

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