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The microorganisms discovered by UCR scientists and their collaborators can cleave those stubborn fluorine-to-carbon bonds, they report July 17 in the journal Science Advances.

The synthesis of alkane hydrocarbons containing extremely long carbon–carbon (C–C) bonds, the longest observed in alkanes to date, is reported. Long C–C bonds are usually weaker than short ...

Rhodium-catalyzed carbon–hydrogen bond activation has attracted great interest in the construction of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds. In recent years, transition metal-mediated ...