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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001  
       
   

Chirally catalysed oxidations

  
 
K. Barry Sharpless
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Parallel with the advances in chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions, Barry Sharpless has developed corresponding chiral catalysts for other important reactions, oxidation reactions. He has made several important discoveries, such as for chirally catalysed epoxidation, which utilises titanium in a chiral molecule. Epoxides are useful intermediate products for various types of synthesis, including the production of drugs for reducing blood pressure.

  
     
 
 Contents:
| Introduction | Nature is chiral | What is catalytic asymmetric synthesis? | How does a chiral molecule function? | Chemistry becomes three-dimensional | Pioneering work | General hydrogenations | Chirally catalysed oxidations | Further reading | Credits |
Based on materials from the 2001 Nobel Poster for Chemistry
Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
 
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