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| *2022 Herbert C. Brown Award<ref name="Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung 2021">{{cite web | title=Professor Ben List erhält den Herbert C. Brown Award | website=Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung | date=1 October 2021 | url=https://www.kofo.mpg.de/844630/20212709-Herbert-C-Brown-Award-an-Ben-List | language=de | access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref> | *2022 Herbert C. Brown Award<ref name="Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung 2021">{{cite web | title=Professor Ben List erhält den Herbert C. Brown Award | website=Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung | date=1 October 2021 | url=https://www.kofo.mpg.de/844630/20212709-Herbert-C-Brown-Award-an-Ben-List | language=de | access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | ==Selected works<ref name="ICReDD: Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University (WPI-ICReDD) 2020" />== | ||
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| * {{cite journal | last1=List | first1=Benjamin | last2=Lerner | first2=Richard A. | last3=Barbas | first3=Carlos F. | title=Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=122 | issue=10 | date=26 February 2000 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja994280y | pages=2395–2396}} | * {{cite journal | last1=List | first1=Benjamin | last2=Lerner | first2=Richard A. | last3=Barbas | first3=Carlos F. | title=Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=122 | issue=10 | date=26 February 2000 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja994280y | pages=2395–2396}} | ||
| * {{cite journal | last1=Mayer | first1=Sonja | last2=List | first2=Benjamin | title=Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis | journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition | publisher=Wiley | volume=45 | issue=25 | date=19 June 2006 | issn=1433-7851 | doi=10.1002/anie.200600512 | pages=4193–4195| pmid=16721891 }} | * {{cite journal | last1=Mayer | first1=Sonja | last2=List | first2=Benjamin | title=Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis | journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition | publisher=Wiley | volume=45 | issue=25 | date=19 June 2006 | issn=1433-7851 | doi=10.1002/anie.200600512 | pages=4193–4195| pmid=16721891 }} | ||
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German chemist (born 1968)| Benjamin List | |
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| Born | (1968-01-11) 11 January 1968 (age 56) Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Education | Free University of Berlin (Diplom) Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD) |
| Awards | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Cologne Max Planck Institute for Coal Research Hokkaido University |
| Thesis | Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Mulzer |
Benjamin List (born 11 January 1968) is a German chemist who is director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".
Background
Born into a family of the high bourgeoisie in Frankfurt, List is a great-grandson of the cardiologist Franz Volhard and a 2nd great-grandson of the chemist Jacob Volhard. He is a nephew of the 1995 Nobel laureate in medicine Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, who is his mother's sister.
Career and research
List obtained his Diplom (M.Sc.) degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 1993, and his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1997. His doctoral dissertation was titled Synthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (Synthesis of a vitamin B 12 semicorrin), and was advised by Johann Mulzer. List worked at the Scripps Research Institute Department of Molecular Biology in La Jolla, U.S. as a postdoctoral researcher from 1997 to 1998 and as an assistant professor from 1999 to 2003. In 2003 he returned to Germany to become group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, and in 2005 he became the institute's director. He has held a part-time position as an honorary professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne since 2004. List is also a principal investigator at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University. He is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Synlett. He has an h-index of 95 according to Google Scholar.
He is considered to be one of the founders of organocatalysis. In particular, he discovered the possibility of using the amino acid proline as an efficient catalyst. This takes place in intermolecular aldol reactions induced by proline. He also found new methods of textile organic catalysis, in which soluble organic catalysts and textiles are bound, and asymmetric catalysis. Asymmetric organocatalysis is particularly important in bioactive organic compounds, where the chirality of the compounds is important, for example in drug production.
On 6 October 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis." The development has great influence on pharmaceutical research and the manufacture of drugs and "made chemistry greener".
