IN the last issue of the "Annual Reports of the Chemical Society" 1, F. S. Spring has directed special attention to the success of Ziegler and his collaborators 2 in substituting olefines in the ...

The inner workings of asymmetric organometallic catalyst systems are not revealed to chemists every day, every week, or even necessarily every year. Studies to understand the detailed mechanisms of ...

In the production of compounds, chemists have the goal of finding strategies that are most selective and avoid waste products. This helps to drive industrial innovation and drug development. In this ...