Organismos Internacionales

Premio Nobel de Química a dos científicos por crear una herramienta para construir moléculas

Alemán Benjamin List y David MacMillan recibieron el prestigioso galardón por haber desarrollado la catálisis asimétrica

(Bottom L-R) Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, Goran K Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Peter Somfai address a press conference to announce the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (On display L-R) Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2021. - Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States on October 6, 2021 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction, the jury said. The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
(Bottom L-R) Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, Goran K Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Peter Somfai address a press conference to announce the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (On display L-R) Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2021. - Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States on October 6, 2021 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction, the jury said. The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) JONATHAN NACKSTRAND
Los miembros del Comité anuncian el Premio Nobel de Química 2021 para Benjamin List, de Alemania, y David MacMillan, de Estados Unidos. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP)

Estocolmo. El Premio Nobel de Química fue atribuido este miércoles al alemán Benjamin List y al escocés instalado en Estados Unidos David MacMillan por haber desarrollado una nueva herramienta de construcción de moléculas que ha vuelto más “limpia” la química y ha mejorado la investigación farmacéutica.

Los dos científicos, ambos de 53 años, recibieron el prestigioso galardón por haber desarrollado en el 2000 la catálisis asimétrica (o organocatálisis), un nuevo tipo de catalizadores revolucionario que ha avanzado “a una velocidad prodigiosa” desde entonces, explicó el jurado del Nobel.

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