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Nickel catalyses a host of chemical reactions in a general method

A minimal but general method has been developed for catalysing many different cross-coupling reactions — those in which two chemical fragments are joined. It requires only the two substrate substances, a nickel salt as a catalyst precursor, a catalyst for light-driven redox reactions and, in some cases, a nitrogen-containing base.

This is a summary of: Ghosh, I. et al. General cross-coupling reactions with adaptive dynamic homogeneous catalysis. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06087-4 (2023).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01796-2

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