Reacción a "Reactions to Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Bertozzi, Meldal and Sharpless for click chemistry and its use in living organisms"

This was a fantastic recognition. The term 'click chemistry' already demonstrates the ingenuity of K.Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal in identifying a set of chemical reactions that are particularly useful for their simplicity and effectiveness in building complex molecules from simpler and therefore more easily accessible ones.   

Click chemistry' is such a powerful chemical toolkit that there are examples of its use to make molecules with unusually diverse applications in materials science, nanotechnology, biology, natural products chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, to name but a few. That Carolyn R. Bertozzi shares this award for her ability to transfer the concept to the development of 'bioorthogonal reactions' in living organisms is the best demonstration of what can be achieved.