Morten Meldal
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Morten Meldal is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in click chemistry and the development of copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reactions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Morten Meldal canonical | 5 |
| Morten P. Meldal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morten Meldal Context triple: [K. Barry Sharpless, doctoralStudent, Morten Meldal]
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Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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B.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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C.
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart is a Scottish-born chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the design and synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures such as rotaxanes and catenanes.
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D.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
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E.
Richard R. Schrock
Richard R. Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on olefin metathesis and organometallic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morten Meldal Target entity description: Morten Meldal is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in click chemistry and the development of copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reactions.
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A.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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B.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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C.
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart is a Scottish-born chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the design and synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures such as rotaxanes and catenanes.
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D.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
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E.
Richard R. Schrock
Richard R. Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on olefin metathesis and organometallic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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chemist ⓘ human ⓘ organic chemist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
ⓘ
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 ⓘ
linked to:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| doctoralStudentOf | Technical University of Denmark ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Technical University of Denmark ⓘ |
| employer |
Carlsberg Laboratory
ⓘ
linked to:
Carlsberg Foundation
University of Copenhagen ⓘ |
| familyName | Meldal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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click chemistry ⓘ organic chemistry ⓘ synthetic chemistry ⓘ |
| givenName | Morten ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Kurt Rasmussen ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0001-XXXX-XXXX ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
bioorthogonal chemistry
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combinatorial chemistry ⓘ peptide chemistry ⓘ |
| influenced | development of modern click chemistry methodologies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1,2,3-triazole synthesis via cycloaddition
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CuAAC reaction ⓘ click chemistry ⓘ copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Danish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ⓘ |
| name | Morten Meldal ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeDiscipline | Chemistry ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition
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pioneering contributions to click chemistry ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Denmark ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of chemistry ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
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Karl Barry Sharpless ⓘ
linked to:
K. Barry Sharpless
|
| workLocation | Copenhagen ⓘ |
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Referenced by (6)
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