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Toolkit of reagents to aid drug discovery

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Reagents have been developed that allow carbon—hydrogen bonds on benzene-like compounds called heterocycles to be converted directly into carbon—carbon bonds. The finding will be a boon to medicinal chemists. See Letter p.95

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Figure 1: Applications and synthesis of substituted heterocycles.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 28 November 2012.

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