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Nature 441, 165-166 (11 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441165a; Published online 10 May 2006
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- Minnesota, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Genomics - Team 78 – Ref: 80464
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Chemistry: A catalytic knight's move
Robert H. Crabtree1
Abstract
The reactivity of inert hydrocarbons can be transformed by a catalytic double act. With the ability to manipulate the lengths of the resulting carbon chains, this development opens up fresh vistas.
In chess, a knight's move can be formidable, because the implications of the combination of horizontal and diagonal motion are hard for an opponent to anticipate. Likewise, tandem reactions in chemistry are a combination of known reactions that provides an equally unexpected outcome.
- Robert H. Crabtree is in the Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
Email: robert.crabtree@yale.edu
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