Using light to extend the scope of carbonylation reactions
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 09:40
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of researchers at McGill University has found that light can be used to extend the scope of carbonylation reactions. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes using ordinary light to both break and make carbon-halogen bonds. In a Perspective piece printed in the same journal issue, Prasad Kathe and Ivana Fleischer with the University of Tübingen describe some of the problems chemists have encountered when trying to carry out carbonylation reactions, and how the work by the team in Canada solves many of the issues.