Figure: Catalytic reductive ring opening of epoxides including derivatives of natural products (IMAGE)

Waseda University

Figure: Catalytic reductive ring opening of epoxides including derivatives of natural products

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A team of chemists from Waseda University, Japan, recently demonstrated a zirconocene-based photoredox catalysis reaction that enables a reductive ring opening of epoxides with a reversed regioselectivity compared to that for titanocene-mediated reactions.

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Junichiro Yamaguchi from Waseda University

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