2023-12-08 16:42:38
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SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – The researcher designed a new method to create safer medicines and more sustainable chemicals.
Daniel Mediavilla (El Pais)
On the day of the enantiomers lesson, David MacMillan (Bellshill, UK, 55) was not in class. He was watching the Scotland-Cyprus football match. His professor at the University of Glasgow did not fail to remind him how important enantiomers are. ” I did not know “, says David MacMillan, who admits to being a die-hard football fan. In 2021, he, who is now a professor at Princeton University (United States), received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, an ingenious and selective way of constructing this type of molecules, identical, but symmetrical, as if reflected in a mirror.
Until a little over 20 years ago, in the production of medicines or chemicals for industry, to accelerate chemical reactions, metals or enzymes were used as catalysts, proteins such as those which ensure our digestion…
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