Wenzheng Fan is in the New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry ... that contain carbon–halogen bonds, in which the halogen atom is typically a ...

To further explore this mechanism, researchers turned to methyl halogens—organic molecules containing a carbon-hydrogen (CH₃) group bonded to a halogen atom, such as chlorine or bromine.

halogens, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur). Originally limited to the study of compounds produced by living organisms, organic chemistry has been broadened to include human-made substances (e.g., plastics ...