Publication Date:
2008-09-19
Description:
The use of small organic molecules as catalysts has been known for more than a century. But only in the past decade has organocatalysis become a thriving area of general concepts and widely applicable asymmetric reactions. Here I present my opinion on why the field of organocatalysis has blossomed so dramatically over the past decade.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacMillan, David W C -- R01 GM078201-01-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 Sep 18;455(7211):304-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07367.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University, 116 Frick Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. dmacmill@princeton.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800128" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Catalysis
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Chemistry, Organic/*history/*methods
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Ions/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
