He also showed that cyclodextrin can be used to investigate catalysis of organic reactions within the scope of host–guest chemistry.
During his career, Myron L. Bender was an active member of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society.
He was elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford University, and to the National Academy of Sciences, the latter in 1968.
[8] Bender pioneered the use of p-nitrophenyl acetate as a model substrate for studying proteolysis, as it is particularly convenient in spectroscopic experiments.
Philipp and Bender later did a detailed study of the catalytic differences between native subtilisin and thiolsubtilisin.
Bender authored or co-authored several reviews, for example summarizing several years' work on α-chymotrypsin,[19] and proteolytic enzymes in general.
The scientists who have given these lectures include Julius Rebek (1990), JoAnne Stubbe (1992), Peter B. Dervan (1993), Marye Anne Fox (1994), Richard Lerner (1995), Eric Jacobsen (1997), Larry E. Overman (1998), Ronald Breslow (1999), Jean Fréchet (2000), Dale Boger (2001), |Barbara Imperiali (2003), François Diederich (2004), Christopher T. Walsh (2008), Stephen L. Buchwald (2009), Paul Wender (2010), and Kendall Houk (2011).