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Richard Royce Schrock

Sir Richard John Roberts

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

Conference

THURSDAY 10 November
20:00 hours
Place: Aula Magna – Facultade de Química – Campus Vida

TITLE OF THE TALK: All about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005

pdf Poster of the Conference [pdf - 552 kb]

Meeting with researchers

Seminar of CIQUS research groups with Prof. Schrock
pdf Contents of the Meeting [pdf - 169 kb]
THURSDAY 10 november from 11:00 to 13:00
Place: CIQUS - Campus Vida

Nobel Prize "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”.

Prof. Schrock is a pioneer in the development of catalysts for metathesis reactions, a

type of transformation of unprecedented utility for building molecules (metathesis

means change of place, as in a dance in which people can exchange partners).
Many daily products that contribute to our welfare like perfumes, plastics, fibers and

particularly, drugs, are nonnatural products that have to be prepared in synthetic

laboratories using laborious and costly methods.

The discovery of Prof. Schrock proposes a new way of joining molecular fragments and

in this way has opened the door to the preparation of these products in much more rapid,

cost-efficient and ecological manner.
The development of metathesis reactions has brought a paradigmatic change in the way
synthetic chemists plan the construction of new molecules.