Crabtree - Science

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  • Crabtree's Bludgeon, a foil to Occam's Razor (law of parsimony)
  • Crabtree's catalyst, a complex of iridium with 1,5-cyclooctadiene, tris-cyclohexylphosphine and pyridine
  • Crabtree effect, a phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol aerobically in the presence of high external glucose concentrations rather than producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle

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