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China Homecoming– As funding grows, more Chinese chemists who have studied abroad are returning home to become professors

INVESTING Graduate student Zepeng Yang at work in You’s laboratory at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. Credit: Shuli You/ Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i23/China-Homecoming.html

Cram’s rule

The Cram’s rule of asymmetric induction developed by Donald J. Cram in 1952,  is an early concept relating to the prediction of stereochemistry in certain acyclic systems. In full the rule is: In certain non-catalytic reactions that diastereomer will predominate, which could be formed by the approach of the entering group from the least hindered side… Continue reading Cram’s rule