The merger of transition metal and photocatalysis

Nature Reviews Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Twilton, Jack ^a   Le, Chi Chip ^a   Zhang, Patricia ^a   Shaw, Megan H ^a   Evans, Ryan W ^a   MacMillan, David W C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1038/s41570-017-0052     Document Type: Review

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