Honors and awards
- 1994 NaFoG-Award from the City of Berlin
- 1997 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2000 Synthesis-Synlett Journal Award,
- 2003 Carl-Duisberg-Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society
- 2004 Degussa Prize for Chiral Chemistry
- 2004 Lecturer’s Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 2004 Lieseberg-Prize of the University of Heidelberg
- 2005 AstraZeneca European Lectureship, the Society of Synthetic Chemistry, Japan
- 2005 Lectureship Award
- 2005 Novartis Young Investigator Award
- 2006 JSPS Fellowship Award of Japan
- 2007 AstraZeneca Award in Organic Chemistry
- 2007 Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 2007 OBC-Lecture Award
- 2008 Visiting Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- 2009 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Canada
- 2009 Organic Reactions Lectureship, US
- 2009 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
- 2011 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Harvard University, US
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2012 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award
- 2012 Otto-Bayer-Preis [de]
- 2013 Horst-Pracejus-Preis
- 2013 Mukaiyama Award
- 2013 Ruhrpreis, Mülheim, Germany
- 2014 Cope Scholar Award, US
- 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
- 2015 Carl Shipp Marvel Lectures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
- 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2017 Prof. U. R. Ghatak Endowment Lecture, Kolkata, India
- 2017 Ta-shue Chou Lectureship, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2018 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2019 Herbert C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University, Indiana, US
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2022 Herbert C. Brown Award
Selected works
- List, Benjamin; Lerner, Richard A.; Barbas, Carlos F. (26 February 2000). "Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (10). American Chemical Society (ACS): 2395–2396. doi:10.1021/ja994280y. ISSN 0002-7863.
- Mayer, Sonja; List, Benjamin (19 June 2006). "Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45 (25). Wiley: 4193–4195. doi:10.1002/anie.200600512. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 16721891.
- Čorić, Ilija; List, Benjamin (2012). "Asymmetric spiroacetalization catalysed by confined Brønsted acids". Nature. 483 (7389). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 315–319. Bibcode:2012Natur.483..315C. doi:10.1038/nature10932. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22422266. S2CID 4401955.
- Kaib, Philip S. J.; Schreyer, Lucas; Lee, Sunggi; Properzi, Roberta; List, Benjamin (6 October 2016). "Extremely Active Organocatalysts Enable a Highly Enantioselective Addition of Allyltrimethylsilane to Aldehydes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (42). Wiley: 13200–13203. doi:10.1002/anie.201607828. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 27653018.
- Tsuji, Nobuya; Kennemur, Jennifer L.; Buyck, Thomas; Lee, Sunggi; Prévost, Sébastien; Kaib, Philip S. J.; Bykov, Dmytro; Farès, Christophe; List, Benjamin (29 March 2018). "Activation of olefins via asymmetric Brønsted acid catalysis". Science. 359 (6383). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1501–1505. Bibcode:2018Sci...359.1501T. doi:10.1126/science.aaq0445. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29599238. S2CID 4549863.
References
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- "Eine Perspektive fürs Leben". MPG. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "List, Benjamin". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- "Nobelpreis für Nüsslein-Volhards Neffen". Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- OCLC 613569311
- Mulzer, Johann; List, Benjamin; Bats, Jan W. (1 June 1997). "Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Nonracemic Vitamin B12 A−B-Semicorrin". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119 (24). American Chemical Society (ACS): 5512–5518. doi:10.1021/ja9700515. ISSN 0002-7863.
- "Benjamin List, H. C. Brown lecture" (PDF). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- Benjamin List, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, erhält ERC Advanced Grant des Europäischen Forschungsrates
- "Vita Prof. List". kofo.mpg.de. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "LIST, Benjamin". ICReDD: Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University (WPI-ICReDD). 23 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- List, Benjamin (30 May 2017). "Crowd-based peer review can be good and fast". Nature. 546 (7656): 9–9. doi:10.1038/546009a.
- "Benjamin List". Google Scholar. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- Dörhöfer, Pamela (6 October 2021). "Chemie-Nobelpreis für "geniales Werkzeug"". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- "Professor Ben List erhält den Herbert C. Brown Award". Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (in German). 1 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
External links
Scholia has a profile for Benjamin List (Q105572).
- Benjamin List on Nobelprize.org
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