Benjamin List

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Benjamin List
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2016)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2021)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cologne
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
Hokkaido University
ThesisSynthese eines Vitamin B 12 Semicorrins (1997)
Doctoral advisorJohann Mulzer
Other academic advisorsRichard Lerner
Carlos F. Barbas III

Benjamin List (German pronunciation:

asymmetric organocatalysis".[2]

Background

Born to an upper-middle-class family of scientists and artists[1] in Frankfurt, List is a great-grandson of the cardiologist Franz Volhard and a 2nd great-grandson of the chemist Jacob Volhard.[3] His aunt, the 1995 Nobel laureate in medicine Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, is the sister of his mother, architect Heidi List.[1][4] At age three, his parents divorced.[3]

Career and research

List obtained his

Scripps Research Institute Department of Molecular Biology in La Jolla, US as a postdoctoral researcher in Carlos F. Barbas III and Richard Lerner's research groups[9] from 1997 to 1998 with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation[3] and as an assistant professor from 1999 to 2003.[10][11]

In 2003 he returned to Germany to become group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, and in 2005 he became one of the institute's directors, heading the Homogeneous Catalysis Department.[3][12] He served as the institute's managing director from 2012 to 2014.[7] He has held a part-time position as an honorary professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne since 2004.[10][11] List is also a principal investigator at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University since 2018.[13][14] He is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Synlett.[15] As of 2021, he has an h-index of 95 according to Google Scholar[16] and of 86 according to Scopus.[17]

Catalyst for asymmetric reactions, L-proline

List is considered to be one of the founders of

Michael,[24] and α-amination reactions.[25][26] He found asymmetric catalysis (especially Asymmetric counteranion directed catalysis, ACDC).[27][28] He developed also new methods of textile organic catalysis, in which soluble organic catalysts and textiles are bound.[29] These methods could, for example, help to treat water where there is no fresh water.[18] Asymmetric organocatalysis[26] is particularly important in bioactive organic compounds, where the chirality of the compounds is important, for example in drug production.[20]

On 6 October 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."[2] The development has great influence on pharmaceutical research and the drug production and "made chemistry greener".[30]

Personal life

List married Sabine List in La Jolla in 1999 and they have two sons, Theo and Paul.[31][32][33] They all survived the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.[34]

List's parents sought to raise their children with an

anti-authoritarian parenting style; he has admitted occasionally using the approach with his own children, stating that "you may only be 12, but if you think it will do you good to eat ten chocolate bars, then go ahead and do it. I have faith in you. But my advice is: I wouldn't do it."[3]

Honors and awards

Source:[35]

  • 1994 NaFöG-Award from the City of Berlin[36]
  • 1997 Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 2000 Synthesis-Synlett Journal Award
  • 2003 Carl-Duisberg-Memorial Award [de] of the German Chemical Society
  • 2004 Degussa Prize for Chiral Chemistry
  • 2004 Lecturer's Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
  • 2004 Lieseberg Prize of the
    University of Heidelberg
  • 2005 AstraZeneca European Lectureship, the Society of Synthetic Chemistry, Japan
  • 2005 Lectureship Award
  • 2005 Novartis Young Investigator Award
  • 2006
    JSPS
    Fellowship Award of Japan
  • 2007 AstraZeneca Award in Organic Chemistry
  • 2007 Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
  • 2007 OBC-Lecture Award
  • 2008 Visiting Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
  • 2009 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Canada
  • 2009 Organic Reactions Lectureship, US
  • 2009 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
  • 2011 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Harvard University, US
  • 2011 ERC Advanced Grant
  • 2012 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award
  • 2012 Otto Bayer Award
  • 2013 Horst-Pracejus-Preis
  • 2013 Mukaiyama Award
  • 2013 Ruhrpreis, Mülheim, Germany
  • 2014 Cope Scholar Award, US
  • 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2015 Carl Shipp Marvel Lectures,
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    , US
  • 2016
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • 2017 Prof. U. R. Ghatak Endowment Lecture, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India
  • 2017 Ta-shue Chou Lectureship, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2018 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 2019 Herbert C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University, Indiana, US
  • 2019 Web of Science Citation Laureate in Chemistry
  • 2021 TCR Lecture, 100th CSJ Annual Meeting, Japan
  • 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[2]
  • 2022 Herbert C. Brown Award 2022 for Creative Research in Synthetic Methodes[37]

2024 Criegee Lectureship (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)[38]

Selected works

Source:[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Nobelpreis für Nüsslein-Volhards Neffen". Tagblatt.de. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e Pietschmann, Catarina (6 October 2021). "A Perspective for Life". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Nobelpreis an Deutschen für Revolution in der Chemie". Morgenpost. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  5. OCLC 613569311
  6. ISSN 0002-7863
    .
  7. ^ a b "Benjamin List, H. C. Brown lecture" (PDF). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Benjamin List, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, erhält ERC Advanced Grant des Europäischen Forschungsrates" (PDF). Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  9. S2CID 242889498
    . Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  10. ^ a b "List, Benjamin". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Vita Prof. List". kofo.mpg.de. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Board of Directors". Max Planck Institute for Coal Research. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  13. ^ "ICReDD Principal Investigator, Prof. Benjamin List won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021!! Huge congratulations!!". ICReDD: Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University (WPI-ICReDD). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  14. ^ a b "LIST, Benjamin". ICReDD: Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University (WPI-ICReDD). 23 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  15. PMID 28569830
    .
  16. ^ Benjamin List publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  17. ^ "Scopus preview – List, Benjamin – Author details – Scopus". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  18. ^ a b c d "DFG gratuliert Benjamin List zum Nobelpreis für Chemie". www.dfg.de (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  19. ^ a b List, Lerner & Barbas 2000.
  20. ^
    S2CID 238422185
    .
  21. ISSN 0040-4020
    .
  22. ISSN 0022-3263
    .
  23. PMID 11817958
    .
  24. PMID 11483025
    .
  25. PMID 12010036
    .
  26. ^
    ISSN 0009-2665
    .
  27. ^ Mayer & List 2006.
  28. PMID 23280677
    .
  29. ^ Lee et al. 2013.
  30. ^ Dörhöfer, Pamela (6 October 2021). "Chemie-Nobelpreis für "geniales Werkzeug"". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  31. ^ Harmsen, Torsten (6 October 2021). "Ehemaliger Berliner Student Benjamin List gewinnt Chemie-Nobelpreis". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  32. FAZ.NET
    (in German). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  33. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021, Benjamin List Interview". NobelPrize.org. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  34. ^ "Benjamin List: Der Nobelpreisträger, der den Tsunami überlebte". WDR. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  35. ^ "Awards Prof. List". Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  36. ^ "Diplom an der Freien Universität Berlin: Müller gratuliert Chemie-Nobelpreisträgern List und McMillan". rbb24 (in German). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  37. ^ "Professor Ben List erhält den Herbert C. Brown Award". Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (in German). 1 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  38. ^ Podlech, Joachim (10 September 2014). "KIT - Institut für Organische Chemie - Startseite". www.ioc.kit.edu (in German). Retrieved 20 April 2024.

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