Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi y Akira Suzuki comparten el Premio Nobel de Química 2010, por desarrollar nuevas y más eficientes formas de unir átomos de carbono y construir complejas moléculas que están mejorando nuestras vida cotidiana.
There is an increasing need for complex chemicals. Humanity wants new medicines that can cure cancer or halt the devastating effects of deadly viruses in the human body. The electronics industry is searching for substances that can emit light, and the agricultural industry wants substances that can protect crops. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 rewards a tool that has improved the ability of chemists to satisfy all of these wishes very efficiently: palladium-catalyzed cross coupling.
Los tres investigadores son reconocidos por sus trabajos, desarrollados de forma independiente, sobre el acoplamiento cruzado del paladio catalizado, que es utilizado en la investigación y en la producción farmacéutica industrial, por ejemplo de medicamentos y de moléculas utilizadas en la industria electrónica.
Palladium
Estas herramientas químicas han mejorado enormemente las posibilidades de los científicos para crear (compuestos) químicos sofisticados, por ejemplo moléculas basadas en el carbono tan complejas como las presentes en la naturaleza:
Never-ending progress
As the Heck reaction, the Suzuki reaction and the Negishi reaction are all of vital importance for the creation of ever more complex chemicals, other chemists have optimized and altered them. One such alteration is linked to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. In spring 2010, scientists announced that they had attached palladium atoms to graphene, and the resulting solid material was used to carry out the Suzuki reaction in water.
The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction is still being developed, even though it is now more than 40 years since Richard Heck first began experimenting in his Delaware laboratory. The discoveries of Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, are already of great importance to humanity. However, taking into account the developments currently being made in laboratories worldwide, their reactions are likely to become even more important in the future.
que Dios los proteja sigan adelante sin perder la gravedad terrestre,por el bíen de nuestras futuras generaciones. ¡ FELICIDADES !