Héctor Busto Sancirián

Héctor Busto Sancirián

Héctor Busto Sancirián
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Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and member of the Biological Chemistry research group at the University of La Rioja.

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Reactions to Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless for click chemistry and its use in living organisms

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 has been awarded to Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal for laying the foundations of click chemistry, which quickly and efficiently joins molecular building blocks; and to Carolyn Bertozzi, who pioneered bioorthogonal reactions, which use this technique inside living organisms without altering the chemistry of the cell.

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