New Reaction Discovered

Michael Dalziel (MSc student cosupervision Evans-Snieckus) and Suneel Singh (postdoc) in the Snieckus laboratories have discovered a reaction that is effectively a molecular dance which allows a jump of a group from one position of the molecule to another. The reason for the excitement? For the group, because it is a new reaction; in practical terms, it will give pharmaceutical industry chemists a tool which will make life easier to make molecules of interest in drug discovery programs more efficiently and faster.