A long-overlooked mode of catalysis is finally going asymmetric. Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was initially slow to gain traction among the organic community….

A long-overlooked mode of catalysis is finally going asymmetric. Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was initially slow to gain traction among the organic community….