Satoshi Matsutani

Oct 10, 2024 | science.org | Dimitri Fabrèges |Stephanie Hampton |Ravindra Krushnaji Raut |Satoshi Matsutani

Editor’s summaryOver the past half-century, organic chemists have devised numerous catalysts that deliver just one of two possible mirror-image (enantiomeric) products. For the most part, these catalysts rely on binding sites with oxygen or nitrogen atoms; pure hydrocarbons lacking such sites are much harder to bias spatially as the reaction ensues. Raut et al.