A team of researchers from the University of Manchester and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has developed a reaction that uses light and two transition-metal catalysts to make anilines. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their process and how it can be used. Valerie Schmidt, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California San Diego, has published a News and Views piece in the same journal issue, outlining the importance of anilines and the work done by the team in the U.K.
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Source: Phys.org