15. CHEMISTRY IN EVERYDAY LIFE#

Prof. Vladimir Prelog was a Swiss Chemist who shared 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John W Cornforth for his work on Stereo Chemistry. He has done wide ranging research on alkaloids, antibiotics, enzymes and other natural compounds. He was distinguished for his contribution to the development of modern stereo chemistry. Prelog synthesized many natural products and worked on problems of stereo chemistry like adamenline, boromycin analoids and rifamycins

INTRODUCTION#

Chemistry touches every aspect of our lives. The three basic requirement of our life: food, clothes, shelter are all basically chemical compounds. In fact, life itself is a complicated system of interrelated chemical process. In this unit, we will learn the chemistry involved in the field of medicines, food materials, cleansing agents and polymers.