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Light opens pathways for nickel catalysis

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The report of a light-activated catalyst that generates usually inaccessible nickel intermediates provides a general strategy that might allow elusive catalytic reactions to be realized. See Letter p.330

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Figure 1: Switching oxidation states for nickel catalysis.

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  1. John J. Murphy and Paolo Melchiorre are at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona 43007, Spain.,

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