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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for editor and authors of Thieme Chemistry


This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Benjamin List, Germany, and David MacMillan, USA, for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. In 2013, Benjamin List published a two-volume work on this topic with Thieme. As editor-in-chief of the journal SYNLETT of Thieme Chemistry, he has been largely responsible for its content since 2015. Furthermore, List has been an active member of the editorial board of the journal SYNFACTS since 2006. David MacMillan is the author of several chapters in Science of Synthesis, Thieme’s digital reference work for organic synthetic chemistry. For SYNLETT, he authored the paper, ‘Strategies to Bypass the Taxol Problem.’ In 2006, he received the Thieme IUPAC Prize. Catalysts are substances that enable


and accelerate chemical reactions, but are not consumed in the reaction process itself. Therefore, catalysts are fundamental tools for chemists in research and industry. For a long time, only two types of catalysts were known: metal complexes and enzymes. In 2000, Benjamin List and David MacMillan independently developed a third possibility: the so- called asymmetric organocatalysis. For this achievement, both scientists have now been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021, which is endowed with a


HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING HCL partners with Google Cloud


HCL Technologies (HCL) has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch healthcare and life sciences solutions.


HCL will establish a joint


centre of excellence (CoE) for Google Cloud with industry subject matter experts to deliver solutions for payer, provider, medtech and biopharma customers. HCL’s Google Cloud Native Labs will help accelerate these solutions with Google Cloud support, which provides AI and its security capabilities across the healthcare and life sciences value chain. Joe Miles, managing


director, cloud healthcare and life sciences, Google Cloud,


added: ‘We’re excited to see our partnership with HCL grow as we continue to build solutions that will help organisations digitally transform the processes and experiences of their customers, physicians and patients. Customers can leverage HCL’s strong healthcare and life sciences industry expertise and their investments in the centre of excellence for Google Cloud to support their growth and innovation objectives.’ HCL’s CoE will develop


solutions that address critical industry issues, such as interoperability, data governance and security. Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate vice president, partner ecosystem,


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Google Cloud, comments: ‘As the healthcare and life sciences industry continues to digitally transform, there is a growing need for solutions that are cloud-native, secure and support innovation. We are pleased to expand our partnership with HCL to provide our customers with solutions that will help throughout their cloud transformations.’ Shrikanth Shetty,


corporate vice president, HCL Technologies, said: ‘We partnered with Google Cloud for this key initiative because it will enable our experts at HCL to incorporate decades of domain expertise to deliver cutting- edge, cloud-native solutions


to the market. The partnership will help improve the patient and employee experiences and use data to drive insights in areas like claims management and servitisation.’ Sanjay Singh, senior vice


president and global head, HCL Google Ecosystem, HCL Technologies, said: ‘HCL and Google Cloud’s ecosystem is focused on helping our customers innovate by leveraging the power of Google Cloud. We will leverage our Google Cloud Native Labs to deliver rapid MVPs and solutions that will accelerate our healthcare and life sciences customers’ digital transformations.’


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total of around 980,000 Euros. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede in the Nobel Committee’s citation comments: ‘The laureates have developed a truly elegant tool for making molecules – simpler than one could ever imagine. It is already benefiting humankind greatly.’ The process makes it possible to use small organic substances as catalysts and thus make the production of molecules cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly. For example, researchers


“Catalysts are fundamental tools for chemists in research and industry”


can produce molecules needed for the production and development of pharmaceuticals more quickly and efficiently. Organocatalysis is now recognised worldwide as the third class of catalysis principles and has undergone rapid development since its introduction. Benjamin List and David MacMillan continue to be leaders in this field. Nobel prize Laureate Benjamin List is


director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2011, he joined the editorial board of


SYNLETT. In 2013, he co-edited with Keiji Maruoka a two-volume edition on asymmetric organocatalysis as part of Thieme’s Science of Synthesis (SOS) Reference Library. List is also the mastermind and


developer of the Select Crowd Review process, which combines up to date peer review with innovative technology. Select Crowd Review is used in SYNLETT and several other Thieme journals. Nobel prize laureate David MacMillan is


a professor at Princeton University, US. As an expert in stereoselective synthesis, he has authored several chapters for Science of Synthesis, Thieme’s curated and digital reference work on synthetic organic chemistry. SOS addresses the information needs of organic chemists and is a helpful resource for all those involved in designing synthetic routes, whether for research purposes or teaching and/or learning, by providing trusted and reliable information on the best synthetic methods available. In 2006, he received the Thieme–IUPAC Prize, which is awarded every two years at the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry – International Conference on Organic Synthesis (IUPAC–ICOS). You will find freely accessible articles by Benjamin List and David MacMillan here: Thieme E-Books & E-Journals – Synlett/ Edition (thieme-connect.com).


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