Nobel Lecture in Chemistry: Molecular Click Games: A Leap from Shoulders of Giants
- Date
- 23 January 2023, 10:15–11:30
- Location
- Uppsala Biomedical Centre, Lecture room B8
- Type
- Seminar
- Lecturer
- Morten Meldal, 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Web page
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/meldal/facts/
- Organiser
- Uppsala University
- Contact person
- Annika Windahl Pontén
- Phone
- +46 701679506
Welcome to a lecture by the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry - Morten Meldal. Meldal has been awarded the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work with what is known as click chemistry - when a chemical reaction makes it possible to "snap" molecules together in simple ways. The method is an extraordinarily useful tool, particularly in pharmaceutical research.
The lecture will be held in English. Free entry and no prior registration.
Chemists strive to build increasingly complicated molecules. For a long time, this has been very time consuming and expensive. Click chemistry means that molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. In 2002, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless, independently of each other, developed an elegant and efficient chemical reaction: the copper catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. This is now in widespread use and is utilised in the development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and creating new materials.