Morten P. Meldal

Morten Meldal
Meldal in 2023
Born
Morten Peter Meldal

(1954-01-16) 16 January 1954 (age 70)
Denmark
EducationTechnical University of Denmark (BS, MS, PhD)
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
Institutions
Thesis Reactions of Unsaturated Sugars with Hydrogen Halides  (1983)
Doctoral advisorKlaus Bock

Morten Peter Meldal (born 16 January 1954) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen[1] in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction,[2][3] concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless.[4]

  1. ^ "Morten Meldal is the new professor in nanochemistry". Nano- Science Center. 7 February 2011. Archived from the original on 16 August 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  2. ^ Tornøe, C.W. and Meldal, M., Peptidotriazoles: Copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions on solid-phase. In: Lebl, M., Houghten, R.A. (Eds.), American Peptide Society and Kluwer Academic Publishers, San Diego, 2001, pp. 263–4.
  3. ^ Yan, Bing; Czarnik, Anthony W., eds. (4 December 2001). "five". Optimization of Solid-Phase Combinatorial Synthesis (1 ed.). United States: CRC Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-8247-0654-8. Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2014. and Meldal, M., Peptidotriazoles on solid-phase.
  4. ^ Rostovtsev, Vsevolod V.; Green, Luke G; Fokin, Valery V.; Sharpless, K. Barry (2002). "A Stepwise Huisgen Cycloaddition Process: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective "Ligation" of Azides and Terminal Alkynes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41 (14): 2596–2599. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20020715)41:14<2596::aid-anie2596>3.0.co;2-4. PMID 12203546.