Public Lectures

K. Barry SHARPLESS

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, California, USA

Chemistry and the “Kiss Principle"

My lecture will consider the chemists’ love affair with reactivity. In particular, I will discuss how much more ‘new reactivity’ we think we need and how, by seeing the known in new light, we might find creating new properties and functions much easier than we had ever imagined possible. As an example, chemical orthogonality can enable us to create “Trojan Horse” molecules using Nature’s own biochemical tools without Her ever noticing.