K. Barry Sharpless New Developments in Click Chemistry

The Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology and Policy resumed with Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless lecture, titled New Developments in Click Chemistry, which described a new, third perfect click reaction that converts any primary amine or aniline to an energyrich azide. Sharpless is the W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in LaJolla, Calif. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions. Numerous other awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences and, most recently, the 2019 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society for the invention of catalytic, asymmetric oxidation methods, the concept of click chemistry and development of the coppercatalyzed version of the azideacetylene cycloaddition Following his share of the Nobel Prize, Sharpless pioneered the concept of click chemistry rapid,