Nobel Prize

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  (press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Femtoland web page: The Birth of Molecules, A.H. Zewail, Scientific American, Vol. 262, Dec. 1990, pp.40-46 Laser Femtochemistry, A.H. Zewail, Science, Vol. 242 (1988), pp. 1645-1653 Femtochemistry: Recent progress in studies of Dynamics and Control of Reactions and their Transition States, A.H. Zewail, J. Phys.…

Contents: Based on materials from the 1999 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Ahmed H. Zewail for his studies of transition states of chemical reactions by femtosecond spectroscopy. Ahmed Zewail receives the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for being the first to reveal the decisive moments of a chemical reaction –…

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Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Jan-Erling Bäckvall, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2010 Professor Jan-Erling Bäckvall presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för en metod att länka samman kolatomer, och denna metod har…

  Editors: Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen and Margareta Wiberg Roland, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Author: Dr Olof Wennerström, Department of Organic Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Illustrator: Karin Feltzin, Stockholm, Sweden Printed by: Tryckindustri AB, Solna 1990 Copyright © , Information Department, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. +46-8-673 95…

Retrosynthetic analysis can be compared to the climbing of a tree. You are at the root of the tree (the target molecule) and want to climb to the top branches (the starting materials). The tree branches off many times. You have to choose your way! Which way is the fastest, the easiest and the most…

In order to develop the logic of organic synthesis, a thorough knowledge of the individual chemical reactions which make up a method of synthesis is required. New types of organic reactions are constantly being invented all over the world and give rise to new methods. Many of these have been created and developed by E.J.…