Researchers build up a basic strategy to make drug precursor Kumar Jeetendra | February 27, 2021 Save your silver! It’s better used for jewellery than as a catalyst for medication. Rice University scientists have developed a greatly simplified method to make fluoroketones, precursors for drug design and manufacture that typically demand a silver catalyst. Rice chemist Julian West and grad students Yen-Chu Lu and Helen Jordan introduced a procedure for the …
