David MacMillan (1968)

Scottish chemist, professor at Princeton University. In 2000 he described the catalysis of Diels–Alder reactions by chiral amines (imidazolidinones) that activate α,β-unsaturated aldehydes as iminium ions, and coined the term “organocatalysis”.

He later developed photoredox catalysis combined with organocatalysis. He received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Benjamin List, for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

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