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Selective reaction of one alcohol among many in complex molecules can be achieved by the use of a catalyst that forms a single covalent bond to a nearby functional group.

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Figure 1: Catalytic approaches to site-selective functionalization of complex molecules.

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  1. André Beauchemin is in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada,
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Beauchemin, A. Exploiting intramolecularity.Nature Chem 5, 731–732 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1737

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