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Searching for new reactivity (Nobel lecture).

K. Sharpless

2002 · DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20020617)41:12<2024::AID-ANIE2024>3.0.CO;2-O
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The author and his co-workers developed small, highly enantioselective catalysts that were unfettered by the "lock-and-key" selectivity of Natures enzymes, and tolerant of substrates throughout the entire range of olefin substitution patterns.