Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 11:28 in Physics & Chemistry

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. This problem is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry, which currently relies on a method to accomplish this feat that is relatively inefficient and sometimes difficult to perform.

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