Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Imaging dynamic fingerprints of competing E2 and SN2 reactions

  • Eduardo Carrascosa,
  • Jennifer Meyer,
  • Jiaxu Zhang,
  • Martin Stei,
  • Tim Michaelsen,
  • William L. Hase,
  • Li Yang,
  • Roland Wester

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00065-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The competition between chemical reactions critically affects our natural environment and the synthesis of new materials. Here, the authors present an approach to directly image distinct fingerprints of essential organic reactions and monitor their competition as a function of steric substitution.