Simple Cobalt Catalyst Unlocks Hard-to-Use Chemical Building Blocks
Mandy Melton
Chemists have long known that some of the most common building blocks for making medicines, materials and industrial chemicals—compounds called alkyl chlorides—are surprisingly difficult to work with. Now researchers in the UNC Department of Chemistry, including Ph.D. student John Brymer, above, report a new catalytic method that may finally make these abundant chemicals far easier to use. The post Simple Cobalt Catalyst Unlocks Hard-to-Use Chemical Building Blocks appeared first on Department o