Robert H. Grubbs - Nobel Lecture

Olefin-Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials (Nobel Lecture 2005)Copyright The Nobel Foundation 2005. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture

This is a story of our exploration of the olefin-metathesis reaction, a reaction that has been the major emphasis of my independent research. As with all stories of scientific discovery, there are three components: the discoveries, the resulting applications, and, perhaps the most important of all, the people involved. Starting from observations made from seemingly unrelated work, our investiga...

Special Issue on Ruthenium Complexes.

The organic chemistry of ruthenium has been one of the most vigorously growing research areas over the past decades. Considerable effort has been extended towards the design and application of a broad series of ruthenium complexes, which culminated with the development by Ryoji Noyori (2001 Nobel Prize for Chemistry) of chiral ruthenium catalysts for stereoselective hydrogenation reactions [1],...

Development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis

Three researchers share this year ́s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Dr. Yves Chauvin at the Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France; Professor Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA and Professor Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences citation runs “for the d...

Phase Tags in the Recycling of Homogeneous Grubbs Catalysts

Since they were first synthesized in 1992, the ruthenium catalyst named after Nobel Laureate R. H. Grubbs have become a useful tool in organic synthesis. Compared to conventional heterogeneous metathesis catalysts, Grubbs catalysts are more reactive, faster to initiate and better for reaction control. Grubbs catalysts have been employed in good effort both in academia and industry, the later in...

A brief history of G-protein coupled receptors (Nobel Lecture).