New Chemical Scissors Will Enable Some Drugs to Be $3 Instead of $3200
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6GTH4)
UCLA chemists have made dramatic improvements in organic chemistry. They use oxygen, copper scissors' to make cheaper drug treatments possible. Zhiqi He et al, Aminodealkenylation: Ozonolysis and copper catalysis convert C(sp 3 )-C(sp 2 ) bonds to C(sp 3 )-N bonds, Science (2023). Editor's summary Reactions that form carbon-nitrogen bonds most often target carbon centers ...