For decades, chemists aspired to do controlled chemistry on carbon-hydrogen bonds, which are extremely strong. A new method to make an inert C-H bond reactive has just been published in Nature, which may change a cheap and abundant hydrocarbon into a valuable scaffold for developing new compounds.

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For decades, chemists aspired to do controlled chemistry on carbon-hydrogen bonds, which are extremely strong. A new method to make an inert C-H bond reactive has just been published in Nature, which may change a cheap and abundant hydrocarbon into a valuable scaffold for developing new compounds.