IN classical organic chemistry, two empirical rules, each of limited application, summarize the regularities which have been observed to govern the formation of olefins from alkyl compounds.

Reductive elimination reactions, in which a transition metal catalyzes new bond formation between two molecules, are one of organic chemists’ most powerful tools. For example, one flavor of these ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...

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