Gold is the current star of metal catalysis, but most gold catalysts cannot control which mirror-image version of a molecule forms during a reaction. The answer lies with the positive catalyst's negative counter-ion.
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Hashmi, A. Raising the gold standard. Nature 449, 292–293 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449292a
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