Packet 5: Bonus 6
For 10 points each, answer the following about the two-time Nobel laureate Barry Sharpless.
[10e] Sharpless blinded his eye after a tube made of this material exploded. This material comprises most Erlenmeyer flasks and beakers.
ANSWER: glass
[10h] Sharpless won a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize for the development of this type of chemistry, also called bio-orthogonal chemistry. This type of chemistry is named because it joins molecules quickly and efficiently.
ANSWER: click chemistry.
[10m] Sharpless won the 2001 Nobel Prize partly for the development of enantioselective catalysts for the formation of epoxides, a cyclic type of this functional group. Alkyl halides and alcohols react to form this functional group in the Williamson Synthesis.
ANSWER: ethers
<Science - Chemistry, Rohan Ganeshan> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 20.48 | 98% | 55% | 52% |
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 28.75 | 100% | 100% | 88% |