• Their solution allows the samarium diiodide reagent to, essentially, recycle itself for repeated use in a single reaction, which means large amounts of solvents and fresh preparations are no longer needed.

“Samarium diiodide has been used in academia for the synthesis of natural products like taxol, an anticancer agent, but the reagent is not practical for creating products like this on industrial scales,” says Reisman. “The breakthrough is that now we can translate some of these interesting reactions into process development or discovery.”

The samarium reagent has been limited to lab use due to a pesky samarium–oxygen bond that forms during the reactions and renders the chemical inactive. *

Was it homocide or natural causes?

makhana or lotus seeds