Making gamma chiral centers on simple carboxylic acids (IMAGE)

Scripps Research Institute

Making gamma chiral centers on simple carboxylic acids

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The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the “gamma” position on a cyclic carboxylic acid.

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