Benjamin List (born 11 January 1968) is a German chemist and 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate.
Born in Frankfurt am Main,[1] List obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Free University of Berlin, and his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt.[2] He is professor at the University of Cologne and Director and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research.[3] He is also a principal investigator at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University.[4]
He has an h-index of 95 according to Google Scholar.[5]
On October 6th 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan.
Honors and Awards
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2019 Herbert C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
- 2018 Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina
- 2017 Prof. U. R. Ghatak Endowment Lecture, Kolkata, India
- 2017 Ta-shue Chou Lectureship, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2015 Carl Shipp Marvel Lectures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
- 2014 Cope Scholar Award, USA
- 2013 Ruhrpreis, Mülheim, Germany
- 2013 Mukaiyama Award 2013
- 2013 Horst-Pracejus-Preis
- 2012 Otto-Bayer-Preis
- 2012 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award
- 2011 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Harvard University, USA
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
- 2009 Organic Reactions Lectureship, USA
- 2009 Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship, Canada
- 2008 Visiting Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- 2007 AstraZeneca Award in Organic Chemistry
- 2007 OBC-Lecture Award
- 2007 Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 2006 JSPS Fellowship Award of Japan
- 2005 Novartis Young Investigator Award
- 2005 AstraZeneca European Lectureship, the Society of Synthetic Chemistry, Japan
- 2005 Lectureship Award
- 2004 Lieseberg-Price of the University of Heidelberg
- 2004 Lecturer’s Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- 2004 Degussa Price for Chiral Chemistry
- 2003 Carl-Duisberg-Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society
- 2000 Synthesis-Synlett Journal Award,
- 1997 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1994 NaFoG-Award from the City of Berlin
Selected publications
Representative Research Achievements
Source:[4]
- List, Benjamin; Lerner, Richard A.; Barbas, Carlos F. (26 February 2000). "Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (10). American Chemical Society (ACS): 2395–2396. doi:10.1021/ja994280y. ISSN 0002-7863.
- Mayer, Sonja; List, Benjamin (19 June 2006). "Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45 (25). Wiley: 4193–4195. doi:10.1002/anie.200600512. ISSN 1433-7851.
- Čorić, Ilija; List, Benjamin (2012). "Asymmetric spiroacetalization catalysed by confined Brønsted acids". Nature. 483 (7389). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 315–319. doi:10.1038/nature10932. ISSN 0028-0836.
- Kaib, Philip S. J.; Schreyer, Lucas; Lee, Sunggi; Properzi, Roberta; List, Benjamin (6 October 2016). "Extremely Active Organocatalysts Enable a Highly Enantioselective Addition of Allyltrimethylsilane to Aldehydes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (42). Wiley: 13200–13203. doi:10.1002/anie.201607828. ISSN 1433-7851.
- Tsuji, Nobuya; Kennemur, Jennifer L.; Buyck, Thomas; Lee, Sunggi; Prévost, Sébastien; Kaib, Philip S. J.; Bykov, Dmytro; Farès, Christophe; List, Benjamin (29 March 2018). "Activation of olefins via asymmetric Brønsted acid catalysis". Science. 359 (6383). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1501–1505. doi:10.1126/science.aaq0445. ISSN 0036-8075.
References
- ^ "List, Benjamin". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ https://www.chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectures/2019/List%20web%20bio_2.pdf
- ^ https://www.kofo.mpg.de/en/research/homogeneous-catalysis/vita
- ^ a b "LIST, Benjamin". ICReDD: Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University (WPI-ICReDD). 23 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "Benjamin List". Google Scholar. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
External links
Scholia has a profile for Benjamin List (Q105572).
- Benjamin List on Nobelprize.org
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