Benjamin List

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Benjamin List at the Leibniz Prize 2016 ceremony

Benjamin "Ben" List (born January 11, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German chemist and director of the department for homogeneous catalysis at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 2021 he and David MacMillan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their independent work on asymmetric organocatalysis .

family

Benjamin List comes from an upper-class Frankfurt family. He is a great-grandson of the nephrologist Franz Volhard and a great-great-grandson of the chemist Jacob Volhard . He is a nephew of the German Nobel Prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1995 . She is his mother's sister.

Benjamin "Ben" List is married and has two sons. He and his family survived the tsunami of December 26, 2004 in Khao Lak , Thailand.

List is a fan of the Eintracht Frankfurt soccer team .

Life

List graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a degree in chemistry in 1993. He received his doctorate in 1997 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with Johann Mulzer on the subject of the synthesis of a vitamin B12 - semicorrin . After a postdoc at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla , United States , working on catalytic antibodies , he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla in the Department of Molecular Biology from 1999 to 2003 . In 2003 he first became a working group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, where he became director in July 2005.

Works

L -proline is an amino acid which in the asymmetric organocatalysis in aldol reactions can be used

He is considered to be one of the founders of asymmetric organocatalysis , which does without metal compounds that are potentially harmful to health, the environment and expensive . In contrast to enzyme catalysis , small organic molecules are used here. In particular, he discovered the possibility of using the amino acid proline , and thus a naturally occurring organic substance, as an efficient catalyst for the production of optically active products in reactions such as the aldol reaction . He also found new methods of textile-organic catalysis, in which soluble organic catalysts are bound to textiles (for example for local water supply in remote areas), and asymmetric catalysis (especially Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis, ACDC). Asymmetric organocatalysis is particularly important in bioactive organic compounds where the chirality of the molecules is crucial, such as in drug production .

From 2005 to 2014 he was the spokesman for the DFG priority program 1179 Organocatalysis .

Since 2015 he has been chief editor of Synlett , when he had 2,011 publishers was. He has also been one of the editors of Synfacts since 2005 .

Since 2018, List has been one of 15 research directors at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery at Hokkaido University in Sapporo , Japan .

honors and awards

List has received numerous prizes and awards. Among other things, the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) honored him in 2003 with the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize . Furthermore, in 2004 he received the teaching fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie . In 2012 he received the Otto Bayer Prize endowed with 75,000 euros , and in 2013 the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science . For 2016 he was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 2019 he gave a plenary lecture at the GDCh- Wissenschaftsforum Chemie ( Very Strong and Confined Chiral Acids: Universal Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis? ).

List was visiting professor at Gakushūin University , Tokyo , Japan in 2005 and at Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of Korea in 2008 . Since 2004 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Cologne (Institute for Organic Chemistry). In 2018 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 2021 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis” together with David MacMillan . After Karl Ziegler, Benjamin List is the second Nobel Prize winner for chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Planck Society: Vita. Max Planck Society, accessed on October 8, 2021 .
  2. ^ Homepage of Benjamin List's group at the MPI for Coal Research
  3. ^ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021. In: The Nobel Price. The Nobel Price Foundation, October 6, 2021, accessed October 8, 2021 .
  4. ^ Nobel Prize in Chemistry to German and US researchers. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt online (aerzteblatt.de) from October 6, 2021. Source dpa .
  5. ^ To German and US researchers - Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the acceleration of reactions. In: Ärzte-Zeitung online, October 6, 2021.
  6. ↑ Manfred Lindinger: Nature as a model - Nobel Prize in Chemistry for organic catalysis. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for Germany, number 233 of October 7, 2021, p. 11. and Joachim Müller-Jung: Disrespect for the Nobel Prize. , P. 10 (not on page 8, as it says in a short message on page 1).
  7. ↑ a b A perspective for life. Max Planck Society, accessed on October 6, 2021 .
  8. ↑ List, Benjamin. Max Planck Society, September 23, 2021, accessed on October 6, 2021 .
  9. ^ Nobel Prize for Nüsslein-Volhard's nephew . In: tagblatt.de . October 6, 2021 ( tagblatt.de [accessed October 6, 2021]).
  10. ↑ https://profis.eintracht.de/news/preis-im-namen-der-wissenschaft-ehrung-durch-die-eintracht-137619
  11. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Benjamin List at academictree.org, accessed on May 26, 2018.
  12. ↑ Employee page. Hokkaido University , October 7, 2021; accessed October 8, 2021 .
  13. ↑ Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize. Society of German Chemists , May 10, 2021, accessed October 6, 2021 .
  14. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021. Nobel Foundation , accessed October 6, 2021 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME List, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES List, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
BIRTH DATE January 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main