‘It’s always exciting to see an old dog do new tricks,’ comments Laura Cunningham at the University of Galway who was not ...

The reaction between phosphorus ylides and carbonyl compounds was developed serendipitously by Georg Wittig and co-workers in 1953 (ref. 4), although the basic reaction had actually been ...

In the end, the synthesis path proved to be a new form of an established chemical process: the Wittig reaction, which was honored with a Nobel Prize in 1979. Now Kushik, a chemist from India and ...