Otto Bayer Prize
Otto Bayer Prize for Professor Alois Fürstner
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Award-winner Professor Alois Fürstner developed novel catalysts for the synthesis of complex carbon compounds.zoom in
Award-winner Professor Alois Fürstner developed novel catalysts for the synthesis of complex carbon compounds.
Professor Alois Fürstner, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany, was honored with the 2006 Otto Bayer Prize. Professor Fürstner develops special catalysts that make it possible to duplicate molecules from nature. This in turn makes it possible to produce many natural substances, such as antibiotics, hormones or fragrances, using chemical synthesis.

Cheap and highly efficient

For a long time, the scientific community had searched for an elegant chemical synthesis method for the production of medium-sized and large carbon rings. Alois Fürstner and his colleagues succeeded in developing highly specific and cost-effective catalysts for such structural elements. Read the following article to find out about the new possibilities that have opened up as a result.
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