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Nobel Prize: How click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry are transforming the pharmaceutical and material industries

  • Written by Heyang (Peter) Zhang, PhD Candidate in Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Nobel Prize: How click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry are transforming the pharmaceutical and material industriesClick chemistry joins molecules together by reacting an azide with a cyclooctyne.Boris Zhitkov/Moment via Getty Images

The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for their development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

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