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US chemists debunk 100-year-old Bredt’s Rule to change organic chemistry forever


UCLA scientists just published a paper in the journal Science that disproves Bredt's rule, which has “constrained chemists for a century.”

UCLA scientists just published a paper in the journal Science that disproves Bredt’s rule, which has “constrained chemists for a century.” In the lab, UCLA chemists formed ABOs or anti-Bredt olefins by treating silyl (pseudo) halides with a fluoride source that brought about an elimination reaction. But this research comes from “a big push in the pharmaceutical industry to develop chemical reactions that give three-dimensional structures like ours because they can be used to discover new medicines.”

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