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Nature 441, xiii (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/7094xiiib; Published online 7 June 2006
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For nearly 70 years, a tiny organic compound called 2-quinuclidone has baffled organic chemists: no one could definitively synthesize it.Brian Stoltz, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, took on the challenge after repeatedly encountering the enigmatic molecule, which does not occur naturally, in the early years of his career.
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