Happy 85th birthday, Sam, chemist and Mensch!

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Here are the #Omicron #SARSCoV2 mutations in each gene and the drugs, candidates, & vaccines that target them. The 3CL protease and RNA polymerase have only 1 mutation each (unlike spike, which has >30); the drug candidates targeting them might be more likely to retain efficacy.

#NASmember David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University receives the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for “the development of asymmetric organocatalysis,” a precise new tool for molecular construction. MacMillan shares the prize with Benjamin List.

One of the greatest joys in science is Anticipation. Check our our review on Natural Product Anticipation written with Belinda Hetzler and Andy Lawrence Andy Lawrence. Total Syntheses NYU Chemistry Chemistry Edinburgh Nature Reviews Chemistry rdcu.be/cEZq9