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“Metathesis reactions are an important tool in the creation of new drugs to fight many of the world’s major diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer’s and AIDS,” William F. Carroll Jr., then president of the American Chemical Society, told the Los Angeles Times in 2005. “They also are used to develop herbicides, new polymers and fuels.”