First post on Blue sky! Congratulations to graduate student Yorick Chiang and scientist Masa Ohashi on discovery of new copper dependent halogen from Nature @nature.com !
Many thanks to the wonderful collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Copper-dependent halogenase catalyses unactivated C−H bond functionalization - Nature
A halogenase enzyme uses the copper in its active site to catalyse iterative chlorinations on multiple unactivated carbon−hydrogen bonds, enabling carbon−hydrogen functionalization that is not achieva...
