Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, celebrates his 70th birthday on May xviii, 2021.

Ben Feringa's work focuses on organic synthesis, molecular switches and synthetic motors, cocky-assembly of molecular nanosystems, asymmetric catalysis, and stereoselective synthesis methods. In 1999, he made a highly acclaimed breakthrough with the development of a light-driven molecular motor. Since and then, much of his research has focused on dynamic molecular systems. In 2016, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Academy of Strasbourg, France, and Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines".

Ben Feringa studied chemical science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 for research supervised past Hans Wynberg. Later working as a Research Scientist at Shell in kingdom of the netherlands and the UK, he returned to the University of Groningen as a Lecturer. In 1988, he was promoted to Full Professor of organic chemical science and in 2003, Feringa was named the Jacobus H. van't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the aforementioned university.

Among the Nobel Prize and many others honors, Ben Feringa's research has been recognized with the Spinoza Laurels (the highest scientific distinction in kingdom of the netherlands), the Prelog Gold Medal in 2005, the Paracelsus Medal in 2008, RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award in 2011, the Nagoya Golden Medal in 2013, and the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal of the GDCh (German language Chemical Society) in 2016. Ben Feringa is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society, a Fellow member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany. He likewise is a Fellow of Chemical science Europe. In 2008, he was knighted past Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.

Selected Publications

  • Accented Configuration Determination from Depression ee Compounds past the Crystalline Sponge Method. Unusual Conglomerate Formation in a Pre‐Determined Crystalline Lattice,
    Ritesh Dubey, KaKing Yan, Takashi Kikuchi, Shiho Sairenji, Anouk Rossen, Shermin S. Goh, Ben 50. Feringa, Makoto Fujita,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202102559
  • Cocky‐Assembly of Photoresponsive Molecular Amphiphiles in Aqueous Media,
    Shaoyu Chen, Romain Costil, Franco Rex‐Chi Leung, Ben L. Feringa,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
    https://doi.org/ten.1002/anie.202007693
  • Low-cal-Gated Rotation in a Molecular Motor Functionalized with a Dithienylethene Switch,
    Diederik Roke, Constantin Stuckhardt, Wojciech Danowski, Sander J. Wezenberg, Ben L. Feringa,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10515–10519.
    https://doi.org/ten.1002/anie.201802392
  • Fast, Efficient and Low East-Factor I-Pot Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of (Hetero)Arenes,
    Erik B. Pinxterhuis, Paco Visser, Iwan Esser, Jean-Baptiste Gualtierotti, Ben L. Feringa,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9452–9455.
    https://doi.org/x.1002/anie.201707760
  • Photocontrolled Fluorescence "Double-Check" Bioimaging Enabled by a Glycoprobe-Poly peptide Hybrid,
    Youxin Fu, Hai-Hao Han, Junji Zhang, Xiao-Peng He, Ben Fifty. Feringa, He Tian,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 8671–8674.
    https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b05425
  • The Art of Building Pocket-sized: From Molecular Switches to Motors (Nobel Lecture),
    Ben L. Feringa,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017.
    https://doi.org/x.1002/anie.201702979
  • Reversible Photocontrol of Biological Systems by the Incorporation of Molecular Photoswitches,
    Wiktor Szymański, John M. Beierle, Hans A. Five. Kistemaker, Willem A. Velema, Ben L. Feringa,
    Chem. Rev. 2013, 113, 6114–6178.
    https://doi.org/10.1021/cr300179f
  • Molecular Switches,
    Ben L. Feringa, Wesley R. Browne (Eds.),
    Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2011.
    ISBN: 978-iii-527-63441-five
  • Catalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Allylic Alkylation with Grignard Reagents,
    Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan, Tim den Hartog, Koen Geurts, Adriaan J. Minnaard, Ben L. Feringa,
    Chem. Rev. 2008, 108, 2824–2852.
    https://doi.org/10.1021/cr068424k
  • Making molecular machines work,
    Wesley R. Browne, Ben Fifty. Feringa,
    Nat. Nanotechnol. 2006, 1, 25–35.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2006.45

Also of Interest

  • Video: Ben L. Feringa,
    Mario Müller,
    ChemistryViews 2017.
    Teaser for Ben Fifty. Feringa'due south lecture at the Angewandte Festsymposium
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016,
    ChemistryViews 2016.
    J.-P. Sauvage, Sir J. F. Stoddart, and B. L. Feringa awarded for the pattern and synthesis of molecular machines
  • Baronial Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal for Ben Feringa,
    ChemistryViews 2016.
    Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, High german Chemic Society) honors outstanding achievements in chemistry
  • Video: Discover Chemistry Europe
    Chemistry Europe 2020
    Prof. Dr. Feringa talks about the importance of order publishing

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