3 Professors Share Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday was Awarded Thurs Three Professors for a Tool To Make Carbon-Carbon Bonds in Organic Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Announced.

The Professors are Richard Heck of the University of Delaware, no-Ichi Negishi of Purdue University and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University.

The tool devised the Professors is called the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling.

"This chemical tool has vastly Improved The Possibilities for Chemists to Create sophisticated chemicals, for example Carbon-Based Molecules as complex as Those created by nature Itself," the Committee said.

Negishi Told reporters by phone from the United States That they was asleep "when they heard the news an hour EARLIER. They said winning the prize was a dream of his, But They Did not Know Whether They Would win.

"May I have accomplished roughly half of my goal," they said of winning the Nobel, "and I would definitely like to keep the Working for Several More Years."

The tool has applications in a wide range of fields, from agriculture and pharmaceuticals Thurs coatings for electronic components, like chips, the Nobel Committee said.

"The key word here is versatility," Negishi said. "One of our dreams is To Be Able Thurs synthesize Any Organic Compounds of Importance, Whether it is medicinally important compounds ... or notice from the point of view of material science. And We Believe That our technology or our chemistry Will Be Applicable, Thurs a very wide range of compounds, without knowing what They Might Be. "

Carbon-based, or organic, chemistry is the "Basis of Life" and fascinating Responsible for Natural Phenomena Including color in flowers, snake poison and bacteria-killing Substances like penicillin, the Committee said.

Organic chemistry has allowed Humans to Build a Nature's chemistry and has Given Mankind New Medicines and "revolutionary" materials like plastics, it said.

"In order to Create These complex chemicals, Chemists Need to Be Able to join the Carbon Atoms Together," the Nobel Committee said. "HOWEVER, carbon is stable and Carbon Atoms do Not Easily REACT with one Another."

The first methods used by Chemists Thurs bind Carbon Atoms Together were based on Various techniques for rendering carbon more reactive, the Committee said. The methods worked to Create simple Molecules, But Scientists ended up with too many "unwanted by-products" more "when Synthesizing Complex Molecules, They said.

"Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling That problem solved and Chemists Provided with a More Precise and efficient tool to work" with, "the Committee said. "In the Heck reaction, Negishi reaction, Suzuki reaction and the Carbon Atoms Meet is a palladium atom, whereupon Their proximity to one Another kick-starts the chemical reaction."