Eco-friendly drug production Nobel winner's proudest achievement
Washington (AFP) - Princeton professor David MacMillan on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis." Here is a lightly edited interview that the Scotsman, who holds British and American citizenships, gave to AFP after the announcement. Organic moleculesQ: Why is organocatalysis so different and important compared to the catalysts that came before, such as metals and enzymes? A: Chemical reactions make all the things that are around us: medicine, materials, etc. And th...