Professor Paolo Melchiorre FRSC
Winner: 2021 Organic Division open award:
Pedler Award
Institut Català d'Investigació Química, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
For the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.
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Professor Melchiorre is developing sustainable methods to synthesise chiral molecules with precise control over their 3D shape. This involves identifying unconventional reactivity concepts to implement novel chemical transformations. Specifically, he uses the energy of visible light to trigger chemical processes that cannot be realised otherwise. He likes the idea of using light excitation to reveal new properties of organic molecules and to understand how to use these new properties in organic chemistry.
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