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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001  
       
   

Further reading

  
 

Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001, www.nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2001/public.html

The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999

Classics in Total Synthesis, K.C. Nicolaou and E.J. Sorensen, VCH, Weinheim, 1996

Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, R. Noyori, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NY, 1994

Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, E.L. Eliel and S.H. Wilen, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NY, 1994

 


 

  
     
 
 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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