• Question: What tools have you helped to develop, and why weren't the old ones suitable?

    Asked by hyellop01 to Akshat on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Akshat Rathi

      Akshat Rathi answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      I have developed a tool to add an oxygen and a nitrogen atom into a molecule simultaneously using an osmium catalyst. The old ones were not suitable because they did not work on my molecule.

      Being able to insert an oxygen and a nitrogen atom into a molecule is important because many medicines have those atoms in their chemical structure.

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