The chemistry of making more with less
Doug Stephan’s award-winning idea replaces precious-metal assumptions with a cleaner catalytic possibility.
Doug Stephan’s discovery of frustrated Lewis pairs challenged a basic habit of industrial chemistry: relying on rare metals to make useful molecules react.
The Davy Medal recognizes a body of work that could make catalysis less dependent on toxic or expensive materials. A twenty-year-old idea is still finding new rooms to enter.
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