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| Whitesides crops up every year in these prediction discussions, but as you say appears he's too spread out for a Nobel prize.
Another guess: Pd-catalysed cross-coupling (Suzuki, Heck, Sonogashira, Negishi) | |
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Oh, my dear friends Suzuki and Miyaura ..... this week is converting into a trip down the memory lane, indeed. I had a teacher who used to terrify their students by asking to explain the mechanism of reaction reaction during the viva exams. It was such a great comfort to know you would have to repeat the exam even before walking into the room. Anyway, its still one of the best ways to get carbon-carbon bonds.