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Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate	Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules.
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Chemistry World July 2, 2012 Philip Ball	Imaging icons To celebrate the London 2012 Olympics, David Fox and Anish Mistry at the University of Warwick, UK, synthesised olympicene -- a polyaromatic hydrocarbon of five fused rings.
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