Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Wins 2010 Chemistry Nobel
Professors Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki share the 2010 Nobel Prize for the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling Reaction. For now, the Reaction has been mainly useful in synthesizing drugs – including those against cancer – that mimic those found in nature but are hard-to-extract. The image at right (Source: Wikipedia) shows the process mechanism for [...]
Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0
Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010: Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in [...]
