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Molecular Innovators Win 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize

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Molecular Innovators Win 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and biorthogonal chemistry. Click chemistry revolutionized the options available to chemists for creating the molecules they desired. Bioorthogonal chemistry made it possible to monitor the chemical processes going on inside living cells without harming them.

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