The selective production of a particular mirror-image form of a molecule is immensely important to organic synthesis. But techniques to find the right catalysts have traditionally been protracted and fiddly. Help is at hand.
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Hartwig, J. Recipes for excess. Nature 437, 487–488 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437487a
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