What Industrial Chemists Want-Are Academics Giving It to Them?

This perspective describes the formation of strategic partnerships between our academic laboratory and researchers at three major chemical organizations (the Dow Chemical Company, Eli Lilly and Company, and Abbvie Pharmaceuticals) to address' fundamental aspects of Pd-mediated catalysis to prepare compounds of high importance to biomedical science. The paper chronicles the description of a synthetic problem, the evolution of the approach to solving this challenge, and the creation of methodologies and commercially available catalysts that not only are available to the teams mentioned herein but to all scientists worldwide.