Violating Bredt’s rule: Chemists just broke a 100-year-old rule and say it’s time to rewrite the textbooks

Violating Bredt’s rule: Chemists just broke a 100-year-old rule and say it’s time to rewrite the textbooks

UCLA chemists have found a big problem with a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has been around for 100 years — it’s just not true. And they say: It’s time to rewrite the textbooks. Organic molecules, those made primarily of carbon, are characterized by having specific shapes and arrangements of atoms. Molecules known as … Read more