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Morten Meldal
Co-developing copper-catalysed click chemistry, a reliable way to join molecular building blocks.
Solid-phase methods · Copper-catalysed cycloaddition
- Born
- 16 January 1954
- Birthplace
- Denmark
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Morten Meldal
Morten Meldal is a Danish chemist who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless. His work made an important molecular linking reaction useful across chemical research.
Early life
Danish education
Studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.
Doctoral work
Researched carbohydrate chemistry before moving into peptide synthesis.
Career
- 1980s
Research training
Completed his doctorate and pursued postdoctoral research.
- 1990s
Carlsberg Laboratory
Developed methods for peptide and combinatorial chemistry.
- 2002
Click reaction
Reported copper-catalysed joining of azides and alkynes.
- 2022
Nobel Prize
Shared the chemistry award.
Contributions
Solid-phase methods
Developed tools for building and studying peptides.
Copper-catalysed cycloaddition
A dependable reaction linking two types of molecular group.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Recognition for click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
Beyond research
Music
Plays guitar as a way to unwind and prepare his mind for new ideas.
Art
Has maintained a long friendship and creative exchange with painter Henrik Schutze.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: Archivo Fotográfico Universidad de Navarra. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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