Decarboxylative Coupling Techniques

Abstract

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling … Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.(Henry Taube) 3.1