Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Mechanical gating of a mechanochemical reaction cascade

  • Junpeng Wang,
  • Tatiana B. Kouznetsova,
  • Roman Boulatov,
  • Stephen L. Craig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13433
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Polymer mechanochemistry offers opportunities to control and engineer desired chemical transformations. Here, Craig and co-workers present a mechanical gating system whereby one mechanophore modulates the reactivity of another, resulting in a mechanochemical cascade reaction.