UCLA Chemists Just Broke a 100-Year-Old Rule and Say It's Time to Rewrite the Textbooks
November 01, 2024
November 01, 2024
LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of California issued the following news release:
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Key takeaways
* According to Bredt's rule, double bonds cannot exist at certain positions on organic molecules if the molecule's geometry deviates too far from what we learn in textbooks.
* This rule has constrained chemists for a century.
* A new paper in Science shows how to make molecules that violate Bredt's rule, a . . .
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Key takeaways
* According to Bredt's rule, double bonds cannot exist at certain positions on organic molecules if the molecule's geometry deviates too far from what we learn in textbooks.
* This rule has constrained chemists for a century.
* A new paper in Science shows how to make molecules that violate Bredt's rule, a . . .