Organic chemistry has developed into an art form
where scientists produce marvelous chemical creations
in their test tubes. Mankind benefits from this in
the form of medicines, ever-more precise electronics
and advanced technological materials. The Nobel
Prize in Chemistry 2010 awards one of the most
sophisticated tools available to chemists today.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for the
development of palladium-catalyzed cross coupling. This
chemical tool has vastly improved the possibilities for
chemists to create sophisticated chemicals, for example
carbon-based molecules as complex as those created by
nature itself.
Carbon-based (organic) chemistry is the basis of life and
is responsible for numerous fascinating natural phenomena:
colour in flowers, snake poison and bacteria killing
substances such as penicillin. Organic chemistry has allowed
man to build on nature’s chemistry; making use of
carbon’s ability to provide a stable skeleton for functional
molecules. This has given mankind new medicines and
revolutionary materials such as plastics.
In order to create these complex chemicals, chemists
need to be able to join carbon atoms together. However,
carbon is stable and carbon atoms do not easily react with
one another. The first methods used by chemists to bind
carbon atoms together were therefore based upon various
techniques for rendering carbon more reactive. Such methods
worked when creating simple molecules, but when
synthesizing more complex molecules chemists ended up
with too many unwanted by-products in their test tubes.
Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling solved that problem
and provided chemists with a more precise and efficient
tool to work with. In the Heck reaction, Negishi reaction
and Suzuki reaction, carbon atoms meet on a palladium
atom, whereupon their proximity to one another kickstarts
the chemical reaction.
Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling is used in research
worldwide, as well as in the commercial production of
for example pharmaceuticals and molecules used in the
electronics industry
Organic chemistry has developed into an art formwhere scientists produce marvelous chemical creationsin their test tubes. Mankind benefits from this inthe form of medicines, ever-more precise electronicsand advanced technological materials. The NobelPrize in Chemistry 2010 awards one of the mostsophisticated tools available to chemists today.This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded toRichard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for thedevelopment of palladium-catalyzed cross coupling. Thischemical tool has vastly improved the possibilities forchemists to create sophisticated chemicals, for examplecarbon-based molecules as complex as those created bynature itself.Carbon-based (organic) chemistry is the basis of life andis responsible for numerous fascinating natural phenomena:colour in flowers, snake poison and bacteria killingsubstances such as penicillin. Organic chemistry has allowedman to build on nature’s chemistry; making use ofcarbon’s ability to provide a stable skeleton for functionalmolecules. This has given mankind new medicines andrevolutionary materials such as plastics.In order to create these complex chemicals, chemistsneed to be able to join carbon atoms together. However,carbon is stable and carbon atoms do not easily react withone another. The first methods used by chemists to bindcarbon atoms together were therefore based upon varioustechniques for rendering carbon more reactive. Such methodsworked when creating simple molecules, but whensynthesizing more complex molecules chemists ended upwith too many unwanted by-products in their test tubes.Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling solved that problemand provided chemists with a more precise and efficienttool to work with. In the Heck reaction, Negishi reactionand Suzuki reaction, carbon atoms meet on a palladiumatom, whereupon their proximity to one another kickstartsthe chemical reaction.Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling is used in researchworldwide, as well as in the commercial production offor example pharmaceuticals and molecules used in theelectronics industry
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