Study: “Goldilocks system” boosts efficiency of nickel-catalyzed reactions
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have published a paper on research that provides new details about the mechanism behind nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and the surprising discovery that acetonitrile and other alkyl nitriles boost product yield, which could benefit a whole range of these increasingly popular chemical transformations.