Nobel Prize For Chemistry Shared By Japanese, U.S. Researchers
October 7th, 2010 - 8:20 pm ICT by GDBy Gina Gomez
An American scientist and two Japanese researchers, who developed the techniques to bind carbon atoms, are the proud recipient on this year’s Noble Prize in the field of chemistry. Richard F. Heck of the United States and Japanese scientists Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were declared as the winner of the Noble Prize in chemistry for their illustrious work of inventing tools to synthesize complex carbon-based molecules.
In a statement that was released by the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, it was revealed that the Noble Prize for chemistry would be shared this year by the three imminent scientists for their work on the ‘palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.’ The 2010 Nobel Prize award in chemistry is the fifth time since the year 1912 that the honor has been conferred in the field of carbon-based chemistry with the committee itself pointing out that the carbon-carbon linkages are the ‘ basis of the chemistry of life.’
In the research that was carried out by the three Noble laureates, the element palladium played the role of a catalyst to start a chemical reaction with the carbon and the names of the reaction was later coined as the Heck reaction, the Negishi reaction and the Suzuki reaction. The molecules that can be created with the help of the techniques devised by the trio are so complex in character that not only can it be implemented in the drug industry to make medicines but it can also be used in the electronics industry to make thin monitors.
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