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Carbon-nitrogen bond formation via catalytic alcohol activation
Yan, Tao
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Carbon-nitrogen bond formation via catalytic alcohol activation Tao Yan
1. “What is the role of science in all this? As an integral player in human development, science must help drive us toward a different future.” (Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 10260-10261)
2. “The need to develop highly efficient catalysts and related catalytic reactions is a never-ending challenge in synthetic chemistry.” (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016,
55, 5352-5353)
3. “While it is still too early to say definitively what such studies will reveal about the lowest kinetically relevant oxidation state accessed, if I were a gambling man I would not bet against Fe(I) being found to be the culprit in many processes. (Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 1485–1493)” -- If I were a gambling man I would not bet against anything.
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8. Stepping into your uncomfortable zone (slightly unfamiliar environment) is a fast way to improve yourself, as you can keep testing yourself under different conditions.
