Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan win the 2021 Nobel Prize

href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/summary/"> Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan win the 2021 nobel prize for their contribution to asymmetric organic catalysis. Back to 2000, Benjamin List propose that one can use only small part of enzyme to do the chemical reaction, he first use L-Prolin, a chiral organic amino acid to specific construct diastereomer. After that, people start to realize that a simple chiral organic molecule can act as catalyst. He bring this general idea to this field. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/summary/

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