{"id":139707,"date":"2021-10-07T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139707"},"modified":"2021-10-07T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:07:07","slug":"nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u00a02021 has been\u00a0awarded to German scientist Benjamin List and\u00a0Scotland-born scientist David WC MacMillan \u201cfor the\u00a0development of asymmetric\u00a0organocatalysis.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is asymmetric\u00a0organocatalysis?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catalysts are substances that\u00a0<\/span>control and accelerate chemical reactions<\/span><\/b>, without becoming part of the final product.\u00a0<\/span>For example<\/span><\/b>, catalysts in cars transform toxic substances in exhaust fumes into harmless molecules.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our bodies also contain thousands of catalysts<\/span><\/b>\u00a0in the form of enzymes, which chisel out the molecules necessary for life.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past, it was believed that there are just <\/span>two types of catalysts<\/span><\/b>\u00a0available:\u00a0<\/span>metals and enzymes<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0Now, there is a third type of catalyst i.e.,\u00a0<\/span>asymmetric\u00a0organocatalysis<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These new catalysts are thus\u00a0<\/span>fundamental tools for chemists<\/span><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0many research areas and industries are dependent on chemists\u2019 ability to construct molecules.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A new generation of small-molecule catalysts is <\/span>more friendly for the environment and cheaper to produce<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: This post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cDuo\u00a0win Chemistry Nobel for developing tool to build molecules\u201d published in Times of India on 07 October 2021.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news?\u00a0 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u00a02021 has been\u00a0awarded to German scientist Benjamin List and\u00a0Scotland-born scientist David WC MacMillan \u201cfor the\u00a0development of asymmetric\u00a0organocatalysis.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 What is asymmetric\u00a0organocatalysis?\u00a0 Catalysts are substances that\u00a0control and accelerate chemical reactions, without becoming part of the final product.\u00a0For example, catalysts in cars transform toxic substances in exhaust fumes into harmless molecules.\u00a0… Continue reading Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700581963},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}