The bonds between two carbon atoms tend to be hard to break. But careful manipulation of the starting material can make the process remarkably easy.
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Crabtree, R. Clipping the carbon–carbon bond. Nature 408, 415–416 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35044164
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