Chemist no. 219 of 350 · Organic

David MacMillan

1968-United StatesNobel Chemistry 2021

Asymmetric organocatalysis

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Iminium Catalysis: How David MacMillan Built a Metal-Free Way to Make Chiral Molecules

How David MacMillan's imidazolidinone catalysts enabled asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions via iminium activation, plus SOMO and photoredox catalysis.

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Biography

David MacMillan: From a Scottish Working-Class Family to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Life of David MacMillan, Scottish-born 2021 Chemistry Nobel laureate: early life in Bellshill, Glasgow and Caltech training, Princeton career and lessons.

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