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However, these approaches struggle with alkyl halides due to the strength of the carbon–halogen bonds, says Fu, who led the work along with computational chemist Peng Liu, from the University of ...

Zhong et al. now extend the scope of deracemizations to alkyl halides — compounds that contain carbon–halogen bonds, in which the halogen atom is typically a chlorine or a bromine atom.