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SUBMITTER: McNally A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3266580 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20111101 6059
Serendipity has long been a welcome yet elusive phenomenon in the advancement of chemistry. We sought to exploit serendipity as a means of rapidly identifying unanticipated chemical transformations. By using a high-throughput, automated workflow and evaluating a large number of random reactions, we have discovered a photoredox-catalyzed C-H arylation reaction for the construction of benzylic amines, an important structural motif within pharmaceutical compounds that is not readily accessed via si ...[more]