From oblivion into the limelight: iron (domino) catalysis.
Sleeping beauty? Is the scientific community about to kiss awake iron catalysis, a topic that has been dormant for decades? A recent study on a user-friendly direct cross-coupling reaction of alkyl and aryl halides constitutes an important step toward this end through the integration of two different iron-catalyzed elementary steps into a practical one-pot procedure.
Fürstner
Alois
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany. fuerstner@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de