reaction stopped by base-eating cannibals

Categories: Comparisons

An example of metaphor in science journalism:

"in the ortho lithiation of an S-trifluoromethyl sulfoximine-substituted benzene…the aggregates 'cannibalise' the base and stop it from reacting…A team…has now found various 'base-eating' aggregates."

Chemistry World

Katrina Krämer (2022) Mystery surrounding metalation reaction's reagent excess solved

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.