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Environmentally friendly chlorine method could revolutionize pharmaceutical and chemical production

Gram-scale synthesis and mechanistic studies. Credit: Nature Synthesis (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00698-z Chlorine plays an essential role in everyday life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of Rice University chemists has developed a more environmentally friendly way to incorporate chlorine into the chemical building blocks of pharmaceuticals, plastics, pesticides, and other essential products while reducing costs. The…