A story nearly a decade in the making, here's a catalyst system, yours for the taking, tertiary alkyl amines should be shaking, catalytic C-N bond breaking and making! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Congrats to @mixalhsmpogdos.bsky.social, @sevenroediger.bsky.social, @fruepp.bsky.social, Patrick, Nathalie, Fabio on this epic study of the factors governing reductive elimination - using causal inference, organometallics, electrochemistry, kinetics and DFT @chemrxiv.bsky.social go.shr.lc/4j8O5MM

Metal Electronics Mediate Steric and Coordination Number Effects on Palladium (II) C–X Reductive Elimination

Reductive elimination is the key bond-forming elementary step in many transition metal catalyzed reactions relevant to the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, materials and fine chemicals. Metal electronics...

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Check out this recent report in @chimiajournal.bsky.social about the inaugural Chemistry Olympiad DACH-Event, where 22 students from the Chemistry Olympiads in Germany, Austria and Switzerland all came together for a weekend in Munich last year! #extracurriculareducaction doi.org/10.2533/chim...

Many Congrats to @ybraegger.bsky.social, Ann-Sophie Paschke, Nima Nasiri, Bence Botlik and Francesco Felician for this masterpiece! Oxidative amination by nitrogen atom insertion into carbon-carbon double bonds in Science, @ethzurich.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oxidative amination by nitrogen atom insertion into carbon-carbon double bonds

The synthesis of nitrogen-containing molecules through carbon–nitrogen (C–N) bond formation is critical for the discovery and preparation of medicines, agrochemicals, and materials. Here, we report th...

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