Morten P. Meldal

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Morton P. Meldal (* 1954 ) is a Danish chemist.

Meldal studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark , where he received his master’s degree in 1980 and his doctorate on the synthesis of oligosaccharides in 1983. As a post-doctoral student, he was at Cambridge University at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology . In 1996 he became a professor at the Technical University of Denmark. In addition, from 1988 he headed the Solid Phase Organic Combinatorial Chemistry Center at the Carlsberg Laboratory with the rank of professor. In 2004 he received an honorary professorship in the Pharmacy Department of the University of Copenhagen. In 2011 he became Professor of Nanochemistry at the University of Copenhagen at the Nano Science Center.

He is known for the development (2001) of the CuAAC (copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition) reaction, which is important in click chemistry (see 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition ). He uses them to build proteins and polymer architectures, comparable in his own words to molecular Lego . Its main goal is the synthesis of peptides and proteins (enzymes) from simple building blocks. He also further new synthesis methods come so on the basis of N- acyl - iminium ions .

Meldal received the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry in 2009 . For 2019 he was one of the Clarivate Citation Laureates . According to the Scopus database, Meldal has an h-index of 56 (as of October 2019) and 54 according to publons. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morten Meldal is the new professor in nanochemistry , Nano Science Center, February 7, 2011
  2. ^ Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ The Web of Science Group Reveals Annual Citation Laureates of 'Nobel Class'. In: Clarivate Analytics. September 24, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Meldal, Morten. Scopus, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Morten Meldal's Publons profile. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Royal Academy. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Meldal, Morton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meldal, Morton P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954