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In a hurry to develop drugs? Here’s your cHAT – Phys.org
Let’s call it the Texas two-step, but for molecules.

Let’s call it the Texas two-step, but for molecules.
Rice University scientists have developed a method to reduce alkenes, molecules used to simplify synthesis, to more useful intermediates for drugs and other compounds via a dual-catalyst technique known as cooperative hydrogen atom transfer, or cHAT.
The process enables the hydrogenation of alkenes, hydrocarbons that contain a carbon-carbon double bond, in a simpler and more environmentally friendly way.
The work by Rice chemist Julian West and…
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