Lecture Background

2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Robert Grubbs, discusses how the availability of a catalyst that promotes scrambling of the fragments of a carbon-carbon double bond by a metathesis reaction has led to a variety of commercial applications including the production of tough polymers and highly functionalized pharmaceuticals.

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