Cheap and abundant chemical outperforms precious metals as a catalyst

A team of Caltech chemists has discovered a method for producing a group of silicon-containing organic chemicals without relying on expensive precious metal catalysts. Instead, the new technique uses as a catalyst a cheap, abundant chemical that is commonly found in chemistry labs around the world—p…

by José Lourenço via Facebook at February 04, 2015 at 08:59PM

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