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		cecilpl on Oct 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 I'm surprised that it's only MacMillan and List for organocatalysis. There's plenty of others that come to mind, like Jacobsen. Regarding MacMillan, his student used proline (which opened the whole proline organocatalysis area) and he said he had "no idea why she did that experiment". He definitely guides his students well.

regitempus on Oct 6, 2021 | [–]

Can you elaborate on your second paragraph or link to the full story?

alpineidyll3 on Oct 7, 2021 | [–]

I dealt with the man a fair bit and can say he is widely reviled as a sociopath.

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