High-throughput methods of synthesis and analysis are streamlining the search for new catalysts, reducing the timescale from years to days. A new class of polymerization catalysts is the latest discovery.
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Percec, V. Catalyst hunt accelerates. Nature 424, 135–136 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424135a
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