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Chapter 10

New Frontiers with Transition Metals

Transition metals play a significant role in drug discovery due to their powerful abilities to affect synthetic transformations and construction a vast array of bond formations. This chapter highlights recent interesting transformations in the transition metal driven reactions. The pharmaceutical industry's use of transition metal catalysts has been dominated by palladium and copper metals, but the focus will be on the use and application of iron, nickel, and cobalt catalyst.

Print publication date: 01 Aug 2016
Copyright year: 2016
Print ISBN: 978-1-84973-803-3
PDF eISBN: 978-1-78262-208-6
ePub eISBN: 978-1-78262-790-6
Citation:
From the book series:
Drug Discovery