M. Rohmer receives Hofmann Prize

摘要

The Albert Hofmann Prize will be awarded on November 25 at the Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Uni- versity of Zurich for the first time since the death of the eponym (1906-2008). This year the award goes to Michel Rohmer (Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) for his work on the chemistry and biochemistry of microorganisms. He reported in Angewandte Chemie that the synthase for the biosynthesis of isoprenoids along the methylerythritol-phosphate path contains a [4Fe-4S] cluster.