Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec (born December 8, 1946) is a
Romanian-American chemist and
P. Roy Vagelos Chair and Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania. Expert in
organic,
macromolecular and
supramolecular chemistry including
self-assembly, biological membrane
mimics, complex
chiral systems, and
catalysis. Pioneered the fields of
liquid crystals with complex architecture, supramolecular
dendrimers,
Janus dendrimers and glycodendrimers, organic
Frank-Kasper phases and
quasicrystals, supramolecular
polymers, helical
chirality,
Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling and multiple
living and self-interrupted
polymerizations. Most of these concepts were inspired by
Nature and
biological principles.
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