Researchers took click chemistry to the next level and began using it on living organisms.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and C. Barry Sharpless. The high award was given to them “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. It is reported press office Nobel Committee.
“Caroline Bertozzi took click chemistry to the next level and began using it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions proceed without disturbing the normal chemistry of the cell. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal laid the foundation for in a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry, where molecular building blocks are quickly and efficiently connected to each other,” the statement said.
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