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The cover picture shows a chiral dirhodium catalyst (octopus-like, with its eight hydrocarbon arms providing solubility in non-polar solvents), developed by chemists at Oxford, which effectively catalyses a new asymmetric process. Such catalysed cascade reactions, which rapidly generate molecular complexity in a controlled manner and with minimal waste byproducts, will provide efficient ways to make the materials required by society in the future. |