New insights into how the most iconic reaction in organic chemistry really works
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) -- In 1928, chemists Otto Diels and Kurt Alder first documented diene synthesis, a chemical reaction important for synthesizing many polymers, alkaloids and steroids. Their work on this mechanism, which came to be known as the DielsAlder reaction, won them the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry.