Nickel catalyst facilitates creation of single stereoisomer with two chiral centers
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of researchers at California Institute of Technology has found a nickel catalyst that bonds alkyl nucleophile and alkyl electrophiles to make a single stereoisomer with two chiral centers. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their process. Jianyu Xu and Mary Watson with the University of Delaware have published a Perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue.