Scientists identify new catalytic process to create pharmaceuticals with less chemical waste

Scientists identify new catalytic process to create pharmaceuticals with less chemical waste

I have read about co-operative catalysis (heterogeneous catalysts), but this is something interesting to me..

"Cooperative catalysis by carbens and Lewis acids in a highly stereoselective route to γ-lactams."

Ref : http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.727.html