In the realm of reactivity, the vinyl carbocation is a beast so fleeting, so keen to combine or rearrange, that many have doubted that it can be tamed to create molecules in a stereoselective way. But ...
It’s amazing what you can make out of brushed steel and carbon- just about anything. A simple element and yet so fundamental. The same chemist who helped on PS3.3 Oxygenic returned with a new ...