Cheap and abundant chemical outperforms precious metals as a catalyst
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2015 - 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--potassium tert-butoxide--to help create a host of products ranging from new medicines to adv ... more

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